There was talk of the obligations and opportunities for improvement for the organization of the public administration on the day on the administrative transparency of the Calabria Region, organized by the regional manager of the prevention of corruption and transparency, open to all regional employees, who took place at the regional citadel in Catanzaro.
“It is a very important day in which we will talk about the glass palace which is our regional headquarters”.
These are the words expressed by the Councilor for Economic Development of the Calabria Region, Rosario Varì, in his introduction to the day on administrative transparency, after addressing the greetings to the speakers and you have regional employees also present by the President of the Region, Roberto Occhiuto, and the vice -president and councilor for the branch, Filippo Pietropaolo “.
“Today – underlined Varì – it is a day to emphasize the commitment of the Region to administrative transparency that must be not an obligation but an opportunity, because it represents one of the most powerful tools that we have available to improve the efficiency of the public administration. Transparency determines efficiency, innovation and, above all, the trust towards public institutions by citizens. Obviously there are limits that must be compared to the protection of privacy and, even if it does not concern the government. regional, national security “.
Our goal – concluded Vari – is to make the Calabria Region a reference model in terms of transparency and administrative innovation, showing that a more open and accessible public administration is possible and brings concrete benefits to the whole community, to all citizens who will also be able to verify how their money and the resources we have available and be closer to politics and the regional body “is spent.
The works of the initiative were launched by the head of prevention, corruption and transparency, Roberto Cosentino, and by the data protection manager, of the Calabria Region, Angela starred.
“The day of transparency of the Calabria Region – said Cosentino – is dedicated to our administration and also to citizens who look at us and who are waiting to receive services up to par. The regulatory scaffolding, which has to do with the prevention of corruption and transparency and protection of personal data, is an obligation to which all public administrations must fulfill. Therefore, the purpose of this day, and of the model we are trying to build, Yes that these actions become tools for our regional administration to work better, the organization is efficient and because citizens have respect and attention on our part that, every day, we work to improve the functioning of the administrative machine, bringing efficiency, innovation and trust “.
“The citadel must be a glass house – the Cosentino regional manager also specified – and the citizens must know what we do. Our authority is also based on this. The bureaucracy must be able to implement the addresses of politics and politics must have and has attention to the separation also of the roles and tasks between bureaucracy and politics. And we are all committed because our daily life is increasingly linked to the product of our actions. Calabresi “.
Angela Stellato explained that “The day of transparency of the Calabria Region this year wanted to subvert the usual vision that we have of these moments, bringing to the center the theme of the public organization as a whole, to restore even a greater sense of belonging that we operators must have. It is certainly a different approach that will make the public administration more functional in the whole. Today we have exceptional speakers who will demonstrate just how it is possible to change a Opportunities to improve the organization as a whole. in particular, we must address a particularly thanks to Dr. Agostino Ghiglia, member of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data, which is already the second time that returns to Calabria, and which will show us how it is possible to guarantee transparency without forgetting data protection in a region like ours that is committing a lot so that, in carrying out its institutional tasks, the protection of confidentiality is always guaranteed. “
“How do you guarantee the balance between the needs for the protection of privacy and administrative transparency? It is one thing – Ghiglia replied – which may seem difficult but in reality it is fundamental because if the public administration must be the home of all, it must be transparent to ensure to all citizens who have a right to obtain from the public administration any type of documentation or information. At the same time, it is equally necessary to protect the citizen with his humanity. Secondness, its confidentiality.
On the merits of the tools to guarantee all this, Ghiglia explained that it is necessary, on the one hand, to apply the European General Regulation for the protection of personal data of each citizen and, on the other, to guarantee administrative transparency also through the websites that users can easily access all the information he needs in order to assert his rights.
At the meeting, among others, given their contribution on the topic: Marzia Ventura, associated professor of corporate organization at the Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro; Gianni Montesarchio, full professor of dynamic psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome; Mario Caligiuri, full professor of Pedagogy of communication at the University of Calabria, president and member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Intelligence Society; Lino Polimeni, author, producer and TV presenter.
By all, the awareness that administrative transparency is now considered no longer only as a regulatory obligation, on the contrary, if well implemented, in synergy to the protection of personal data, it can become a strategic value to improve the functioning of the public administration, bringing efficiency, innovation and trust to all citizens.
The areas of improvement of the administrative transparency started within the organization of the Calabria Region concern: the improvement of efficiency and internal management for the contrast to waste and corruption; innovation and digitization with open data and artificial intelligence and interoperability between public administrations; the increase in participation and trust by citizens also to improve the reputation of the body.