Five local corporations in Gran Canaria have not yet exceeded the score of 5 in none of the evaluations carried out by the Transparency Commissioner, that is, 23.81%. These are the municipalities of Firgas, Ingenio, Artenara, The Village of San Nicolás Y Agaete, informs Eph.
“The portals of the municipalities have improved a lot in the last two years, but the objective now is to improve the fulfillment of the responses of the administrations to the questions of the citizens,” he indicates. Daniel Cerdán, Canary Islands Transparency Commissioner.
In turn, the average score in the Canary Islands Transparency Index of the 21 municipalities of Gran Canaria exceed the approval for the second consecutive year and reaches the notable with 7.10.
From them, seven achieved outstanding ratingsthat is, 33.33%: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Vega de San Mateo, Valleseco, Santa Brígida, Mogán, Santa Lucía de Tirajana and Arucas.
Tenerife
The Tenerife city councils are close to outstanding in their transparency portals Y the grancanarios surpass the remarkableaccording to him Commissioner for Transparency of the Canary Islands, Daniel Cerdanwho believes that the goal is for corporations to improve their responses to citizens’ questions.
The arithmetic mean of the 31 Tenerife city councils rises one point in the latest review of the quality of their transparency portals, from 7.73 in 2019 to 8.78 in 2020, which is why they are close to outstanding in the Transparency Index of the Canary Islands that the Transparency Commissioner prepares each year, as reported today by Cerdán in a statement.
Of the 31 Tenerife city councils, 18 achieved outstanding ratings, that is, 58.06%, while only 13 did so the previous year.
Likewise, the municipalities of Los Realejos, Santiago del Teide, Tacoronte and El Rosario achieved 10.
On the contrary the Municipality of Vilaflorwhich reached 6.3 in 2019, fell back to 3.5 in 2020 and was the only consistory of Tenerife that did not exceed five points.
Canary Islands
The Transparency Index of the Canary Islands measures the greater or lesser degree of compliance with the information obligations contemplated in the Transparency Law of the Canary Islands by the 347 public entities of the Archipelago, by 706 private entities (subsidized with more than 60,000 euros per year) and by 66 schools professionals and chambers of commerce.
It is defined through the self-assessment of these entities with the collaboration of more 1,463 people (officials or workers) authorized to upload information through the electronic headquarters of the Commissionerwhere more than 2.2 million pieces of data were inserted last year.
Of the 347 public portals, 88 are from Canarian town councils and another 102 more from public entities dependent on them.
