SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The 98 main institutions of the Canary Islands and 96.3% of their dependent public entities (companies, foundations, etc.) have presented the corresponding declaration to the Transparency Commissioner this year and only thirteen of the 348 island public organizations stopped doing so. compared to the 62 who did not do so in the previous year.
As reported by the Transparency Commissioner in a statement, this time the reduction in non-compliance is 77%, as has been the case every year since evaluations of public entities began in 2016.
The body has highlighted that this progression “confirms that the Canary Islands achieve the best ratios in all of Spain, in the exercise of ‘transparency on active transparency’ and places the Archipelago in an advanced position to control the transparency of the thousands of million euros from NextGeneration EU funds, to be distributed in the coming years “.
Both the main institutions (Government, councils, city councils and universities) and the dependent or subsidized entities now have a deadline to present allegations and improve their grades and the quality of their transparency portals until November 2. The final note of those that do not claim will be the provisional one.
“Every year the non-compliance in the declaration of transparency of public subjects is reduced and the scores obtained by the improvement of the contents of transparency portals increase in parallel: three years ago 136 did not comply, two years ago, 62, and in this exercise only 13 “, said Daniel Cerdán, Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands
He added that the provisional scores have gone up and will still improve somewhat this month during the allegation period that we have opened. A clear correlation can already be established statistically between the increase in self-evaluation and the improvement of the active transparency of the portals.
According to Daniel Cerdán, different happens with the right of access to information, where there is still a lot of room for improvement, because a very high percentage of citizens are answered with silence for an answer, with administrative silence.
In this sense, three out of every four claims for the right of access to information that reached the Transparency Commissioner last year “were because they had been answered with the helpless figure of administrative silence,” says the commissioner.
The evaluation process is carried out with the collaboration of more than a thousand public servants and workers in subsidized private entities. They have generated in the T-Canaria application around 1.7 million data, with which the algorithm automatically defines the greater or lesser degree of advance or decrease of the active transparency of each obliged subject.
ABOUT THE ‘T-CANARIA’ APP
The ‘T-Canaria’ application allows all Canarian public entities to evaluate themselves on the quality with which they reflect their activity on their transparency portals, websites or electronic headquarters. In other words, it is an exercise in “transparency on its own transparency”, which is useful to the entire organization, leaders and public employees.
In the administrations, the culture of informing on transparency portals is beginning to consolidate, while this does not happen to the same degree in the entities that depend on them, through which more than one year is spent in many cases. third of the budget.
The evaluations are transferred in a report to the Plenary of the Canary Islands Parliament at the end of the evaluation process and will be published in an open format.
This telematics tool allows the calculation of the Canary Islands Transparency Index (ITCanarias), the first autonomous public ranking created so far. Its mission is to help entities to improve transparency and reduce opacity in an agile and economical way: no procedure is carried out on paper anymore. Its algorithm reduces arbitrariness in checks and evaluations, by executing them through mathematical calculations. Its operation is explained in the User Manual published on the website of the Transparency Commissioner and in a section on specific Evaluation within the website.
On that same page, in a spreadsheet called ‘Obligations Map’, the informative contents that each type of entity must include in its transparency portal are provided, according to the Law: 120 the Autonomous Community: 111 contents the city councils and councils ; between 80 and 50 entities linked to and dependent on all Canarian institutions; and only 14 entities subsidized by the public sector.
What each person does not find in them can ask each institution, which is obliged to respond in a month, as determined by law. If there is no answer or it is insufficient, you can file a claim without any legal cost before the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands, either from your home through the electronic headquarters, or in any official public registry.
On the other hand, this year, for the second time, 707 entities subsidized with more than 60,000 euros in 2020 by the Government of the Canary Islands and 100,000 euros from the island councils have been summoned; Of these, 579, 81.90%, have been self-assessed, a percentage that doubles that reached in 2016 when public institutions were evaluated for the first time and only 37 of them answered. And 54 public law corporations, mainly professional associations, have also carried out their transparency self-assessment for the second time. In total, there are 968 entities that have self-assessed these months compared to 661 the previous year.
An allegation period has been opened until November 2 so that any of the 968 organizations, between public and private, that presented their self-evaluation to the Commissioner can improve the provisional score that they have available in the electronic headquarters of the Commissioner.
