Articulación y optimización de las diferentes herramientas tecnológicas e instrumentos de la inversión pública territorial en Colombia.

Abstract

Colombia is a country where advances in information technologies in strategic planning and in favor of development, have been implemented in the different territorial entities of the nation, from there, arises the great importance of functionality and contribution in the cycle of public management according to the different functions of each platform. The National Planning Department has as its mission "to coordinate, articulate and support the short, medium and long term planning of the country..." (Decree 2189, 2017, p. 2), therefore, they are in charge of routing different planning processes throughout the nation, with the need to have an improvement in the results, where a real social impact is evidenced, in favor of a greater welfare and a better quality of life, in the framework of strengthening to the management and territorial public finances. The DNP begins to have a greater appropriation and use of information technologies in the years 2016 to 2020, in the last year, a tool that sought to guide the territorial entities to formulate development plans in a virtual environment and with articulation to different data preloaded on the platform arises, which today has mishaps and inconsistencies in the information, which highlights the need for a reform and optimization of the platform, which articulates and provides greater benefit. This is a brief example of the need for greater efficiency and effectiveness in technological tools for planning in the country. Taking into account the guidelines and efforts regarding the use and appropriation of technology becomes vital for this work, which is why an approach is required to articulate some of the technological tools and instruments of territorial public investment. This need emerges mainly from the changes that the country is having in the implementation of the programmatic classification of public expenditure and different complementary classifiers in terms of Finance and Public Credit, which generate difficulties to align the new guidelines in the planning and budgeting processes; framed in the limited political, fiscal and operational capacity of the territorial entities and that generate high dependence on the central government guidelines causing instability in the decentralization model that is legally disclosed. Data culture, in terms of the recognition of economic and social value, is a weakness that is more marked in the sixth, fifth and fourth category municipalities, so in this section we will address the case of the municipalities Quetame, Fosca, Chaguaní, Ubaque, Vianí and San Cayetano, which have weak tax structures and a low capacity to generate their own resources that does not support the level of expenditure they assume, producing a deficit in the human capital specialized in this work. Therefore, we seek to develop a baseline that strengthens the exchange of data between public entities, specifically in public investment, with the intention of addressing some of the systems and instruments used by the Planning Department, through an analysis of their functionality and provide a proposal approach on the articulation of the same.