Granada City Council is no stranger to the social context in which forms of relationship with citizens are under review, and the demand for an administration with "glass walls". Transparency entails benefits for public management: it improves its efficiency, by making the results of its activity public and accessible, it brings its action closer to the citizens who participate as an active agent, and it facilitates the ability to review the traceability of the decisions adopted. The Granada City Council Open Data Portal is dedicated to promoting access to municipal government data and promoting the development of creative tools to attract and serve the city's citizens.
Open Data (open data in English) is a global initiative, linked to Open Government policies, which seeks to ensure that data and information, especially those held by public administrations, are published in an open, regular and reusable way for the entire world. world, without access restrictions, copyright, patents or other control mechanisms.
The original philosophy of these initiatives is to promote transparency, efficiency, citizen participation and economic development. Serve individual interested persons and companies, so that they can use public information:
- for simple queries
- to enrich the information with new data (give added value)
- to generate applications and services
- to generate new business
Provide greater transparency to the Public Administrations as a whole, the publication of the data held by the Administrations in open formats is the optimal way to generate trust in the institutions, because it exposes the work that is carried out in the different institutions and shows how they are managed and invest public resources helps general economic development, the generation of new sectors and new services for citizens
