The right to information enshrined in the constitution
The culmination of the transparency agenda was achieved with the constitutionalizing of the right to access information in 2007. Thereafter, a number of civil society organisations (CSOs) reoriented their actions towards a broader agenda of accountability and citizen participation. The Hewlett Foundation also responded to this shift in priorities by funding larger-scale projects working to exercise this fundamental right to access information among marginalized sectors of the population. One of the initiatives that answered to this change was the Red por la Rendición de Cuentas, which emerged in 2011 within CIDE, an academic institution financed by the Hewlett Foundation.
In the international sphere, the Mexican government was a founding member of the Open Government Partnership in 2011. Although the first actions towards an open government were made at the end of the Calderón administration, most were implemented during the next presidential term in 2012. Under the new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, the Open Government Technical Office was created to incorporate citizen participation in co-creation processes.
