From 2010 to 2025, this page listed the 42 member organizations of the Red de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (RTA)—transparency authorities, ombudsmen offices, and access-to-information agencies across 18 Latin American countries. Those 42 organizations shared challenges: managing millions of documents, responding to thousands of citizen information requests, processing archival backlogs, and demonstrating transparency…

I still remember visiting a government archive in 2018. The archivists were drowning in work—thousands of boxes waiting to be processed, years-long backlogs, and citizen requests they couldn’t fulfill because they literally didn’t know what documents they had. They had the RTA’s archive management model printed and sitting on a shelf. “It’s excellent guidance,” the…

In March 2015, something significant happened in the world of government transparency. The Red de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (RTA) launched mgd.redrta.org, introducing the Modelo de Gestión Documental (MGD)—a comprehensive framework for managing government documents across Latin America. At the time, it was revolutionary. For the first time, 42 government transparency authorities across…