OPEN DATA REUSE IV
1.4 AN OUTSTANDING
The results of the Catalonia model of open government are the following: • Approximately 1,230 local entities use AOC services. • 85 % of citizens say they are satisfied or very satisfied. • The degree of compliance with the transparency law in Catalonia is 50 % higher than in the rest of Spain, according to data from Infoparticipa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). • Savings of 5 million euros per year are generated in administrative transparency tasks.
AUTONOMOUS APPROACH: OPEN ADMINISTRATION OF CATALONIA
The Open Administration of Catalonia Consortium (AOC) seeks to guarantee that all citizens of Catalonia enjoy quality digital public services, regardless of their municipality of residence and the capabilities and resources of the public bodies they engage with. The great challenge we have is that more than 90 % of public entities are of a reduced or very reduced size and do not have the resources to comply with very demanding standards, which are the same for a large administration or a small-town council. Regarding the practice of open government and good governance, the AOC offers local administrations the following common services: • Transparency portal • Open data platform • Whistleblower channel • Citizen participation platform • Institutional integrity self-assessment guide
1.5 THE DATA REUSE MODEL
MELODA is a metric for assessing the quality of open data that enables users to qualify information and evaluate its degree of reuse (Abella, Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, De-Pablos- Heredero, 2014). MELODA 4 was the version used in the 2017 (Abella, Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, De-Pablos-Heredero, 2017) and 2019 (Abella, Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, De-Pablos-Heredero, Vidal-Cabo and Ferrer-Sapena, 2019) reports. In its current version, MELODA 5 evaluates two additional dimensions and features a modification to the levels and calculations (Abella, Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, De-Pablos- Heredero, 2019), as can be seen in Table 2.
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