Digital Transformation for Economic and Social Reactivation

Each excelGOV edition allows for the recognition and systematization of the most transformative initiatives in this field carried out in Latin America and the Caribbean. The awards have their eighth iteration in 2022 and the process was open to the public presentation of applications for solutions in operation, at the national level (neither provincial nor municipal), in these two categories:

1- Cross-border digital services.

2 – Digital transformation.

Special mentions on (a) Open Data, (b) Gender Approach and (c) Emerging Technologies will be awarded amongst all candidates of the two categories.

Voting

Voting will take place during the VII Ministerial Meeting on Electronic Government of the Americas and the XVI Annual Meeting of Red Gealc (Lima, November 10th and 11th, 2022).  The jury, as usual, are the delegations participating in the VII Ministerial Meeting, with one vote per country (the decisions of the jury are final).

The tool for the jury to vote shall be enabled at the beginning of the event, on November 10th, and closed at the end of the agenda for that afternoon, with the awards being granted at the dinner that night.

The award-winning agency in each category will receive an all-expense paid, one-person Technical Mission to South Korea, financed by the IDB.  The winner of each special mention will be awarded a grant to a virtual course in the OAS Campus.

The candidates are detailed in this work material according to the information that they presented, so none of the announcing entities is responsible for the veracity or accuracy of the files provided by the candidates.

They appear in alphabetical order by country and were not necessarily presented by digital government agencies, since anyone could nominate a government solution that they considered to be outstanding.

In this edition

61 applications were submitted, and 58 of them met all the requirements to be analyzed by the Jury.

Five compete in the Cross-Border Digital Services category and 53 in the Digital Transformation category.

Regarding the special mentions, 15 applied for the mention in Open Data, 4 for Gender Approach, and 14 for Emerging Technologies.

17 countries submitted applications for this edition:

• Argentina (4)
• Bahamas (1)
• Barbados (1)
• Bolivia (3)
• Brazil (4)
• Chile (1)
• Colombia (1)
• Costa Rica (1)
• Ecuador (1)
• El Salvador (3)
• Jamaica (1)
• Panama (1)
• Paraguay (1)
• Peru (25)
• Dominican Republic (2)
• Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Uruguay (6)