Transparency Office

Presentation

Managing transparency institutional actions development, information access and personal data protection by coordinating and implementing strategies, guidelines and procedures to assure community members and citizenry their information rights and personal data protection by the University; according to Transparency National System regulations.

Dr. Diego Daniel Cárdenas de la O.

Transparency Office Head

Telephones: 5554834000 ext. 1587 and 1588
Email: transparencia@correo.uam.mx

MTRO. DIEGO DANIEL CÁRDENAS DE LA O.

Biographical Note

He studied Laws at “Centro Universitario Continental”, a Master’s Degree on Applied Public Governance and Regional Development Prospective at “Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)”, and a Ph.D. in Public Policies at “Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo”.

He is a specialist on Transparency matters, information access, personal data protection, document management, open governance, human rights and public administration. He worked at Transparency Institute, Government Public Information Access and Personal Data Protection in the state of Hidalgo for 12 years, where he collaborated in legal, administrative, planning, coordination, and social communication areas as well as a dispatch coordinator for the President Commissioner.

He has taken specialization diplomas, seminars, and courses at “OEA”, “CIDE”, Accountability Report Net, US Agency for International Development (USAID), “La Universidad Michoacana in San Nicolás Hidalgo”, ITESM, the National Institute for Transparency. Information Access and Personal Data Protection, and the Nation’s Supreme Court of Justice.

While working at the Transparency Organ in Hidalgo, he reconciled the legal framework and the institutional planning instruments; he also designed the access, classification, and information reserve procedures to comply with the transparency reform in 2014. He adhered the Institution to the National System for Transparency and supervised the institutional transition to the General Laws for Transparency. He implemented training actions for public servants and for the dissemination to educational institutions. He was appointed as a liaison for the implementation for the National Program for Transparency and Personal Data Protection as well as for the Transparency Metrics developed by “CIDE” in 2014.

Academically, he has contributed to the education of professionals at “Universidad de las Américas Puebla”, and he has been invited by the Political Analysis Argentinian Society and Saint Martin’s National University in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to talk in the XIV Political Science National Congress about Information Access. The Nation’s Supreme Court of Justice, through the Houses of Legal Culture General Office, called him to participate in encounters to promote human rights, and to emphasize handicapped people’s rights as well as to discuss the protocols to follow by people imparting justice. He has been in charge of UAM’s office for Transparency since September 1, 2021.

Purpose

Conducting institutional actions development for transparency, information access, and personal data protection by coordinating and implementing strategies, guidelines, and procedures to assure community members and citizenry their rights to information access and personal data protection as far as the university obligations and what is stated in the National System for Transparency and the current regulations.

Assignment

Making sure there are the necessary mechanisms so that the different “Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana” agencies provide the information generated, obtained, acquired, transformed, or that is in their possession to guarantee public information access, to promote the correct use of personal data they possess, and to give the correct service according to their competence. Furthermore, they have to guarantee any person the right to information access by providing an effective and efficient answer with information that is appropriate, verifiable, easy to understand, accurate, updated and complete so that it contributes to a transparency culture and to an accountability report which follows equity, excellence, integrity, neutrality, legality, responsibility and veracity values.

Perspective

Being the strategic instance that promotes actions that make transparency and accountability report intrinsic qualities in the University. This will be achieved by activities that make possible fundamental rights to information access and personal data protection according to simple administrative processes that allow a kind interaction with other university dependencies and general society to construct the Rule of Law.

Web Sites

UAM Transparency
https://transparencia.uam.mx/

Personal Data Protection
https://datospersonales.uam.mx/

Social Comptroller
https://transparencia.uam.mx/contraloriasocial/