ARTICLES
The value of transparency. Bringing Open Government closer to children.
Fco. Javier López Carvajal. Consultant. Vice-President of Acreditra. Secretary of the Official School of Political Science and Sociology in Murcia (Colegio Oficial de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la Región de Murcia). Transparency, as one of the central concepts...
Citizen participation in Andalusia in 10 “tips”.
Rafa Ayala. Consultant in Open Government models. Law 7/2017 of December 27 of Citizen Participation of Andalusia (LPCA) was published on January 5, 2018 in the BOJA (http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/boja/2018/4/BOJA18-004-00026 -19-01_00127491.pdf). It was born as a...
The implementation of transparency laws at local administrations in Catalonia.
Miquel Estapé Valls. Deputy Director – Strategy and innovation. AOC Consortium. The Consorcio Administración Abierta de Cataluña (AOC) [Catalonia Consortium for Open Administration] coordinated the introduction of the services to comply with local administration...
Student participation in school governance and operation.
Jordi Collado Llombart. Director of the Garbí Pere Vergés, Badalona. The Escola Garbí Pere Vergés in Badalona is a subsidised, secular, open and plural school with 870 students from year 3 infant to year 2 baccalaureate, with two streams. It forms part of the Fundació...
Who does the city belong to? An opportunity to transition from words to action.
Zulma Bolívar. Town Planner, Msc. Urban Design, Specialist in Strategic Urban Planning, Local Management and Development. Lecturer-researcher at the Central University of Venezuela, and President of the Instituto Metropolitano de Urbanismo [Metropolitan Institute of...
Consensus, persuasion, resources, patience, prudence and time: the fundamental ingredients of Good Governance.
Antxon Gallego Solaetxe. Ibatuz. Open government, Participation, New Technologies. Public administrations are faced with the challenge of integrating a new communications culture, an updated organisational model and deploying creative talent both within and without...
Children’s Councils – a good way to introduce citizen involvement.
Marta Contreras Teixidó. Project Manager at ATC-SIG. Municipal administration has undergone great changes recently and the most important one was possibly the passing of the Law on Transparency and Good Governance, which brought about a paradigm shift in...
A new public administration.
Paul Gurmendi. Tech For Society. Clearly there is a debate about the legitimacy of “yielding” decision-making power over certain aspects of public administration. Is it OK for a group of citizens, a collective or other body to decide about a specific matter through a...