Transparency Office of the City of Cartagena and works in the Administration Building of San Miguel.
With an initial endowment of four staff, which we will be adding others, its activity is focused now on training staff and try to organize what will be one of the services that promote the participation of citizens through access to data and matters that are neighbors to what has already printed in the office of citizen services.
As explained in a press conference the Councillor for the Office and the Transparency Portal, José María Soler, the target has been raised in the first phase is to fulfill the provisions of the Transparency Law, with the implementation of this office and the transparency portal that will bring together, among other information about the salaries of councilors, temporary personnel, budgets, contracts, regulations, procedures and municipal subsidies.
After this first phase, which will end on December 9, 2015, the Government will continue to drive new transparency measures beyond the minimum required by the law, said Soler.
That will be added to the transparency portal information repeatedly requested by individual citizens and surveys and opinion polls will be held.
Similarly accessions movements created transparency within the FEMP, Infoparticipa and foster Transparency International.
The Code of Good Governance that promotes quality democratic functioning of the institution and the Decalogue of Good Practices in Public Communication will be signed will be ratified.
The coordinator of Communication and Transparency mayor, Ángel Tarifa, has announced that the goal is to be as transparent as possible, with the only limits imposed by the protection of personal data.
To Tarifa, the citizen must feel that there is no plot of the institution novelty of their knowledge and can use the data held by the City Council for its own benefit, such as the demographics of a particular area of the city mount any kind of business.
These measures include a r eplanteamiento overall communication policy of the City of Cartagena, charge, who has revealed the current dispersion of more than 30 municipal websites and that is sometimes cumbersome access to the information they need citizens who end up losing.
It is a complex issue that will take time, he said, but it will work only site that collects and structure, more intuitively, all information and local processing.
It will also work on a redesign of the corporate image including appropriate graphic adaptation of the municipal shield.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena