The eSET, the working method to transform and digitalize public administrations promoted by the Open Administration Consortium of Catalonia (AOC) and the Provincial Councils of Barcelona, Lleida and Girona, has been awarded the CNIS2020 prize in the category “Best results obtained from multidisciplinary collaborative working groups”.
The shared award has been picked up Marga Bonmatí, director of the AOC, Joseph Arimany, of the Diputació de Barcelona, Jordi Xargay, of the Diputació de Girona i Francesc Sabanes, of the Diputació de Lleida, during the presentation of the X CNIS 2020 Awards that recognize the initiatives of innovation, digital transformation and cultural change in public administrations.
The AOC, in collaboration with the Girona Provincial Council, began implementing this system in 2012 in municipalities with less than 5.000 inhabitants, a working method that was definitively promoted in 2015. Later they were transformed municipalities of Lleida, together with the Diputació de Lleida, and also added the Diputació de Barcelona, owning the project with the name “SeTDIBA”.
The public worker, agent of digital transformation and cultural change
The working methodology eSET prioritizes the implementation of a common working method and its systematization over the implementation of technological tools. It allows entities to share a working model and resources, helping them to optimize ICT, make costs more profitable and improve services to their citizens. In parallel, it promotes the comprehensive digitalization of the entity's processes by promoting a change of habits under a standardized and transversal working model. It structures information under objective, homogeneous criteria shared by everyone.
This method of work places the public worker as an agent of digital transformation because it equips him with new work habits and resources that make them more efficient in their daily tasks.
As of today, theeSET It has been implemented in 204 entities, there are 387.863 citizens who benefit from it and represents a total of €11.826.339 in savings in the country.
The award of this prize shows that collaboration between different public administrations is basic and essential to have agile and logical governments that are able to offer citizens quality public services to live in an open society and a digital country.
