text: information has not been updated in years, or omits key data like (in the case of budget reports) 
  
  *"descriptions of how the money was spent"*. 
  
  Even with these difficulties, the Latin America Open Data/Civic Information landscape is active 
  
  and definitely worthwhile following. The list of interesting Civic Information projects in Latin 
  
  America include (from Sasaki's Access to Information: Is Mexico a Model for the Rest of the 
  
  World?: 
  
  • Mexico 
  
  • Mexican Farm Subsidies   - an online tool to analyze how the federal government 
  
  allocates those subsidies 
  
  • Compare Your School   : compares aggregate test results from any school with the 
  
  municipal, regional, and national averages 
  
  • Rebellion of the Sick   built for patients with chronic diseases whose expenses are not 
  
  covered by the government subsidized health coverage. 
  
  • Argentina: Public Spending in Bahía analyzes how public funds are used. 
  
  • Colombia: Visible Congress monitors the actions of the Colombian congress 
  
  • Brazil 
  
  • Eleitor 2010   : a website to submit reports of electoral fraud during the Brazil 2010 
  
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  *Copyright 2011 LEM, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. This work is released under a Creative Commons attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)*