Human Right of Access to Public Information: reflections on the budget of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Abstract

The objective of the article is to reflect on recent changes around the human right of access to information at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM). These changes are reviewed based on the analysis of the university budget and the remunerations of its executive managers. It is important to emphasize that this study is possible, thanks to the information available in the portal of transparency of the UAM. Undoubtedly, the opening of this portal within the Systems of Portals of the inai represented an important advance in relation to the mentioned human right, but there are still pending, particularly in the information about the institution’s budget. The approved budget is not presented in an open data format, and the budget exercised is in a very general classification (expenditure chapter): therefore it is not possible to compare the approved budget with the one exercised. The foregoing generates opacity, because in the end it is not known in a specific and clear way how the public resources were spent in the UAM.