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?Driving a Culture of Open Government in Latin America?Susana FinquelievichAbstractThe paper´s main hypothesis is that in the Latin America of the XXIst Century Don Quixote would have to fight against a double set of windmills: the concentration, regulation and sustainability issues, which are the biggest challenges for media in Latin America (Mioli, 2016), and the insufficiency of interest in LA governments for the disclosure of key information through Open Government (Finquelievich, 2016). Consequently, citizens and communities are not aware of the information they can use or the advantages they could get by using Open Government services and by demanding to their governments to disclose the information they need.The main questions addressed in this work are: Which are citizens demands regarding Open Government (OG)? How can they benefit from Open Government? How can media and information literacy (MIL) contribute to create a culture of OG, particularly in the case of Latin America? Do Latin American citizens fully understand the potentials, scopes, benefits and risks of electronic government, Open Data, Open Government?Most of the available literature concerning Open Government is addressed to governments. We have found that there is a scarcity of literature addressed to citizens on this issue. Responding to the scarcity of works regarding citizens? participation in Open Government, this paper is dedicated to contribute to create a culture of OP in Latin America, so that citizens, individually or as community organizations, will be better prepared to participate in OG and to drive benefits from it. Media and information literacy competencies provide citizens in the 21st century with the abilities to participate rationally and effectively with media and information and develop critical thinking and life-long learning skills to socialize and become active citizens

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