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Inculcate the culture of transparency and raise public awareness on access to information públicason some of the goals by betting the City of Cartagena.

On the occasion of the International Right to Know Day, the Office of Transparency Portal and the council has organized various events in the city to encourage citizen participation in access to public information.

The first act of this International Day for the Right to Know took place this morning at the San Sebastian Plaza, where the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, and the Councillor for Transparency, Maria Jose Soler, have addressed a few words to citizens and visitors reporting the goal of making a municipality accessible and transparent for all citizens by encouraging participation.

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, write your questions papers and placing them in a mural.

At the end of the day, these requests for statistical demands of citizens will be collected, as reported by Transparency Councilwoman Maria Jose Soler.

In addition, 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.

In this event, has also been informed citizens of 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 public entities 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.

Lopez also recalled the commitment of the Local Government transparency through actions such as the creation of the Office and Transparency Portal or training courses that public employees have made on this subject.

The Mayor has used the event to praise the work of Transparency Councilwoman Maria Jose Soler.

For its part, Soler has indicated its commitment to serve the citizens and address their complaints and preocupaciones.Estamos at the beginning of a work that tries to approach and involve citizens in municipal governance and we must continue betting on it , he added the councilor, inviting citizens to join the activities taking place throughout the day.

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.

ROUND TABLE

The day of the International Right to Know Day will continue with the celebration of the Round Table the 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.

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 of transparency Acreditra, 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 Arroyas.

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 overall unaestrategia open government that includes transparency, citizen participation and encouraging participation abiertos.Seguiremos data, the search for consensus and the involvement of more social agents.

Transparent continue building a Cartagena.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena