IDB Expands Digital Solutions to Strengthen Transparency in Latin America and Caribbean

• Dominican Republic launches InvestmentMap 2.0, the new version of the IDB's regional initiative for budget traceability  

WASHINGTON — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) reaffirms its leadership in the regional agenda for transparency, integrity, and the fight against corruption with significant advances that strengthen public access to information and accountability in Latin America and the Caribbean. Under the umbrella of InvestmentMap, the regional initiative for active transparency and traceability of budgets, investments, and public procurement, the IDB supports national and subnational governments in building digital ecosystems that allow citizens to understand, monitor, and oversee the use of public resources in real time.

On the International Anti-Corruption Day, the platform reaches a new milestone: the launch of InvestmentMap 2.0 in the Dominican Republic, which includes innovative functionalities based on principles of interoperability, open-source code, and the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to facilitate data access. This advancement positions the region as a global benchmark in leveraging new technologies to strengthen transparency and public integrity in public finance management.

The Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Dominican Republic, together with the IDB, unveiled MapaInversiones 2.0, a renewed platform that, for the first time, interoperably integrates budgetary, programming, financial execution, physical progress, and contractual process data. This effort reflects sustained work on institutional strengthening and public spending traceability, supported by the IDB, enabling an articulated view of the complete cycle of public resources.

The new version of InvestmentMap incorporates AI components to enhance citizen monitoring, along with improvements in data quality, governance, and accessibility. These advances align with internationally recognized frameworks, including the United Nations Convention against Corruption, UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, and OECD recommendations on public integrity, open government, public procurement, and responsible AI use.

Paula Acosta, chief of the Institutional Capacity of the State Division at the IDB, said: “The new version of InvestmentMap in the Dominican Republic not only facilitates access to information but also optimizes processes, improves databases, and strengthens traceability, offering citizens cutting-edge technological innovations to consult, monitor, and interact with the State in a simple way.”

Developed by the IDB as a regional digital public good, InvestmentMap now features a new chatbot that brings a new standard for access to public information by allowing citizens to ask questions in natural language and receive answers based exclusively on official public investment data.

The tool incorporates an algorithmic transparency mechanism through a chatbot that reveals the reasoning behind each response, strengthening trust and enabling independent verification. In this first stage, the assistant works with information from the National Public Investment System (SNIP) and answers key questions about projects, approved amounts, physical progress, execution, and territorial distribution of public investment.

With this launch, the IDB consolidates the evolution of InvestmentMap toward a regional ecosystem of smart transparency, where interoperability, data quality, citizen participation, and responsible AI use become key tools.