The Government Delegation in the Canary Islands celebrates Open Administration Week 2024 through a series of activities that will take place in its island headquarters in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro from June 10 to 14.
This initiative, coordinated and promoted by the General Directorate of Public Governance of the Government of Spain and framed in the International Alliance for Open Government, seeks to bring Public Administrations closer to the citizens, based on the principles of transparency, accountability, citizen participation, public integrity and collaboration.
Anselmo Pestana, the Government’s delegate in the Canary Islands, said: “Once again, we will not miss the appointment of transparency and the search for citizen participation from that part of our daily activity that is the most purely administrative, which, as a representation of the Government of Spain, obliges us to make the Canaries and the Canaries feel that the State offers them services of proximity, which guarantees the exercise of their rights also more than 1,500 kilometers away from the headquarters of the Ministries.”
“This is one of the most important weeks for this house and for our seven Canary Island headquarters, because it is when we openly invite all citizens to come, meet us, raise their concerns and also propose areas of improvement to offer them the best possible service. It is the week in which I, particularly as a government delegate, can only highlight the very important work carried out by all the public employees of the Government Delegation, its two sub-delegations, and the five Island Directorates”, he adds.
From Monday 10th to Friday 14th June
The Government delegate in the Canary Islands will open the Open Administration Week on Monday, June 10 in La Palma, in an act of exhibition of the means of security, defense and emergencies in the municipality of Santa Cruz de La Palma organized by the Insular Directorate of the General Administration of the State and the City Council of the capital and in which the mayor and national deputy Asier Antona will also participate.
The Insular Directorate in La Palma has organized for that week another series of informative initiatives ranging from the workshops on cybersecurity taught by the Civil Guard and on consular assistance to victims of gender violence to a new visit of the Plan "The Administration near you" launched by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.
Sessions have also been organized on the relationship between the Government and the State Administration with the two national parliamentary chambers, in which the senator for La Palma Kilian Sánchez and the deputy for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Sergio Matos will speak, accompanied by the island director Ana María de León.
In Gran Canaria, the headquarters of the Delegation of the Government in the Canary Islands / Subdelegation of the Government in Las Palmas opens its doors to the citizens on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for a visit to its building of the Plaza de la Feria of the capital of Gran Canaria, in which the staff of the house will inform the attendees about the services offered.
On Thursday, June 13, in the framework of the Open Administration Week, the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women and Casa África have organized the First Conference on the Rights of Migrant Women Victims of Gender Violence, in which experts in the field, staff of the Office of Foreigners of the Government Subdelegation in Las Palmas and of the Government Delegation Unit itself will address the specific obstacles faced by African migrant women victims of this social scourge.
As hosts of this day, which will take place in the Throne Room of the Delegation of the Government in the Canary Islands, they will exercise the subdelegate of the Government in Las Palmas, Teresa Mayans, and the general director of Casa África, José Segura.
On Friday, June 14, the Canaries Space Center of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) takes the witness as a Public Research Agency under the Ministry of Defense to report on its route, international relevance and projects, being one of the five space centers supporting missions and receiving satellite data in the world.
The director of the Canaries Space Center, José Álvaro Martínez-Villalobos, accompanied by the government delegate, will report on the activity of this space located in the south of the island of Gran Canaria.
In Tenerife, the Subdelegation of the Government has organized a series of open doors sessions for citizens to offer information on the services it provides, in which, among others, attendees can accompany a hygienic-sanitary inspection on board a ship.
Not only will it report on the work of its Health and Social Policy Unit, it will also highlight the work of the Inspection Services of the Agriculture and Fisheries Unit, as well as the resources that the State makes available to victims of gender-based violence, and access to e-government.
In La Gomera technology is also the main protagonist, with workshops on security and privacy in communications aimed at adolescents and elderly people and taught by the Civil Guard and the Computer Staff of the Island Directorate, as well as talks on Artificial Intelligence by the island director of the General Administration of the State on the island, Juan Luis Navarro, who is an expert university professor in the field.
On Friday, June 14, the island director in La Gomera will accompany Deputy Esther Rodríguez and Senator Fabián Chinea in a session in which the two Canarian parliamentarians will address the relationship between the General Administration of the State and the Cortes Generales.
The Island Directorates in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura have organized for Tuesday, June 11, open days with guided tours in which it is intended to publicize the services that the General Administration of the State offers in these islands, and the Island Directorate in El Hierro will do the same on Wednesday, June 12.