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The City of Cartagena adds, on Wednesday 28 September, the International Day of the Right to Know.

To this end, the Department of Office Transparency Portal and directed by María José Soler has organized a program of activities to raise awareness and inform citizens of their right of access to public information.

The International Right to Know Day is commemorated since 2002, when civil society organizations and activists from around the world gathered in the Bulgarian city of Sofia to create an international network to define defense strategies and dissemination of the right of access to information.

SEPTEMBER 28, INTERNATIONAL DAY RIGHT TO KNOW

Cartagena commemorate this day with the realization of a set of activities that will start on Wednesday morning in the Plaza de San Sebastián.

So, at 10:30 am, the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez and Maria Jose Soler attend this central enclave to certify officially the start of an initiative aimed at the participation of citizens.

Thus, throughout the morning, neighbors who so wish may approach the Plaza de San Sebastian to contribute their ideas optimization in the process of access to public information.

For this, a muralque recepcionar serve to requests for information from citizens will be installed.

In addition, throughout the morning explanatory leaflets will be distributed, including Quick Guide for exercising the right to information, a document addressed to the neighbors to facilitate the necessary measures to exercise the right of access to information tools.

Also, citizens will know some of the main data contained in the Portal Municipal Transparency, by exposing various advertising media.

CARTAGENA AWARDS 'TRANSPARENCY'

On the other hand, Lopez Soler inform the first edition of the Cartagena awards Transparency, some awards that recognize the work of those groups that are meant for their proposals in the defense and establishment of transparency in their private institutions and entities of law public of the municipality.

This initiative will also be extended to the field of education, as students of primary and secondary schools in the municipality may submit papers that will focus on the importance of transparency in administration in democracy.

ROUND TABLE

On Wednesday, the day will continue with the celebration of the Roundtable Transparency and access to information.

Perspectives from the local level, to be held in the Auditorium of the Museum of the Roman Theatre, at 18:00.

He moderated by the consultant and secretary of the College of Political Science and Sociology of the region, Francisco Javier López Carvajal, will managerialism interventions lawyer and secretary of the association transparenciaAcreditra, Juan Carlos Melian Garcia;

political scientist and editor of Transparency in Spain, Rafael Camacho, and member of the research group Infoparticipa in the region, Enrique Arrollas.

CARTAGENA TRANSPARENT

The implementation of these activities demonstrates the will of the municipal government to establish transparency as one of its cornerstones.

This commitment has been reflected in several measures such as the implementation of Municipal Transparency Portal;

the training of public employees in transparency;

joining the Network of Local Authorities for Transparency and Citizen Participation of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP);

as well as the Code of Good Local Government of the FEMP, in addition to signing the Decalogue of Good Practices of Local Public Communication.

Beyond concrete actions, the Department of Portal and Accountability Office, headed by Maria Jose Soler, symbolizes the way of understanding the political management of municipal government whose aim is to promote transparency and local participation, while maintaining a dynamic review of compliance with existing regulations and constant self-evaluation transparency.

To Soler, you can govern in many ways.

We have chosen one that sets us apart.

We have defined a global strategy for open government that includes transparency, citizen participation and open data.

We will continue encouraging participation, consensus-building and involvement of as many social agents.

Cartagena continue building a transparent, concluded the mayor.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena