DR2028 analytical summary. This is a research brief prepared by the DR2028 movement. It is not an official publication.
What the OECD measures in public governance
The OECD's public governance work — through its Public Governance Reviews and the SIGMA principles (a joint OECD-EU initiative) — assesses states against practical standards: a professional and merit-based civil service, transparent policy-making, open government data, integrity frameworks for officials, and regulatory quality (laws that are clear, enforceable, and actually enforced).
The standards DR2028 adopts
- Merit civil service: recruitment and promotion on competence, not patronage — the backbone of our government-restructuring decrees.
- Open data by default: budgets, contracts, and performance published machine-readable — the premise of our digital-republic and transparency decrees.
- Regulatory enforcement: a rule unenforced is decoration. Our building-integrity, fire-safety, and construction decrees pair every standard with inspection and penalty regimes.
- Integrity systems: asset disclosure, conflict-of-interest rules, and whistleblower protection as permanent infrastructure, not campaign slogans.
DR2028 relevance
When DR2028 proposes a paperless government by 2030, a 21-to-7 ministry consolidation, or monthly construction inspections, the objection is always feasibility. The OECD standards answer it: these are not inventions — they are the documented operating procedures of the world's most transparent administrations, adapted to Dominican law.