National water data platform for Mexico, part of CONAHCYT’s PRONACES program and its Digital Ecosystems program. It was launched at the initiative of FLACSO as a transdisciplinary project to gather water information scattered across government, universities, businesses, and NGOs. I took part as Product Manager at Karmapulse, as a private consultant, not as a researcher.
The initial research identified three main users: the government employee, the activist, and the researcher, each with distinct data needs.
Site: https://agua.conahcyt.mx/cuencas/
What I did
- Synthesized more than 40 heterogeneous datasets and defined data schemas
- Facilitated collaboration among more than 50 stakeholders (government, activists, academics, business owners) and managed their conflicting priorities
- Led qualitative accessibility research (usability testing, contextual inquiry) across diverse data literacy contexts
- Facilitated Design Thinking alignment exercises to keep the focus on outcomes, not features
- Developed a public product communication strategy: public changelog, feature documents, video tours, brochures, presentations, and tutorials
- Implemented a compliance strategy to meet government technical, privacy, and transparency policies
Results
- Almost 1 million data records on the platform at launch
- More than 30 integrated data collections (documents, geographic data, social indicators)
- 20% more features than originally planned
- Each version completed within 90% of the planned timeline
- More than 20 merge requests to SISDAI, the open source UI library required by the government