About the project
About VerDat PIDA
VerDat PIDA gathers official public data from 17 Latin American countries — procurement, budgets, public employment, sanctions, and registers — and publishes it normalized, ready to query and cite.
What it is
It is a project of the VerDat PIDA program of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI). It catalogs official sources, normalizes them to stable schemas, and only publishes the layers that pass an explicit quality review.
Project financed with the funds awarded to the Fundación Verdat from the Competitive Fund of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) for cooperation projects that aim to contribute to democratic coexistence and social cohesion in Ibero-America by using the opportunities offered by digital transformation to advance ethical education and education in democratic values, and to promote, through education, inclusive, tolerant, diverse, plural and egalitarian societies, Ref. File No. OEI/FC25-26/004/DDHH.
The Inter-American Program on Open Data to Prevent and Combat Corruption (PIDA) is an initiative of the Organization of American States (OAS) created to promote public transparency through the use of open data.
What it offers
Regional indicators: comparable ECLAC, UNESCO and World Bank series for the 14 countries, each with the latest figure per country, its history and a download. Signals: verifiable findings calculated from official data, each with its chart, records, methodology, and limits. Entity profiles: the activity of an institution, company, or supplier under a stable key. A search that answers with indicators, sources, findings and entities; a builder for citable charts over the approved layers, and a quality page showing the state of every source.
Principles
Traceability: every figure links to its official source and a dated snapshot. Explicit limits: every finding publishes what it means and what it does not. Caution: a documentary pattern does not prove wrongdoing, and the text says so. Reproducibility: the queries, filters, and records behind a finding remain open so anyone can check it.
Contact and corrections
For institutional inquiries, press, or data corrections, contact the OEI through its official channels. If a source value changes or an error is detected, the editorial snapshot is reviewed and the correction is recorded.