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Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Catálogo Cultural SRE

Content
Mexico
2016-2018
Digital
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Context

Bringing Mexico's cultural richness to the entire world

Mexico is a country with a great diplomatic tradition and a historically high-performing foreign service, which has allowed us to establish ties with 193 countries worldwide and maintain 150 representations: 81 embassies, 67 consulates (50 of them in the United States alone), and 7 permanent missions.

There is no doubt that Mexico’s ties with the outside world are not strictly political, but are also bonds of friendship, fueled largely by our country’s history and cultural richness.

Objective

To create a digital tool to disseminate Mexico's vast cultural offerings and information worldwide through its diplomatic representations in an accessible, organized, low-cost manner that could be updated in real time.

Challenge

Our country has such a wide cultural spectrum that communicating it abroad had become a complicated and disorganized task. The production of the printed cultural promotion catalog took six months, plus the delivery time to the representations, and it was updated annually. How could we create a more agile and organized way to communicate our culture to the world?
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The Idea

In conjunction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID), we launched the Cultural Promotion Program, which operates through a web platform where the country’s cultural information is digitized, updated, and distributed in real time. Once updated, this information can be consulted worldwide and programmed immediately.

Catálogo Cultural SRE

All of Mexico's cultural information in one place.

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Results

+1,300 users

The platform is used by more than 1,300 registered users from the Mexican Foreign Service staff.

Budget effectiveness

An effectiveness of over 300% was achieved in the allocation and utilization of the cultural budget across all diplomatic representations, including savings in operating and administrative costs of more than 40% compared to previous years.

High information flow

Weekly update and exchange of approximately 100 documents on average, equivalent to nearly 500 GB of monthly information.

Platform usage

The platform has an average daily traffic of 378 users with a browsing time of 43 minutes.

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