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- According to the councilor of the Orange Formation in Cartagena, Ana Rama, "it has been more than a year since we drew attention to this issue, and in all that time many of our members have continued to move their complaints for the misuse of these Tools of communication on the part of their holders, whose publications sometimes have a unique and exclusively partisan interest lacking the due neutrality and impartiality that must prevail in these electronic spaces, and other times they express personal opinions that have nothing to do with the work of board".

Cartagena, Monday, August 28.

The Municipal Citizens' Group in Cartagena asked the local Executive in June 2016 if there was any kind of protocol for the administration of profiles on social networks of the Municipal Neighborhood Boards, both on Twitter and Facebook, which people managed those profiles and with What criteria.

The Councilor for the Department of the Treasury and Interior, Francisco Aznar, responded that the accounts opened by the Neighborhood Boards "are not official," and that "each board has opened the one it has wanted without the City Hall and in this case with the Center Of Data Processing (CPD) ".

In addition, in that plenary session, Francisco Aznar acknowledged the need to prepare a regulation to regulate rules of use to avoid misuse of these channels of information and ensure the principles of equanimity, and representativeness.

According to the councilor of the orange formation in Cartagena, Ana Rama, "it has been more than a year since we drew attention to this issue, and in all that time many of our members have continued to move their complaints for the misuse of these tools Of communication by their holders, whose publications sometimes have a unique and exclusively partisan interest lacking the due neutrality and impartiality that must prevail in these electronic spaces, and other times they express personal opinions that have nothing to do with the work of the meeting".

According to Rama, "we must put some order, start believing that we live in the XXI century so we must push this issue in the Bureau of Citizen Participation, but no steps are being taken in this regard."

"Social networks serve to promote citizen participation and we must establish a set of basic rules so that this municipal service is really useful, we also have to establish a procedure to create user accounts or profiles, a uniform graphic line, And be governed by the most elementary principles such as professionalism, participation, transparency, respect, or protection of personal data, among others, "Rama explained, stressing, as a general principle," the vocation of information service Public and updated ", where it is necessary to" avoid personal opinions ".

According to Ana Rama, "in a society in which social networks have an important specific weight, and for the sake of transparency, objectivity and good work that this City Council and all its organizations should show, we will raise the next Plenary A battery of questions to try to untangle this problem. "

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena