Towards the definition of a guide to publish open government

Several organizations interested in auditing public decisions and the use of resources have increased the pressure on governments to publish the data produced by its operations to improve transparency, governance and the interaction of citizens with institutions. The answer to these demands has been an increasing number of governments and institutions planning, designing and implementing data management and publication projects without enough knowledge of methodologies and experience to carry out the planning of this type of project. Therefore, many methodologies and architectures for the implementation of open government platforms have emerged, but there is still a need to have guidelines that combines management, political and technical aspects. Consequently, this paper proposes a project planning guide to carry out the preparation and publication of government data considering the main technical elements. The preparation of the guide was carried out using as base the evaluation of methodologies, standards and academic references on open government data management. The main contribution of the work is the guide and the description of the process that can be followed for publishing open data, taking into account both the technical and management aspects involved.