El Ayuntamiento de Madrid se abre a los ciudadanos en la Semana de la Administración Abierta

The Madrid City Council will celebrate the Open Administration Week from this Monday until May 25 with various activities, including visits to municipal data centers, talks, and awards ceremonies, so that citizens can learn about the information available on municipal websites or guess curiosities about the city through various games with open data on social media.

Madrid’s Deputy Mayor, Inma Sanz, will kick off this week with the inauguration of the ‘Conference on transparency, clear communication, and artificial intelligence’ for local entities, taking place this Monday at the Cecilio Rodríguez Gardens, organized by the City Council, together with the Community of Madrid and the Madrid Municipalities Federation.

The goal is for attendees, mostly officials from Madrid’s local entities, to see transparency as an added value in their work and be able to improve the public service they provide.

Transparency and Integrity

The Open Administration Week is an initiative promoted by the Open Government Partnership at a global level to disseminate its principles and practices and create a culture based on the values of transparency and integrity, civic participation, promotion of fundamental rights, and accountability.

The Madrid City Council is the only Spanish municipality with an active role in this alliance.

In addition to the conference for local entities, the institutional advertising campaign promoting transparency, open data, and access to public information will be reinstated on the advertising panels of EMT Madrid and other media, representing a new gesture from the Madrid City Council in its commitment to this area.

Open House Events

During the open house events, Madrid residents can visit, upon registration, the Madrid Calle 30 Data Center and the headquarters where the Air Quality Portal and meteorological data are managed, both on May 20.

On May 22, the Traffic Police Judicial Station can be visited, where they will explain the public data sets related to the Municipal Police, and finally, on the 23rd, a visit related to the Urban Facilities Control Center (public lighting, tunnels, and ornamental fountains) will be organized, where public data sets about these facilities will be explained.

The Deputy Mayor will also participate in the awards ceremony for transparency and open data, which will reward the best municipal units in three categories: active advertising, access to public information, and open data.

The General Directorate of Transparency and Quality has also prepared a series of games with open data that will be published on social media, aiming to inform people about the longest street in Madrid, the temperature of their neighborhood, or the most read books in libraries, among other relevant information about the city.

A presentation and a test are also available for educational centers and 5th and 6th-grade students who have contents on democracy, human rights, and participation in their study plans.