The Secretariat of State for Civil Service, through the General Directorate for Public Governance, organises the Open Administration Week of 2022, which will begin on Monday, June 27, throughout Spain. Open Administration Week is an initiative promoted internationally by the Open Government Alliance (OGP), which is held annually in all its member countries during the month of May, in order to bring their administrations closer to citizenship and promote the values of transparency and accountability, citizen participation, public integrity and social collaboration.
The aim is to open the doors of administrations to all those who want to know better how public organisations operate within and how services are provided to citizens.
Some of the highlights of the organization of the Open Administration Week are as follows:
- Registered activities. In the Open Government section of the Transparency Portal, 500 activities were registered using the form enabled for this purpose. Spain thus revalidates, one more year, its leadership among the 77 member states of the OGP, far from the following classified in the run-up to the organizers of the Week, which have been Mexico with 32; Italy with 21; Germany with 14; and the United States with 10.
- Participation of all public administrations. Of the 500 activities registered, 329 are organized by the General Administration of the State; 95 by the Autonomous Administrations; 20 by the Local Administration; and 56 by other entities, including universities.
- Type of events registered. During the 2022 Open Administration Week, open days, publications, campaigns and virtual content (videos, podcasts, applications, websites...), webinars and seminars, presentation of plans and programs and debates/colloquia, as well as participatory processes such as launches of consultations, contests and hackathon, interviews or other activities will be held.
The activities in which the Secretariat of State for Civil Service participates are as follows:
- Monday, 27 June. ‘Open Government for All’, organized jointly by the Secretariat of State for Civil Service with the Third Sector Platform, which brings together more than 28,000 Third Sector organizations at national level.
This event, aimed at people who are vulnerable or affected by the digital divide, complies with one of the actions provided for in the Partnership Convention signed at the end of November 2021 by the General State Administration and the Open Government Platform for Inclusive Communication, which has European funding with Next Generation funds.
The Conference will be inaugurated by José Luis Rodríguez, president of the Transparency and Good Government Council, and by Luciano Poyato, president of the Platform. It will be aimed at groups of people who are vulnerable or affected by the digital divide and at volunteering and staff of third sector entities, to publicise the Transparency Portal and to facilitate the exercise of the right to information and the participation of these people. The Conference will be closed by the Director-General for Public Governance.
- Tuesday, 28 June. Seminar on the ‘Role of constitutional and constitutional bodies and the reform of the transparency law’, organized by the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies and the Directorate-General for Public Governance. This seminar, which will be closed by the Secretary of State for Civil Service, Lidia Sánchez and the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Relations with the Courts, Rafael Simancas, will bring together leading representatives of the Congress of Deputies, the Senate and the General Council of the Judiciary, as well as of all constitutional bodies with constitutional relevance. She will also be assisted by the Director of the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies and the Director-General for Public Governance.
- Wednesday, 29 June. Workshop on open government and accessibility to classroom training mentor, organized by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Public Service and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.
People, especially rural women, who participate in the mentoring classrooms of local entities will be able to learn about the programme of the course on Open Government, as well as the Transparency Portal and how to participate in the elaboration of laws and other standards.
Mayors and mayors, councillors and teachers of the mentor classrooms will participate in the event.
- Thursday, June 30. Conference of the Community of Participation Practice. Organized by the National Institute of Public Administration and the General Directorate of Public Governance, this day will allow participants to share the progress of the work being carried out by this community, as well as the debate on them within the scope of their three sub-communities: processes, platforms and laboratories.
The event will be inaugurated by the Secretary of State and will be attended by the Director of the National Institute of Public Administration and the Director-General of Public Governance. The OECD analyst, David Goessmann, will be responsible for the framework conference.
- Friday, July 1. Open Doors Days in Government Delegations and Subdelegations. The conference, organized by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and the Ministry of Finance and Civil Service, will be attended by the members of the delegations and subdelegations of the Government and their respective Secretaries-General and, this year, will be aimed at the groups affected by the digital divide, vulnerable and at risk of social exclusion, to which the Portal of Transparency will be explained and how to exercise their public participation.
Three of the five types of events in which the Secretariat of State for Civil Service participates will be aimed at the most vulnerable or affected by the digital divide in order to make them aware of the Transparency Portal and how they can exercise their rights to information and participation.
The other two events will deal with the reform of the transparency law and the improvement of participation, both commitments included in the IV Open Government Plan of Spain 2020-2024.