Public communication of the City of Cartagena meets 100% of the indicators of quality and transparency as attested by the Seal Infoparticipa distinguishes the city as the only municipality of the Region of Murcia that meets these standards.
The Consistory was awarded this distinction last Friday, October 21;
with the important work that has been done from the Department in the interests of transparency, making partners with neighbors everyday administration and by facilitating access to public information it is demonstrated.
The mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, accompanied by the delegate of Portal and Transparency Office, José María Soler mayor;
have been responsible to disclose these results to the media today, 25 October, in the press room of the Town Hall.
The mayor has expressed its willingness to end a remote administration of the citizen and determinedly work opaque and transparency.
To do this, according to Lopez, the Department of Office Transparency Portal and born with the firm intention to promote, expand and reinforce transparency in municipal public activities created;
and to guarantee the right of access to public information and good governance.
In addition, Lopez highlighted the work and good management of the City Council technicians and councilors has been fundamental to Cartagena is the only municipality of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia in getting one hundred percent rates Transparency.
For his part, José María Soler, has shown its intention to renew the commitment of the Department of Office Transparency Portal and the Cartagena neighbors to further enhance political, which according to Soler, has led us to obtain this distinction.
Councilwoman Transparency Portal and Office highlighted the qualitative leap that has given the administration in a little over a year, from July 2015 until now, have gone to meet 73.1% of the indicators until the 100%.
This jump is the most complex because it affects the most sensitive and less interesting information disseminated to the traditional politician.
According Soler 73% corresponds to what the law requires and has now gone beyond making public other matters as minor contracts.
The mayor conveyed that this government, with its new Transparency Department, has faced 52 indicators, eleven more than the previous year, achieving meet them all.
INFOPARTICIPA
The Infoparticipa awards are a product of the Laboratory of Journalism and Communication Plural Citizenship (LPCCP) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona to reward the quality and transparency of public communication.
InfoParticipa, has established itself since 2012 as a tool to promote transparency and quality of information from local authorities, the hand of experts from across Spain.
CARTAGENA CITY TRANSPARENT
Finally, Maria Jose Soler, said the actions it has carried out its council in recent months, since the creation of the Transparency Portal, to the dissemination of participatory budgeting where each of the citizens and groups of Cartagena will decide which can improve the services that the city provides to society through the municipal budget each year.
One of the last activities that has driven the Cartagena City is transparent competition aimed at primary schools and secondary to express their point of view from what they mean by transparency.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena