The Jalisco State Government reaffirmed its commitment to CoST Jalisco’s data publication platform, in February 2025. This engagement supports institutional openness and accountability of the state’s infrastructure works during the 2024-2030 Administration.
The objective of Jalisco’s government is to optimise the use of public funds so that they are invested effectively in infrastructure projects. This helps to reduce inequalities, promotes development, protects and strengthens communities and future generations. The state of Jalisco committed to carrying out the work under the principles of transparency, integrity, technology, accountability, and social participation, consolidating CoST Jalisco programme.
Additionally, this endeavour seeks to unify efforts to build Jalisco’s infrastructure with responsibility towards the climate crisis, aligned with the following principles: sustainability, climate transformation, water conservation, and biodiversity protection.
The Governor of Jalisco, Pablo Lemus Navarro, highlighted that information on infrastructure projects worth a combined total of more than 23.9 billion pesos ($USD 113 millions) will be made accessible through the CoST Jalisco platform. This will allow citizens to access detailed information on the use of the state budget. As part of the dissemination process, information on strategic transport projects such as the Light Rail Line 5, Camino Real to Colima, the State Highway Network, and various metropolitan projects will be published. The Governor also announced he will present an initiative to reform Jalisco’s Public Works Law to provide open infrastructure management process with citizen trust.
As part of his commitment to transparency, Governor Lemus Navarro also announced a consultation to develop a new transparency and accountability initiative law. This law will apply to all authorities and aims to guarantee access to information and public resources oversight. This is a response to the elimination of autonomous agencies such as the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information, and Personal Data Protection (INAI) and Jalisco’s Institute for Transparency, Public Information, and Personal Data Protection (ITEI), announced by the Federal Government on December 2024.
Lemus Navarro stated that this initiative must be ready before May, when the elimination of autonomous agencies becomes mandatory. To develop this new law, a broad consultation will be held with civil society groups, legislators, mayors, universities and academics to ensure the proposed law is as successful as possible.
“We want everyone to participate in a social initiative, and for Jalisco, to send the message that here, the use of public resources is transparent and accountable to society,” affirmed the Governor.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Planning and Citizen Participation, Cynthia Patricia Cantero Pacheco, gave more detail on the projects that Jalisco’s Government will include on the data platform. This includes projects from the Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP), decentralized executive power agencies such as the State Educational Infrastructure (INFEJAL) and the State Water Commission (CEA). Alongside the municipalities of Guadalajara, Zapopan, and Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, more than 50 municipalities in Mexico have expressed their interest in CoST. 
“We seek to protect the heritage and quality of life of all state inhabitants, incorporating new authorities in a collective inter-institutional commitment to integrate into CoST Jalisco and its institutional data standard to strengthen citizens’ trust in their governments,” concluded Cantero Pacheco.
With these actions, CoST Jalisco reinforces its leadership in transparency, accountability and participation in public infrastructure, setting a precedent for the rest of the country.