primeeres experiences with the new portal module transparència “Political organization of the Consistory” (1/3)
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Since last April 8 the portals of transparència compten both two new modules which make it easier for citizens to improvela visualization of the political organization of the Consistory and the interpretation of economic management indicators of the town councils.
After the primeeres weeks, the portal already has more than a dozen very interesting experienceseressaints. So, this is the first of three publications in which we will show you some examples of practical application of the “Political Organization of the Consistory” module, hoping that they will serve as inspiration for you to move forward.
Module "Political organization of the City Council"
With the activation of this new module, the navigability, usability and quality of information on the portals is improved. transparènciaThe module is deployed in the portal's home page environment. transparència and to the Institutional and organizational Information family.
Developed in collaboration with the Transparent Governments Network and the UAB Communication Laboratory (Infoparticipa Seal), this module requires the City Council to parameterise and activate it.
Then, and through different examples of councils we will show results of the different parameters starting from the main page of the portal, and following the set of items subject to improvement (portfolio, governing bodies and functions, political groups, elected officials, managers and eventual).
1. Main page of the portal
All the entities that have the new module "Political organization of the Consistory"They have it integrated just below the families of transparència and also if you go into detail about the Institutional and organizational information family. We leave you with the example of the result for the Llagostera City Council:
It facilitates:
-See in a very clear way the composition of the council. With the possibility of highlighting who holds the Mayor's Office (with photo included).
-Save through the detail of all the information of elected, managerial and eventual positions, as well as know the municipal political structure (portfolio).
-Consult the data of municipal elections (1979-2019) and be able to download them.
And when we open the link to the history of elections, all the information from the first democratic city council to the present day is displayed in an agile and fast way, and can be downloaded in open data format:
For municipal governments that use the portal transparència The municipal cartipàs is an automatic item that is fed from the CIDO (Barcelona Provincial Council) source. By activating it we can automatically obtain the link to the publication of the cartipàs in official newspapers.
Image of the portfolio item with automated font:
Although this information is very valuable, -especially because we can have it automatically-, it is worth noting that its interpretation is complex, especially for citizens.
With the new module "Political organization of the City Council" the information is much clearer and more understandable, and above all the public can have an updated "photo" of the municipal organization.
This is the example of Castellar del Vallès City Council (piloting us in this project), which has structured the portfolio in different levels:
It facilitates:
-Manage a portfolio structure up to three levels. In this case: areas, councils with coordination and councils.
-Access to the specific detail of information of each council.
-The interaction from the council with the specific information of the elected office.
The detailed information of the council allows to consult aspects like the contact, competitions or schedules, and allows to navigate until the elect position responsible for the same and to consult its file:
You can consult the details of “Cartipass: political organization" on the portal of transparència from the Castellar del Vallès City Council.
3. Other senior positions and charges: profile, contact details, remuneration and activities and assets
For municipal governments that use the portal transparència The item “Senior positions and contingent positions: profile, contact details, remuneration and activities and assets” is a manual item that allows the information to be structured in a drop-down format.
The new module has taken a step forward and improved the visualization and its relationship with other items, such as municipal groups. We have also put a lot of emphasis on the possibility of incorporating all those managerial or eventual staff.
A great example of the work of parameterization of this item is what Castelldefels City Council has done:
It facilitates:
-Quickly see the information of the elected according to the Municipal Group.
-Access to the specific detail of information of each elect.
-Know the published information of the managerial and eventual personnel.
Castelldefels has carefully described the profile of the elected officials and all the managerial and temporary staff. Going into the detailed description (for example of the Mayor) aspects such as the public agenda, the declaration of activities and assets, the resolutions relating to the declarations of activities, assets and interests are included.eresthe names of the high-ranking officials, the salaries... Or their professional and political resume.
And so far the first publication (1/3), with the detail of municipal experiences using the new modules "Political organization of the City Council" and "Indicators of economic management". In the next post we will know other councils that have been advancing in the parameterization of the items "Governing bodies and functions" and "Municipal groups".
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