Portal de Las Torres de Cotillas
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One of the greatest challenges currently facing a public administration as close and direct as a city council can be is to put into operation citizen participation channels in line with the most transparent open lines of government action every day.
More and more Local Corporations are fulfilling this challenge focused on structuring a participatory model of neighborhood scope to achieve a continuous and systematic management of the "public thing".
And it is that executing democracy should not only mean for the citizen to deposit his vote in an urn every four years, but that precise and appropriate mechanisms must be activated to articulate a system of increasingly stable and effective relations.
We are in front of a commitment to increase the capacity of accountability and to achieve a greater involvement of the neighbors either in the work of municipal management or in the strategy to serve for decision making.
On a double front.
On the one hand, with regard to transparency, to allow the citizen to access information on the tasks of government of their municipality, their databases, their projects, plans and management proposals, to consolidate their confidence indexes. .. On the other hand, in citizen participation when development, execution and analysis of public work is concerned, which will make the municipalities benefit from the knowledge, experiences, ideas and suggestions of the neighbors and thus respond better to your needs and demands.
In this sense, there are pioneering initiatives throughout the national geography such as, through the municipal websites as a sample button, the neighbors can choose which works, services and actions in various areas of local management to undertake and for those that the corresponding Consistory will establish the necessary economic endowment for its viability and fixed previously in participative budgets-.
It is to articulate projects ready to be executed for the well-being of the daily life of the neighbors because it is not in vain that they formulate the proposals and that they would be voted on attending, for example, to the support of free software technological tools.
In a word, an initiative that is immensely striking and interesting is that of participatory budgets that show that Spanish town halls are capable of doing it and know how to do it.
Juan José Ruiz Moñino.
Source: JJRM
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