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The Digicanvis Observatory: share and inspire other councils
The Minister of Government and Public Administration, Xavier Sabaté, on behalf of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu, and the President of the Localret Consortium, Pere Navarro, signed on October 24 this year in the Department of Governance the agreement on the interoperability of information systems between public administrations. The agreement states that during the first half of 2007 a telematics platform will come into operation from which the signatory institutions and the local administrations that adhere to it will be able to consult, in accordance with the regulations for the protection of personal data, data and documentation that is currently requested from citizens whenever they want to carry out a procedure. With the launch of this platform, citizens, companies and organizations will be able to save on travel to carry out procedures with public administrations.
The agreement stipulates that all the departments of the Generalitat de Catalunya, as well as their bodies and dependent entities, will make available to Barcelona City Council and the local administrations that adhere to the agreement the electronic data and certificates relating to citizens. , companies and organizations that have and are requested in the procedures of other administrations.
Barcelona City Council, for its part, will make available to the Administration of the Generalitat and its dependent bodies, as well as to the other administrations, the data and certificates provided for in the catalog of procedures established by the Ordinance regulating e-government, approved by the City Council last March. This ordinance already established the principle of inter-administrative cooperation and the promotion of the replacement of paper documents by electronic certificates.
The Localret Consortium, which brings together the majority of Catalan councils, will promote the adherence of all of them to this agreement, with the aim of making interoperability a reality for all citizens of all the municipalities of Catalonia.
El Electronic Open Administration Consortium of Catalonia (AOC Consortium), undertakes to launch the interoperability telematics platform during the first half of 2007.
Saving travel and time: examples
The agreement signed on October 24 by the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council and the Localret Consortium aims for the administrations to be able to exchange information through the online platform. This platform will allow citizens to save on travel to present the documentation required for processing during opening hours.
Examples of application may be non-contributory pension applications, proof of membership in a large family to obtain Real Estate Tax (IBI) rebates, or communication of the number of residents in a home to find out which ones. are the tributary stretches of water to be collected. In all these cases, different administrations intervene that do not have the data and consult them with the citizens, who in turn have to request them from the administration that has the official certificate that accredits them.