The ability to collect and analyze social data is essential to the functioning of states. However, governments that lack solid information about society cannot effectively implement public policies. Currently, public organizations in Chile collect vast volumes of data without being able to process, compile and analyze them effectively. That information is rarely made public in a way that allows citizens to make use of that data to evaluate the exercise of their rights and improve their quality of life.

There is, therefore, a great opportunity to apply innovative data management and analysis techniques to build a robust and scalable infrastructure that makes optimal use of the data captured by the government.

Given the scope and decentralized nature of such data, the development of such an infrastructure presents specific instantiation challenges, which are being addressed in parallel by other lines of research at our institute.

Therefore, in order to improve the state's capacity to design and implement public policies, we will apply the results of these lines of research to systematically generate, systematize, integrate and analyze data arising from processes, government agencies and other state sources.

One of the main challenges of our institute in this aspect will be the formation of a group of data experts specialized in these matters, who can work side by side with the Chilean state. And, in tune with the research areas of our institute, we will focus on: