Navarra celebrates Open Public Administration Week with activities to bring transparency, participation, accountability and public integrity closer to citizens
Navarra will soon celebrate Open Public Aministration Week with activities aimed at bringing transparency, participation, accountability and public integrity closer to citizens. This initiative is promoted globally by the Open Government Partnership, an organization created in 2011 by former U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to strengthen democracies through participation, collaboration and transparency, and which the Comunidad Foral joined last year after a rigorous selection process.
The activities organized by the Directorate General of Presidency, Open Government and Relations with Parliament begin on Monday, 19 May with a “Coffee with Data,” a training session on data quality and the benefits of metadata for publishing data on open‑data portals.
On 20 and 23 May, sessions have been scheduled on new citizen‑support tools, clear communication in public administration and participatory processes for improving services.
The management and promotion of volunteering from public administrations will be another focus of the program. Through the session “Volunteering in Local Entities, the Pulse That Unites Us,” the legal framework for volunteering will be presented, and a participatory workshop will be held to gather citizen suggestions within the framework of drafting the future Foral Law on Volunteering. The sessions will take place on 14 May in Tafalla, 21 May in the Señorío de Bértiz Nature Park, 4 June in Tudela and 11 June in Lumbier.
Some of these activities fall within the 1st Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership, a two‑year work program aimed at deepening transparency, accountability, inclusion and citizen participation, within the collaboration undertaken with what is also known as the Open Government Partnership (OGP).
Open visits to facilities managed by NASERTIC
NASERTIC, a public company attached to the Department of Presidency and Equality, is also joining Open Government Week with the organization of three open days at its different facilities for the public.
In this way, visitors will be able to learn about the operation of Government of Navarra infrastructures managed by the public company, such as the Government of Navarra’s Data Processing Center, the technological infrastructure that hosts all the information systems managed by the Government of Navarra and used to provide services to all citizens in their electronic processes with the different departments, including medical records, tax information, police records and education data.
Additionally, open day sessions have been scheduled at the San Cristóbal Telecommunications Center and at the Massive Sequencing, Molecular Biology and Synthetic Biology Laboratory of the Navarra Digital Innovation Hub (Polo Iris), all of them managed by NASERTIC.
All visits will take place on Thursday, 22 May, with prior registration required at comunicacion@nasertic.es.
