The 65 Internet portals of the councils of Gran Canaria and Tenerife They have surpassed the notable in the Canary Islands Transparency Index by obtaining a score greater than seven, except for three entities in the case of Tenerife and nine in the case of Gran Canaria, reports Efe.
For the first time in the five years of transparency evaluation, the level of the insular public sectors dependent on both corporations reaches this rating in the Transparency Index (ITcanarias), which is prepared each year by the Transparency Commissioner.
63 public entities are integrated into both councils, such as public companies, autonomous organizations and foundations, which are linked to their two main web portals and are in many cases very unknown, according to what the Transparency Commissioner explained this Thursday.
The public sector dependent onhe Cabildo of Gran Canaria It is made up of 25 entities, and of these, 20 have achieved scores above 5 points in the latest ITCanarias evaluation, that is, 80 percent.
This is considerable progress since only 52 percent achieved it in the previous evaluation and, on the contrary, five entities continue below the approved level, so they have a wide margin for improvement in their transparency portals.
For the first time, the entire public sector of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria has presented its declaration of transparency, the Commissioner stressed. The public sector dependent on the Cabildo de Tenerife is made up of 38 regulated entities, of which 92 percent have achieved scores above 7 points in the ITCanarias 2020.
The three entities that have not achieved it in this last evaluation are, moreover, the only ones in this sector with scores lower than the approved one. Thus, on average in both island public sectors, the continuous improvement of the transparency portals can be observed.
The Gran Canaria public sector has gone from an ITCanarias average of 5.75 in 2017 to a remarkable score in 2020. And the Tenerife public sector has gone from 4.93 in 2017 to almost an outstanding score in 2020, with a score of 8.73 half. With regard to the main transparency portals of each corporation, both councils have achieved scores of over nine points: Gran Canaria’s reaches a score of 9.78 and Tenerife’s 9.81 in this latest evaluation.
“Reality shows that the evaluation process of recent years has contributed to improving the transparency portals of the entire Canary Islands, not only of the councils”, indicated the Transparency Commissioner, Daniel Cerdan.
In his opinion, the great challenge now is to improve their ability to always respond correctly to the thousands of questions that citizens present to them in face-to-face registration and, more easily, in electronic offices.
