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Call for proposals: digital tools in open code for subnational tax administration

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Do you know of digital tools that can improve tax administration? This is your opportunity to share them and support development of our region!

We are seeking new digital tools that allow subnational governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to improve their tax administration. We aim to take advantage of and promote the potential of open code for supporting the development of technological tools of rapid adoption suitable for improving tax administration by subnational governments of LAC.

If you know of an open code digital tool that serves this purpose, participate in this call for proposals entering our site through  this page. The Terms and Conditions of the Call for Proposals are available here.

The tools selected will be published on the Code for Development Platform of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to put them at the disposal of any subnational government interested in improving its tax administration. In addition, the three tools selected with the highest scores will be presented in a workshop about digital tools for subnational tax administration to be held April 4 and 5, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

What is the challenge we want to resolve with your open code digital tool?

The growing importance of subnational governments highlights the need for strengthening public administration, especially management of taxes. The adoption of new information and communication technology (ICT) can help resolve deficiencies in subnational tax administration, enabling the updating of land registries, online tax payments, supervision and accountability of accounts and transparency in the use of resources.

In this context, several national entities that support modernization of subnational administration have shown their interest in broadening their supply of digital tools that contribute to better tax collection at the local level. In particular, there is significant demand for open code digital tools that contribute to generating fiscal resources for subnational governments and that let them strengthen the relationship between taxation and services for citizens.

How to participate in the Call for Proposals

The IDB is calling for nominations from organizations or governments that have developed or utilize open code digital tools that facilitate tax administration of subnational governments.

If you want to participate, this is what you need to do:

  1. Identify an open code digital tool for subnational tax administration (read the Guide for Publishing Digital Tools). It is not necessary that you be the developer or user of the digital tool to nominate it.
  2. Go to the Code for Development page and nominate that digital tool by Sunday March 4 at 11:59 pm, Eastern Standard Time in Washington, D.C., United States. The Terms and Conditions of the Call for Proposals are available here.
  3. Share this call for proposals to spread the word to the greatest number of people possible.

Once the nominations have been received, we will evaluate them taking into account their technological content and their content related to tax administration. As indicated previously, and based on this evaluation, the tools to be included on the Code for Development Platform of the IDB will be selected. In addition, the representatives of the three tools that receive the highest scores will be invited to a knowledge sharing workshop at the IDB.

During this exchange, representatives of the participating entities, developers of tools and specialists of the IDB will have the opportunity to become familiar with the experiences and practices related to subnational tax administration and to plan development of the project, “Digital Solutions for Local Taxation”. The workshop will be held in Washington, D.C., on April 4 and 5, 2018.

Don’t miss this opportunity! Your digital tool can make a difference in the development of LAC.


Huáscar Eguino

Huáscar Eguino is a Senior Consultant in the Fiscal Management Division of the IDB. He is an economist specialized in fiscal policies and climate change, subnational public finance, and public investment management. During his more than 20 years of experience as an IDB specialist, he worked directly with 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, advised more than 75 subnational governments, and coordinated the development of two emerging issues at the IDB: fiscal policy and climate change and subnational fiscal management. Currently, he works as a consultant providing advice and supporting the development of financial and knowledge products on fiscal policy and climate change matters. He holds a master’s degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies of the University of Rotterdam, and postgraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of the Andes. In addition, he holds more than 10 professional certifications in fiscal policy and climate change and public finance. He is (co-)author of more than 20 publications in the IDB that have exceeded more than 120 thousand downloads.

Kyle Strand

Kyle Strand is Lead Knowledge Management Specialist and Head of the Felipe Herrera Library in the Knowledge, Innovation and Communication Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). For more than a decade, his work has focused on initiatives to improve access to knowledge both at the Bank and in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Kyle designed the first open repository of knowledge products at the IDB and spearheaded the idea of software as a knowledge product to be reused and adapted for development purposes, which led the IDB to become the first multilateral to formally recognize it as such. Currently, Kyle coordinates library services within the organization, supports the open knowledge product lifecycle including publications and open data, and promotes the use of artificial intelligence and natural language processing as a cornerstone of knowledge management in the digital age. Kyle is also executive editor of Abierto al Público, a blog in Spanish that promotes the opening and reuse of knowledge. He has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from the George Washington University.

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