The Vice President and Minister of Digital Policies and Territory, jordi puigneró, welcomed the new director of the Open Administration of Catalonia, Astrid Desset, which joins the AOC to continue promoting the digital transformation of Catalan administrations. Desset brings its public management experience to enhance the digitalization of public administrations and promote agile, open and collaborative governments where people enjoy quality digital public services and live in an open society.
Astrid Desset she has been mayor of Anglès (la Selva) since 2015 and has a degree in Computer Engineering from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has also completed a Postgraduate Degree in Electronic Administration and Government Open to the Local World from the University of Girona, and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Innovation and Digital Transformation at the UOC.
He has developed his professional career as a technician in information systems, working initially on his own and, since 2010, in public administration, implementing data analysis systems for decision making, management software and online processing, and collaborative digital tools.
She has also been president of the Consorci del Ter, vice-president of External and Institutional Projection of the Catalan Association of Municipalities and Counties, and councilor for the area of internal organization, in the field of IT, of the Consell Comarcal de la Selva.
Balance of the work done in the AOC in the last 3 years
Desset replaces in the position a Marga Bonmatí after three years in which the AOC has established itself as the benchmark in the provision of common digital, interoperability and digital identity services that guarantee that all Catalan administrations can become open and digital, and respond to needs of the citizenry.
It has been achieved that 99% of local bodies in Catalonia process digitally and have a portal of transparènciaIn 2020, during the pandemic, a record was reached in which 74% of procedures were managed electronically, double that of 2019. The savings generated by the use of AOC services are 500 million euros annually.
During this period, new services have been promoted such as Representa, “El Meu Espai” (MyGov), e-TRAM 2.0 and registration in theidCAT Mobile through video identification, being the first public administration of the State to implement this innovative system. In addition, the services of the AOC have been consolidated with more than 800.000 electronic transactions per day in the areas of interoperability, identification and digital processing. Currently, more than 2 million citizens and public employees use the AOC's digital identification and processing services.
20 years of the AOC
The handover at the AOC's management coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Pact for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society in Catalan Public Administrations, signed in the Parliament of Catalonia on July 23, 2001 by all parliamentary groups, the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia and local governments. representats by Localret and which was the starting point of the Open Administration Consortium of Catalonia.
