SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife will invest 2.5 million euros in the execution of some twenty projects with the island’s town halls to improve the public services that local administrations provide to citizens.
This is the budget of the new 2023 Municipal Modernization Plan, which has 20% more financing than in 2022 and includes new areas of action with which it seeks to go one step further in the support that the Island Corporation provides to the municipalities .
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, highlighted “the fundamental support that the Cabildo is providing to the 31 municipalities of the island through this plan with which many municipalities, especially those with less than 20,000 inhabitants, have been able to tackle projects that do not could run by themselves”
“The new Municipal Modernization Plan for 2023 adds to the 4.6 million euros that we have already invested throughout this mandate in actions aimed at modernizing and supporting local management in the 31 municipalities of the island,” Pedro added. Martín, who wanted to remember that the annual budget of the Municipal Modernization Plan has grown by 146% compared to 2019, the first year of the legislature.
For her part, the Second Vice President and Minister of the Presidency, Finance and Modernization, Berta Pérez, emphasized the good results obtained with the 2022 Municipal Modernization Plan, which had two million euros (29 percent more than in 2021 ) and “to which 25 of the 31 municipalities of the island adhered, covering not only municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants, which we are obliged to support by law, but also all those who requested our collaboration in matters of modernization”.
Regarding the 2023 program, which was recently approved by the Governing Council, the Minister for Modernization explained that the objective “is to develop a total of 20 projects with which, on the one hand, we want to continue the work that we are already developing with the municipalities in matters of cybersecurity, data protection or electronic processing; and on the other, we are going to initiate new lines of collaboration related to administrative simplification, accessibility to the portals and apps of the municipalities and the drafting of municipal modernization plans “.
In this context, the insular director of Modernization, Daniel González, explained the new Municipal Modernization Plan will allow further progress in the incorporation of municipalities to the insular fiber optic network, thus facilitating access to public services; the financing of technological solutions to implement electronic administration in municipalities with less than 30,000 inhabitants or the provision of new virtual server services and remote desktops that will mean a significant reduction in costs for city councils and an improvement in the availability and security of public services.
At the same time and in terms of digital security, other projects will continue, such as the implementation of the Security Operations Center (SOC) in the 17 town halls with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants and its certification in the National Security Scheme; or the Data Protection Delegate service, which is provided to town halls to resolve issues on this subject.
Daniel González also highlighted that close to 80% of the administrative management of all these projects falls on the Cabildo, which makes it easier for all municipalities that wish to do so to take advantage of this Modernization Plan, which includes 743,000 euros of funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, earmarked for the digital transformation of town halls with less than 20,000 inhabitants.
