The political management and, in particular, the work of public administrations such as that of a town hall has changed substantially in recent times.
It is an evolution that has been facilitated by the citizens themselves, in that demand, in that need of greater and better doses of transparency, efficiency and participation in the development and performance of the "public thing".
The emergence of new and more advanced systems of interactivity between public entities and citizens, between administrations and administrations, due to unimaginable technological developments only a few years ago, has led to the achievement of a closer, closer, clearer and more direct connection to the pair that more empowered by parameters of demand.
Thus, not a few Consistories strive to adapt their management tools and internal work to the social needs of the moment by accompanying in this task and strategy their reality that takes place, takes place in the street.
This is a commitment where the value added of initiatives should benefit the establishment of the Open Government more solidly and decisively every day, a quality mark that includes transparency, Open Data or openness in its tasks. data and the promotion of citizen participation playing an extraordinary role in this field the model of Participatory Budgeting.
With this tool of closeness and ambitious expectations of ample results, it is a matter of the citizens being able to directly choose the proposals, the projects, the actions, investments, services and services to be carried out in their immediate surroundings, in what comes to represent a pioneering idea.
In short, suggestions that are channeled through face-to-face and / or telematic forums through the municipal web portals where everyone has the possibility to choose / contribute their options and with the addition of enabling virtual tools that also offer to the neighbors of have on hand the monitoring of the status of these contributions.
We are before a line of work on which the municipalities must deepen because an administration as close as a Consistory to the task of gathering the opinion of the citizens must add the commitment of fully in the implementation of the projects that allow improving the municipalities and the welfare levels of their people.
Juan José Ruiz Moñino
Source: JJRM