The 1st eMunicipalities Electronic Administration Conference, organized by the eMunicipalities office of the Girona Provincial Council, has been the framework chosen to present the new governance model #eSET offered by the Open Administration Consortium of Catalonia in collaboration with the provincial governments. The event brought together public workers involved in the digital transformation of their entities and who stand out for their pro-activity and progress with learning communities.
The session was opened by Jordi Xargay, deputy representative of Road Network and New Technologies, who, together with the director of the AOC, Astrid Desset, and the secretary-interventor of the Celrà City Council, Meritxell Vargas, participated in the round table "A door to the supra-municipal universe".
Next, the head of the e-SET service, Gemma Varona he gave a brief introduction of the main features of the e-SET model and then explained the new e-SET governance model that will be built with the collaboration and support of the councils. This new collaborative project will entail three main challenges:
- the adaptation of the service to the real needs of the different types of users (councils of more than 5 thousand h., local autonomous bodies, municipal boards of trustees, public business entities, commonwealths, local consortia, EMD, etc.),
- the updating of the documentation in accordance with the regulations that have been approved in recent years, the results of the analyzes of various indicators and of good practices,
- the creation of two models of self-evaluation and control (type checking) that will allow the user bodies to determine their degree of digital transformation and evaluate the monitoring and compliance with the principles of the e-SET management model. In line with the first challenge, these forms for collecting indicators and information will take into account the profile of users.
In the current phase of data collection, visits will be scheduled with the local entities that went through the implementation with the aim of analyzing how they are compared to the original e-SET model. The data and conclusions obtained will not be published or transmitted but will be used for the collaborative creation of the new governance model.
In short, it will be given greater flexibility and a more global scope so that it becomes a new management model that adapts to the current situation of Catalan public administrations with the ultimate goal of offering a better service to the citizenry
The day also presented the learning communities organized in four round tables in which the people participating in their respective communities explained their experience, the goals achieved and the challenges for the future. Specifically, these tables dealt with:
- the work done to improve municipal websites,
- automatic registration flyers, an initiative that is also being worked on with the AOC,
- the control panel of the municipalities that allows them to visualize their strengths and weaknesses and provides them with resources for improvement and finally and
- the use of artificial intelligence for automatic document classification.
To finish, the workshop "Active thinking for the joint resolution of daily problems" was held, with Jordi Castanyer i Dani Rodríguez, from the eMunicipis team.
