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Open and participatory council of the City of Cordoba.

Country

Argentina

Organization

City of Cordoba

Type of experience

regulations and legislation

Theme

governance and transparency

SDGs

SDG 16

Award

10th.

The Deliberative Council of Cordoba (local legislative body) is positioned as a pioneer in promoting access to public information and the use of new technologies to open and bring the institution to neighbors.

Description

Deepening its policy of transparency and access to information, the Deliberative Council of the City of Córdoba continues to publish data in open format for media, citizens and organizations so they can have direct access to the activity and operation, documents can be downloaded, analyzed and reused.

Open council is an initiative promoted by the Deputy Mayor of the City of Córdoba, Dr. Marcelo Cossar, V0082 approved by the Decree of December 16, 2014, which consolidates the work of three years of management in a series of initiatives that include the development of systems of quality management in the legislative process, strengthening transparency and accountability through the development of a new website of the Deliberative Council http://concejoabierto.cdcordoba.gob.ar/, the functioning of the Office of Access to Information, and head of digital social networks as a means of communication and interaction with the public use.

By using Junar, one of the world's leading platforms on open data, it was possible to publish data and generate various resources quickly and easily, so that they can be worked on, organized and shared by all the people interested TO Parliament information and their councilors. In this way, the publication and use of open data promotes innovation through reuse, allows the development of new applications and services, and generate new roads of collaboration with citizens.

With regard to legislative activity, can be consulted the assists of the councilors at the legislative sessions since the year 2011 to the last meeting held, the legislative projects presented since 2008 to the last session, the attendance at Commission meetings, the public hearings made, how to vote on each project and the cases admitted daily.

The political and personal staff plan updated is also available, as well as personnel in charge of the Deputy Mayor and Aldermen. On the budget, you can find a list of suppliers and budget executions.

In open council, you can access the following resources: Data sets (collections of data that can be opened and presented in different formats, allowing reprocessing and re work by those who use them); Data Views (resources created from a set of data showing information by way of tables, rows or columns, presenting more friendly and clear manner); and views (graphical representations of selected data).

Since its launch in December 2014, the Open Council has tripled the published information, currently counting that has more than 200 resources that can be downloaded and reused: 117 data sets, 150 views, 6 outstanding collections of data, displays and graphics of the available information. Only between the months of July and September 2015, the data portal received more than 20.000 visits.

In April last year, it has been made the launch of the new portal of the Open Council (http://concejoabierto.cdcordoba.gob.ar/), which has more friendly and accessible design for the residents, as well as the opening and publication of the information contained in the covers of Affidavits of Deputy Mayor and Aldermen and the displaying full information from a QR code that can be rad on any device: http://concejoabierto.cdcordoba.gob.ar/index.php/viceintendente-y-concejales/

 

This new initiative was presented at the 15th Conference of the IOPD (International Observatory of Participatory Democracy): "Open Government: Transparency and Citizen Participation", held in the city of Madrid from 24 to 26 March 2015.

In May 2015 it was organized in the historic Cabildo of the city of Cordoba the "First Day of Open Parliament" which aimed to promote the discussion and the debate around the concept of Open Parliament and open data as a tool to promote transparency, participation and the collaboration of citizens in public affairs.

Also Government Days were organized (jointly with the Planning Council of the province, the ICDA, and Junar and Open Data Cba.) Under which he developed the Hackathon that had three axes: Virtual Platform for Public Policy: Build a platform fosters public participation in the development of Public Agenda, encouraging the generation of new project ideas, using the knowledge and experience of citizens to help in the design of public policies, the City Council Open Data: Build platforms, developments and views from the Open Data published the Deliberative Council of the City of Córdoba. Transparency in public procurement: Scale development "Medusapp", an electronic tool to facilitate the dissemination of information on government procurement processes. The development seeks to generate commitment to transparency on the part of the suppliers.

 

To view and download information:

Legislatives projects presented at the Deliberative Council since 2008 to date:

http://cdcordoba.opendata.junar.com/dashboards/9398/proyectos-legislativos-2008-2015/

 

Assists the councilors to legislative sessions this year http://cdcordoba.opendata.junar.com/dashboards/9397/asistencias-a-sesiones-legislativas-2015/

 

Assists of the councilors at the Legislatives Sessions (2011-2015 periods):

http://concejoabierto.cdcordoba.gob.ar/index.php/datos-abiertos/asistencias/

 

Assist of the councilors at the Commission meetings this year:

http://cdcordoba.opendata.junar.com/dashboards/9393/asistencias-a-reuniones-de-comision-2015/

 

Legislative Affairs admitted daily to the Legislative Secretariat:

http://cdcordoba.opendata.junar.com/datastreams/94506/asuntos-ingresados-a-la-secretaria-legislativa-al-230915/

 

Public Hearings (since 2008 to date):

http://cdcordoba.opendata.junar.com/dashboards/8892/audiencias-publicas/

 

Politic plant and staff of the Deliberative Council:

http://concejoabierto.cdcordoba.gob.ar/index.php/datos-abiertos/personal/

 

Budgetary execution:

http://cdcordoba.opendata.junar.com/dashboards/8911/ejecucion-presupuestaria/