As usual during the first quarter of each year from the research group ComSET (Sound, Strategic Communication and Transparency) fruit of the merger of the Journalism and Communication Laboratory for Plural Citizenship i Public radio, will begin the work of evaluation of the good practices in the field of the communicative transparency in the webs of the local administration following the methodology "Infoparticipa".
Specifically and for this new edition, already the tenth in Catalonia, the Infoparticipa evaluations will be carried out from the February 1 to March 21, 2022, keeping the same 52 indicators. You can consult it detailed guide to the criteria.
News "Infoparticipa" regarding the use of the transparency portal of the AOC - XGT
The guide for evaluating “Infoparticipa” 2021-2022 specifically includes two interesting recommendations for Catalan councils in order to improve their communicative transparency, while minimizing the impact of duplicate information between web portals and transparency portals. Specifically:
- Recommendation for using the advanced political organization configuration module
The Infoparticipa guide (in its final note) indicates that through the advanced political organization configuration module offered by the AOC -XGT portal, the “Infoparticipa” indicators associated with "Transparency of the corporation" ranging from 1 to 14.
Therefore, it includes all the information associated with elected officials, political composition, political groups, portfolios, governing bodies, remuneration, etc.
However, it should be noted that the "Infoparticipa" team emphasizes the need for the use of the module to be complete, with up-to-date and correctly completed data. To this end, below are different resources that include examples of good practice, and especially the configuration manual for this module:
It is important to mention that the “Infoparticipa” team took part in the work of defining this module, and at the beginning of 2022 more than a hundred Catalan councils have already made progress in its implementation and now they already have of a better navigability, usability and reuse of the public information of the set of indicated indicators.
During the first half of this 2022, from the AOC we will work to be able to offer this module also to the county councils and to the provincial councils, because at the moment it is only available for town councils.
- Recommendation for the use of the economic management indicators module
The “Infoparticipa” guide also indicates the promotion of the activation of the economic management indicators module. The module makes it easier to visualize in an agile, understandable, comprehensible way economic data of the entity, providing at the same time, comparative information with the territory (with respect to the county, provincial and whole of Catalonia) and the evolution of the last 5 years.
For more information on the economic indicators module we leave you the support portal link which explains how to activate it, the data sources and the methodology of the work.
This module of economic indicators is very easy to activate, improves the vision of economic data, and is a very interesting complement to the detailed information of the different specific items of economic management available on the portal. It is worth mentioning that the module also involved the participation of the "Iinfoparticipa" team in its definition.
We hope that the use of these two modules also recommended by "Infoparticipa" is of interest to you. Just remember that from the AOC - XGT we continue to work to improve the portal, updating information (new items, improvements to existing ones), looking for new automations, or advancing in new visualizations attractive to the public. We encourage you to follow us on this channel where we will be advertising the various improvements proposed.
