- Open administration
The new regulatory bases for subsidies to county councils for assistance in AOC digital services have been published in the DOGC
Saving time and travel in procedures with the administration is already a reality. Law 11/2007, of 22 June, on citizens' electronic access to public services, requires it by establishing the right of citizens and companies not to provide data and documents that are already in the possession of the administrations. To find out the different answers that local administrations have at their disposal, the Deputation of Tarragona organized an explanatory conference on the new electronic administration projects designed by AOC Consortium i local.
The inauguration of the event was carried out by the vice-president of the Provincial Council and deputy delegate of the Municipal Assistance Service, Quim Nin i Borreda, who emphasized the importance that electronic administration plays in the modernization and effectiveness of the 'local administration. In this sense, he described the day as a great opportunity to improve and advance on the path of electronic administration by the hand of the municipalities to become 'a useful tool for citizens and provide service and response to the needs of the municipalities. '.
Via Oberta: Goodbye to paper
Joan Olivares, director-manager of the AOC Consortium, presented the new one EACAT, a service portal that connects administrations easily and provides the advantage of having, in the same space, different inter-administrative processing services and the new services of Via Abierta. Services that allow administrations to consult electronically the data and electronic documents of other administrations, thus replacing the traditional contribution of certificates and paper documents. Consequently, citizens who until now had to attach documents issued by other institutions to their applications with the administration, will be able to start saving time, paper and money.
At the same time, the director of the Consortium presented thee. FACT, an electronic invoicing model created by the Consortium with the aim of Catalan administrations adopting electronic invoicing, in order to allow space savings and more effective management. At the same time, Joan Olivares explained the current possibilities in the call for grants 2008 to which local administrations can choose to implement the services and technological solutions that the AOC Consortium has been developing.
On the other hand, the project manager of Localret's Information Society area, Lluís Albert Just, presented some of his electronic administration projects, such as the Local Innovation Bank (BIL) which collects tools and examples of good practices from Catalan municipalities in the application of new technologies. And finally, the deputy delegate of the Municipal Assistance Service of the Tarragona County Council, Quim Nin, introduced his presentation 'The County Council and the councils walk together to implement electronic administration'.