Valls City Council has been awarded the first prize in the "Services finalists" category of the Alfons Ortuño 2020 awards the project "OpenVallsChain", a project that applies blockchain technology to offer interoperable open data, with full autonomy to users and in a decentralized manner.
The V edition of the Alfons Ortuño Awards for innovation and good practices in the field of public management in public administrations has also awarded three first prizes to the Girona Provincial Council, The Universitat Pompeu Fabra i theCatalan Health Institute in the categories “Organization, processes and economic management”, “Transparència, good governance, evaluation and quality” and “Development of teams and people” respectively. In addition to the four first prizes, the jury awarded eight second prizes and two special jury prizes.
With the motto "Ideas that are born to be from everyone", this has been the edition with the most nominations since the first call. Nearly fifty have appeared, twice as many as in the 2018 edition despite the context of the pandemic. The awards honor the memory of Alfons Ortuño Salazar, who throughout the 80s was one of the architects of the public finances of the recovered Generalitat, right-hand man of Councilor Ramon Trias Fargas, former secretary general of the Department of Economy and ex-syndic of the Trade Union of Accounts.
We are awarded
Category 1: Organization, processes and economic management
- First prize: Girona Provincial Council, for the project "Assistance service in the exercise of internal control".
- Accessed:
– Management of theBarcelona City Council, for the "Incorporation of the gender perspective in municipal taxation" project
- City Council of Terrassa, for the performance "Equalities connected. Intersectionality in local policies".
Category 2: Transparència, good governance, evaluation and quality
- First prize: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, for the project "Deployment of a comprehensive quality management tool: the application to evaluate qualifications".
- Accessed:
- Paeria de Lleida, for the "Open Budgets" project.
- City Council of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, for the "Accountability of Service Letters" initiative.
Category 3: Development of teams and people
- First prize: Catalan Health Institute, for the "Evaluation of managers and commanders for positive accreditation and development plans" project.
- Accessed:
- General Directorate of Digital Administration, for the "ApLAB (learning laboratories)" project
- Department of Territory and Sustainability, for the action "Collective intelligence at the service of teams and people. Codedevelopment Project”.
Category 4: Finalist services
- First prize: Valls City Council, for the “OpenVallsChain, distributed open data portal” project.
- Accessed:
- Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, for the project “APP FotoDUN. Geotagged photographs”.
- Catalan Housing Agency, for the action "Mediem, Network of mediation services in the field of housing in Catalonia".
Special jury awards:
- For the General Intervention assigned to the Department of the Vice-Presidency and the Economy and Finance, for the project "The web of aid and subsidies in Catalonia: the RAISC and the subsidy policy".
- For the Regional Council of Vallès Occidental, for the action "Information service and emotional support for the citizens of Vallès Occidental".
