Currently Colombia is pushing its "gobierno en linea" project, which corresponds to a consolidation of government processes with different technological tools to have an o-Gov maturity level (open government), seeking liberation and publication of the information generated in the public sector, allowing citizens to have access to this based on the paradigm of Open Data. With this type of paradigm must implement knowledge discovery process (KDP), for the purpose of enhance the data have been released and to facilitate their understanding by stakeholders, but this is not being taken into consideration in the Colombian model. Therefore, this article aims to explain the different elements that involve the use of KDP in national governance model, and the approach that should be given to this when working on public sector data.