To create the “Open Data Act of the Government of Puerto Rico” for the purpose of establishing as a principle of public policy free access to data that is originated, kept or received by government agencies and that can be used and reused freely; create the position of the Chief Data Officer and establish their powers and duties; transfer and clarify the responsibilities and duties of the Office of Management and Budget; establish the obligation of government bodies to publish their data public in a machine-readable format (“machine-readable”), through the Puerto Rico Open Data Interconnection Portal; establish the obligation of government agencies to update their official statistical indicators and to publish them through the Puerto Rico Indicator System, in accordance with the rules established by the Chief Data Officer; provide the Institute with the power to regulate the formats in which any government agency will store information and deliver data; provide that the Institute of Statistics will be the only governmental entity with the power to prepare any regulations related to the publication and updating of official statistics and indexes; and to repeal Act No. 69-2005.
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Date: November 3, 2025 P. del S. 820: To create the Puerto Rico Media and Digital Literacy Act to ensure that students in the public education system develop media and digital literacy skills that promote the responsible use of technology and artificial intelligence (AI), and strengthen citizen resilience to disinformation and digital manipulation; and for other related purposes.
To order each Puerto Rico Municipality to appoint, within a period not exceeding thirty (30) days, at least one official to collaborate and liaise with the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute in everything related to the planning, preparation and/or execution of the 2020 Census and other related programs of the United States Census Bureau; and for other related purposes
Fecha: 24 de febrero de 2017P. del S. 20: Para enmendar el Artículo 5 de la Ley 143-2014, “Ley del Protocolo para Garantizar la Comunicación Efectiva entre los Componentes de Seguridad del Estado Libre Asociado de PuertoRico y del Sistema de Información de Justicia Criminal”, para incluir al Director Ejecutivo del Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico como miembro del Comité Intergubernamental del Sistema de Información de Justicia Criminal; y para otros fines necesarios y relacionados.
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