Open data, gender and violence in Latin America

This article focuses on the project entitled Estandarización de datos de femicidios (Standardisation of Data on Femicide). Firstly, we contextualise the current status of open data in Latin America. We then explain our hypothesis of how standardising data could help us improve data quality and, lastly, we reflect on our study. Standardisation (and the eventual release of data) is not some kind of magic wand; rather, it is a process that enables us to see the problem more clearly and reflect on the criteria used by government agencies to produce data.available at http://www.gencat.cat/eapc/epum/N7/pdf/EPuM7Fumega.pd