"Transparent Albania" for an open government - Rama: Unique portal for easier and faster access to information
"Transparent Albania" is the platform that was presented at the end of "Integrity Week". This new platform initiated by the Albanian government aims to increase transparency in budget spending by offering citizens, organizations and the media easier and faster access to state information.
Adea Pirdeni, Minister of State for Public Administration and Anticorruption:
"Transparent Albania is a unique portal that will enable easier and faster access to a wide category of official information and direct contact with the source of official information, the public authorities. Of course, as we promised, budget transparency will be the watchword of this main platform. The planned budget and the actual spent budget will be easily readable for citizens and businesses, through a visual graphic overview on the basis of data periodically reconciled with the Ministry of Finance and especially with the treasury. The information will be disaggregated into domestic and foreign financing, and then a separate overview is dedicated to financing for projects in each sector, including the percentage of realization. The data on the demo page that we presented are indicative, but with the full operation of the site, every citizen will be able to download the required information in a simple and understandable format, and of course all these data are reflected at once to the website of the Ministry of Finance."
In his speech, Prime Minister Rama emphasized that with this platform every citizen can turn to any institution for information. It will also follow in real time the status of the request it has made.
"Another important innovation is its interactivity. Today, if a citizen addresses an institution and does not receive an answer in time, he addresses the commissioner. The commissioner addresses the institutions, in 70% of cases the answer is given in seconds. Delays not related to any purpose, but to the underestimation or lack of this habit of the administration to respond in real time. Meanwhile, the other 30% is more complex. With the platform, anyone who addresses any institution for information will follow the status of the request in real time. The platform has a mechanism that signals the institution that this request is heading towards burning the deadline. And so he puts everyone in the institution in front of the responsibility. But it gives the institution, the overview of the performance with this primary obligation of the executive with the citizen. I believe that this element related to the processing of each request will help to increase the responsibility and the feeling to respond."
At the end of the "Integrity Week", for the ambassador of the European Union in Tirana Silvio Gonzato, the discussions of the meetings have offered new thoughts for the future in the private and public sector.
"Today we see the end of an integrity week that has been full of sessions that have made us think about many things. And I am sure that all these discussions have offered new thoughts about the situation but also about the future of integrity in the public and private sectors. Because integrity means doing the right thing, not because it might be the easiest thing to do but because ethically it is the right choice to make and it is in accordance with the law. It means honesty and it means you have strong moral principles and values.”
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