Transparency for the People
🇲🇽 An expert in transparency and access to information will head Transparency for the People, the new Executive Branch body that will assume some of the functions of the now-defunct INAI.
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María Tanivet Ramos Reyes has been appointed chief of Transparency for the People, a newly created agency that will be responsible for ensuring transparency within the federal government, Rafael Montes reported for Milenio.
Tanivet Ramos’s appointment was announced yesterday at the conclusion of the transfer of functions from Inai, Mexico’s former transparency and privacy agency, to the Secretariat for Anti-Corruption and Good Governance. (SABG)
Julio César Martínez Sanabria will head the Directorate General for Appeals and Complaints, one of the seven directorates of this decentralized administrative body under Good Governance, Montes added. (Regulation in the DOF)
👁️ Transparency for the People is part of Mexico’s new transparency and privacy framework. (Economicón)
The new model dissolves Inai as a collegial and independent body and transfers its functions to a ministry subordinate to President Sheinbaum, along with a constellation of federal authorities. (Economicón)
👩🏽💻 Why it matters: The government’s roadmap called first for selecting the head of Transparency for the People, followed by the appointment of new privacy authorities. (Economicón)
👤 The protection of personal data is a fundamental right for the 21st century and, under Mexico’s new paradigm, will also be overseen by Good Governance. (Economicón)
Tanivet Ramos worked for eight years at the transparency agency in Oaxaca as an advisor, consultant, technical secretary, and finally, in October 2021, was appointed commissioner for a five-year term that she did not complete.
🚚 She resigned in November 2024 to move to Mexico City and join Good Governance as Director General of Transparency and Open Government.
She holds a degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Ibero Puebla—an institution that congratulated her yesterday—and completed an online master’s degree in Equality and Equity in Development from the UNESCO Chair program. (C.V.)
She is 43 years old, served on the editorial board of Dossier Político magazine, and is the founder of the civil association Nuevas estrategias de Comunicación por la Igualdad. She has also worked as a university professor. (INE)
“I trust she will do a good job,” a source told me about Ramos, describing her as a technical and professional person—meaning, in the world of transparency experts, that she knows the law, knows how to apply it, and perhaps most importantly, understands the work Inai did and how it interpreted the law.
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I’m José Soto Galindo, a journalist. I was Director of Media at INAI, the national transparency and privacy agency of Mexico. I led El Economista online from 2010 to 2024, and before that, I was a news editor at Público-Milenio (2001-2009). I hold a Master’s degree in Transparency and Personal Data Protection and have specializations in telecommunications law and information technology law. I teach journalism at the Universidad de Guadalajara.