Desarrollo de una aplicación móvil para evaluación de la calidad y transparencia de la información publicada por municipios del Ecuador

Abstract

This document describes the design and development process of a mobile computer application, which allows the evaluation and analysis of the information disseminated on the web pages managed by the municipalities of Ecuador, based on a series of indicators taken from the Mapa Infoparticipa project. These indicators make it possible to determine the compliance required by Ecuadorian laws regarding access to information published by state institutions, its transparency and availability to the public. The Java programming language was used to code the mobile application. The architecture, better known as REST API, was used for the transfer of state that allows requesting resources by the mobile application through HTTP requests; the GET method returns the query of all the evaluations per year and POST the record of new mayors, political parties, criteria and indicators in JSON format, a heuristic algorithm was used to determine the set of questions that should be assigned to each one of the criteria established in the evaluation process. The results achieved by each evaluation are published and georeferenced in the app.