The Cabildo of Lanzarote will subscribe to the Canary Islands Open Government Network, an inter-administrative collaboration agreement promoted by the Government of the Canary Islands that will be signed in the coming dates and that has the seven island councils and the 88 municipalities of the island, whose purpose is to promote transparency, citizen participation and opening of data to citizens.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, and the island councilor for Citizen Participation, Paula Corujo, received this Monday the general director of Transparency and Citizen Participation of the Government of the Canary Islands, Marta Saavedra, and the director of the Canary Islands Institute of Public Administration, Eva de Anta.
During the meeting, the representatives of the first island institution and the regional Executive discussed the importance of the inclusion of Lanzarote in this commitment of the Government of the Canary Islands, also signed at the national level, which will allow the public institutions of the Archipelago cooperation in transparency, citizen participation and data opening, the three fundamental pillars of the Open Government.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, considers this collaboration between institutions as an “opportunity for society to better know public administrations, to involve it in the management of them, and to make this work more and more efficient”.
“We will create through this tool a new system of co-governance between citizens and institutions, so that the concept of democracy in our society will be improved and will open new horizons for the resolution of fundamental problems for the Canary Islands and for the satisfaction of the main needs of the people”, explains the president.
Among the benefits that this agreement will bring are the federation of open data from public institutions of the Canary Islands in the portal www.datos.canarias.es, the training of public employees through the Canary Islands Institute of Public Administration in matters of Open Government, or the promotion of citizen participation through the technological tools that the regional government is currently developing.
