The National Network of Observatories of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (RODHI) Nodo Huila received training from the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies in the area of Open Data.

The Caquetá-Huila Territorial Victims Unit as coordinating entity of the RODHI and coordinator of the National Information Network RNI; It provided training in Computer Tools and Open Data with the support of the Ministry of ICT and DANE.

The RODHI, node Huila, unique with a presence in the South of the Country, formed by the Sur-Colombian Observatory of Human Rights (OBSURDH), the observatories of institutions such as National Police, the Army, the Mayor's Office of Neiva, the Governorate of Huila and Attorney General's Office; actively participated in the day.

Open data refers to that information that was in the custody of public entities and is now available to citizens freely and without restrictions within the framework of Law 1712 of 2014 on Transparency and Access to Public Information, and politics of digital government that among other aspects intends the use and harnessing of ICT for decision-making based on data and the empowerment of citizens around digital trust. The national goal to 2022 in relation to the CONPES 3920 document that corresponds to the National Data Exploitation Policy is to go from 51% in 2017 to the average of public assets, digitized and published. According to MinTic, the country has a main tool, the National Data Portal: http://datos.gov.co with more than 1000 data sets, more than 1,100 publishing entities and more than 80 million visits.

Lucrecia Murcia Lozada, Territorial Director Caquetá-Huila, said that "the idea is that all technological tools and platforms that are open to the public, we know fully for the exchange of information flow".

The opening of data contributes to the visibility of realities; hence the importance of making responsible use of them and providing tools that allow entities to make available to third parties, information with a purpose that guarantees the institutional transparency required by law and society.

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