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Digital Transformation Module in the Local World: train yourself to lead change
On April 28, 2003 at 11h 8m and 23s, Mr. Santiago Camps and Pinyol, secretary of the Regional Council of the Ribera d'Ebre, sent a communication to the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Catalunya. This inaugurated a tool, promoted by the Department of Governance and Institutional Relations of the Generalitat de Catalunya, aimed at reducing postal correspondence and paper support in relations between the city councils and the Generalitat. At that time, the opening of EACAT allowed the use of three services: the aforementioned publication in the DOGC, the application for a grant program aimed at county councils called Network 41 and the PUOSC grants.
Today, the entire Catalan public sector uses it for its communications and receives it reciprocally: town councils, county councils, provincial councils, the Generalitat, the public business sector, universities, chambers of commerce and various parliamentary bodies, such as the Parliament of Catalonia itself. , the Audit Offices and Grievances, the CAC, etc. Putting data in it, this represents that Over 23.000 public workers from about 2.000 interact with us.
The inter-administrative processing services make it possible to replace paper document submissions with those corresponding in electronic form, maintaining legal validity with the incorporation of the recognized electronic signature, as well as with the management of electronic entries in the registers, both those of output of the sending organism as those of entry of the receiving organism.
Currently, EACAT has consolidated itself as a tool that has made it possible to advance all Catalan administrations in the field of e-government. Managed by the AOC Consortium since 2004 (as a result of the management order of the Department of Governance and Institutional Relations) over these first 10 years of history it has developed more than 300 administrative procedures and the administrations have exchanged more than 730.000 shipments.
If we calculate the savings during these 10 years of all the Catalan administrations, following the parameters described in the “Local administrative burden reduction manual”Prepared by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Administration, together with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, which define a difference of 75 ′ between the submission of an application in person or online, we could say that this saving has exceeded 54 million euros.
Services and access requirementsIts services include for its mass use the sending of publication to the DOGC, the sending of acts and agreements to the General Directorate of Local Administration of the Department of Governance and Institutional Relations, the procedures of the General Directorate for Immigration. and grants from the Department of Social Welfare and Family, applications for collective burns and fire permits from the Corps of Rural Agents of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Rural Affairs, as well as grants of the PUOSC.
The requirements for access to EACAT are basic: all you need is a computer connected to the Internet and that the user making the shipment has an electronic certificate. In addition, EACAT has provided some collateral benefits such as the fact that its implementation throughout the Catalan public sector has provided at least each mayor and municipal secretary and many senior officials and technical staff of the Generalitat, the corresponding T-CAT , the card addressed to the personnel of the Catalan public administrations that contains digital certificates of CATCert. This fact has helped to drive other e-government projects.
The consolidation of EACAT is due to the fact that its benefits are clear: savings on travel and postal mail; the reduction of time, since the registration is immediate; the guarantee of legal security at the time of processing; without forgetting a significant decrease in the ecological cost of processing by replacing the paper format with electronic.
EACAT is an example of collaboration between administrations and we consider that the milestones established in 2003 have been achieved. In the first year of activity, 168 submissions were made. During the first three months of 2013, more than 71.000 have already been processed, consolidating a continuous exponential increase, year after year.