Mayor Francisco Azcué launched the Open Data Portal of the Municipality of Concordia, a digital tool that allows for enhancing transparency and citizen participation. Andrés Ibarra, president of the Open and Digital Country Foundation (PAD) and former Minister of Modernization of the Nation, was present. “It is a tool so that everyone can access information regarding the management of resources,” stated the Mayor.
With the objective of consolidating and strengthening the transparency policies carried out by the administration, Mayor Francisco Azcué launched the Open Data Portal of the Municipality of Concordia, for which he was accompanied by Andrés Ibarra, president of the Open and Digital Country Foundation (PAD) and former Minister of Modernization of the Nation.
This action is part of the “Towards a Participatory Government” project, promoted by the aforementioned foundation and co-financed by the European Union. The initiative works together with municipalities, such as Concordia, to implement digital tools that enhance transparency, citizen participation, and open management.
It is a joint effort that seeks to modernize public administrations and strengthen citizens' trust by facilitating access to information and accountability. The macro objective is for technology to become a bridge to build closer, more efficient, and inclusive governments.
It should be noted that the Municipality of Concordia was chosen as one of the first 10 in the country to implement this tool out of a universe of 2500 municipalities.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Azcué highlighted that the Open Data Portal “is a milestone for the history of Concordia because it has to do with transparency, with different tools so that society, intermediate institutions, and the media can have information on the management of resources.”
The goal is for the entire flow of public data “to be freely accessible, and that is important because it generates trust, it ensures that we can be transparent in all administrative processes, in tenders and contracts, seeking to combat scourges such as corruption,” adding that this also brings greater efficiency in the spending and management of resources.
Azcué contextualizes the novelty within “a public policy that is a one-way path, there is no turning back, this will be the case throughout the administration, and we will continue taking the necessary steps to advance in this direction,” citing as an example, in this modernization process carried out by the Municipality, the possibility that from January 2025 a business can be authorized in 24 hours. “It is something that puts us at the forefront, along with the best municipalities in the country,” he affirmed.
SUPPORT
For his part, Ibarra pointed out that his arrival in the city is to “support an administration that is characterized by innovation, by seeking for Concordia that transformation in the management of the State, including these platforms that have to do with transparency.”
Among other things, he cited that this program “in which Concordia has been chosen to receive its benefits and the financing from the European Union to be able to install it, has to do with a decision to introduce these platforms for citizen participation and transparency, which are fundamental instances to strengthen democracy and point directly to how the resident connects with their municipality.”
Among the important axes, added the former Minister of Modernization, “is that this dynamic be accompanied by the training of human capital, which works and will have communication with the resident.”
Finally, the president of the Open and Digital Country Foundation highlighted that “we are selecting 10 municipalities out of the 2500 that the country has.” That selection is directly related “to the vocation they have in traveling this path of digitalization,” which is why Concordia is on the list of “the few chosen to be in this project.”
Present were the Secretary of Cabinet Coordination and Treasury Pablo Ferreyra; the Secretary of Government Luciano Dell´Olio; the Secretary of Productive Development Federico Schattenhofer; the comptroller of EDOS Javier Del Cerro; Leandro Garbarino, Undersecretary of the Strategic Projects Unit; the Director of Revenue Fernando Marsicano; members of the IT Directorate, among other officials.
With the objective of consolidating and strengthening the transparency policies carried out by the administration, Mayor Francisco Azcué launched the Open Data Portal of the Municipality of Concordia, for which he was accompanied by Andrés Ibarra, president of the Open and Digital Country Foundation (PAD) and former Minister of Modernization of the Nation.
This action is part of the “Towards a Participatory Government” project, promoted by the aforementioned foundation and co-financed by the European Union. The initiative works together with municipalities, such as Concordia, to implement digital tools that enhance transparency, citizen participation, and open management.
It is a joint effort that seeks to modernize public administrations and strengthen citizens' trust by facilitating access to information and accountability. The macro objective is for technology to become a bridge to build closer, more efficient, and inclusive governments.
It should be noted that the Municipality of Concordia was chosen as one of the first 10 in the country to implement this tool out of a universe of 2500 municipalities.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Azcué highlighted that the Open Data Portal “is a milestone for the history of Concordia because it has to do with transparency, with different tools so that society, intermediate institutions, and the media can have information on the management of resources.”
The goal is for the entire flow of public data “to be freely accessible, and that is important because it generates trust, it ensures that we can be transparent in all administrative processes, in tenders and contracts, seeking to combat scourges such as corruption,” adding that this also brings greater efficiency in the spending and management of resources.
Azcué contextualizes the novelty within “a public policy that is a one-way path, there is no turning back, this will be the case throughout the administration, and we will continue taking the necessary steps to advance in this direction,” citing as an example, in this modernization process carried out by the Municipality, the possibility that from January 2025 a business can be authorized in 24 hours. “It is something that puts us at the forefront, along with the best municipalities in the country,” he affirmed.
SUPPORT
For his part, Ibarra pointed out that his arrival in the city is to “support an administration that is characterized by innovation, by seeking for Concordia that transformation in the management of the State, including these platforms that have to do with transparency.”
Among other things, he cited that this program “in which Concordia has been chosen to receive its benefits and the financing from the European Union to be able to install it, has to do with a decision to introduce these platforms for citizen participation and transparency, which are fundamental instances to strengthen democracy and point directly to how the resident connects with their municipality.”
Among the important axes, added the former Minister of Modernization, “is that this dynamic be accompanied by the training of human capital, which works and will have communication with the resident.”
Finally, the president of the Open and Digital Country Foundation highlighted that “we are selecting 10 municipalities out of the 2500 that the country has.” That selection is directly related “to the vocation they have in traveling this path of digitalization,” which is why Concordia is on the list of “the few chosen to be in this project.”
Present were the Secretary of Cabinet Coordination and Treasury Pablo Ferreyra; the Secretary of Government Luciano Dell´Olio; the Secretary of Productive Development Federico Schattenhofer; the comptroller of EDOS Javier Del Cerro; Leandro Garbarino, Undersecretary of the Strategic Projects Unit; the Director of Revenue Fernando Marsicano; members of the IT Directorate, among other officials.