The Cabildo of Lanzarote has approved in Transparency reaching 6.83. For the first time in the four years in which the level of compliance with the obligations to report on their transparency portals has been evaluated, the seven Canary Island councils exceed the score of 5 out of 10
The arithmetic average of the island corporations goes from 3.85 points reached in 2016 to 6.93 in 2017 and 7.39 in 2018; according to the evaluation of the Transparency Index of the Canary Islands carried out by the Transparency Commissioner.
"The permanent progression of the island public sector is largely the result of the annual self-assessment exercises carried out each year by more than a hundred public servants from the councils and their 88 dependent entities through a common telematic tool, T-Canaria, installed in our electronic headquarters", indicates the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands, Daniel Cerdán. "The process is rigorous because the answers to more than 170 questions have to be loaded; many of them with up to five different attributes. The calculation is therefore carried out with more than 700 data from each entity, through a mathematical algorithm and is not arbitrary at all"
In 2016, four of the seven councils did not reach the score of five. The following year only one was below it, that of Lanzarote. And in 2018 the average of the island corporations exceeds the notable for the first time. "Persistence in the evaluation of public policies has these positive effects."
The island public sector is made up of 93 obligated subjects: seven councils, 19 autonomous bodies, 4 public business entities, 41 public companies, 12 foundations and 11 consortiums, of which 88 submitted their declaration of transparency.
All the entities dependent on the councils of El Hierro, La Gomera and Tenerife collaborated in this evaluation, with only two missing from the councils of Gran Canaria and La Palma and one from the councils of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
Of the 88 entities that provided a declaration, 54 have an ITCanarias equal to or greater than 5, that is, 61.36% of the collaborating subjects, while in 2017, 29 achieved it. In addition, in this evaluation, 29 obligated subjects are above 7, thirteen more than the previous year.
It should be noted that, for the first time, among the entities dependent on the councils, eight have an outstanding ITCanarias, higher than 9. They are the company Canalink África de Tenerife, S.L. (9.7), the Gran Canaria Housing Consortium (9.69), the Technological and Telecommunications Institute of Tenerife, S.L. (IT3) (9.63), the Society for the Development of Telecommunications of Gran Canaria, S.A.U. (9.55), the company Canalink Baharicom, S.L. (9.4), the Tenerife Tax Consortium (9.26), the Consortium of Security, Emergencies, Rescue, Prevention and Extinction of Fires of Lanzarote (9, 21) and the Cabildo of El Hierro (9.04).