Abuse of power, corruption, lawlessness, lack of transparency were the main focus of news in recent weeks. Touched in any order of Civil Protection, the National Council of Public Works, some telephone companies, the senators of the Republic, judges. A tangle of events, a multitude of characters, an intricate tangle of collusion and complicity in which the twists of reality outperformed the inventions of the imagination.
The Court of Auditors, for its part, has renewed the annual cry of pain on Italy waste of dishonesty, crimes against public administration. Public funds withheld from the public policy and the administration colluded are considerable. As a result, many people get the impression that the institutions themselves living illegally every day and go away with understandable disgust from this strange zoo.
The Government has announced a new measure against corruption. The news we have is sketchy and still expect to carefully study the text. We know, for now, the measure contains a set of tools - a national anti-corruption observatory on corruption, public works and database enhancement of transparency with the use of new technologies pushed - that should help to prevent corruption in public administrations.
As we read in the press of government, the government should publish information on corporate websites to administrative proceedings "sensitive" authorizations, concessions, public procurement, disbursement of economic benefits to individuals or public or private, competitions and career progression . Contracting authorities must forward promptly and directly to the Supervisory Authority, all data relating to contracts for works, services and supplies in order to achieve its registry and allow the ability to know the contractual activity of the PA, as well as other subjects required to comply with the law on public procurement. Should then increase controls on local and impediments to candidates for public office individuals who have committed crimes.
will serve yet another law? In Italy - the people know this - there are rules. Indeed, there is too much. Missing the application. It lacks the transparency of actions, behaviors, outcomes. Because the transparency is not confined to managers on salaries of public curiosity or in the preparation of the entrance turnstiles. Transparency is something more. Means lowering the barriers to access to information. Allow citizens to 'pry' administrative action. Know if your practice or its application be successful without the need to 'put oil in the engine'. Accept the assessment of civic services and the direct intervention in administrative activities by the stakeholders.
long way we still do. Some time ago, when he began to ask themselves the question of reconstruction in Abruzzo, civic organizations came forward. Perhaps it would help at that stage, to promote participatory forms of democracy on the Abruzzi to involve citizens and to help rebuild their control over the works. But not if they did nothing. And now you pay the consequences ...
In short, transparency is a serious matter, one of the key elements through which citizens can ask institutions account for their actions, ensure the traceability of administrative acts, take part in the full cycle of policy making, to enforce the laws and behavior. Only then, finally, you can not expect the accountability of public entities.
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