OPEN ESKOLA development and strengthening of citizenship. (ESPV0003)

Commitment ID

ESPV0003

Commitment Title

OPEN ESKOLA development and strengthening of citizenship.

Problem

• The challenge consists of offering tools, mechanisms and models within the OPEN ESKOLA that favour and promote the education and training of citizens. The objective would be to generate the knowledge and skills necessary for citizen participation to be incorporated with full guarantees in the new model of PUBLIC GOVERNANCE.
• In order to respond to the various demands received from citizens, we consider it essential to USE and OPTIMISE a space such as the OPEN ESKOLA. In this space, we must identify the work commitments that must be implemented in the coming years to achieve an active, participatory and empowered citizenry.

Status quo

In terms of citizen participation, the global pandemic we are experiencing has created the need to face new challenges. We have new difficulties for citizens to participate or continue the empowerment process that has already begun.

Action

The OPEN ESKOLA allows the different institutions to have direct interaction with citizens and in this way try to offer them everything they need to:

• Train and prepare citizens and organisations to be able to take part in participatory processes in an effective way, in short, to improve citizen empowerment.
• Improve and ensure the results to be obtained in participatory processes.
• Offer accessible digital tools to citizens so that they can overcome digital inequalities (digital divide, digital literacy).
• Adapt to the emerging realities that have arisen as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic in terms of participation, gender, etc....
• To provide citizens with all the necessary training, technical and material resources to enable citizen participation to be incorporated as another element in the co-management of Public Governance.
• To provide a space in which to raise awareness and train citizens in the field of public ethics.
• To achieve an active community, open and willing to participate and assume the co-responsibility required in the Collaborative Governance model.

How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?

• To build an OPEN ESKOLA model that can be easily scalable to any municipality in the Basque Country.
• In the medium to long term, thanks to this training and empowerment, we will achieve greater citizen participation and, by raising awareness of public ethics, we will achieve greater levels of co-responsibility on the part of citizens.

What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?

It is a project that should be of use to all citizens and should be applicable to any municipality in the Basque Country. It is a project that should systematise the different processes that are experimented in these municipalities and that are shared within the Community of Practice (exchange of experiences). It is a space to work on raising citizens' awareness of PUBLIC ETHICS. We will develop the OPEN ESKOLA model to promote the vision of Open Government:

• Promoting continuous training processes; generating spaces for debate for citizens.
• Identifying the needs and shortcomings that citizens may have in order to take part in participatory processes and generate the resources to respond to this social demand.
• We will identify the new technological needs that have been magnified in this period of pandemic and have increased the digital divide. Once this digital divide has been identified, we will have to establish policies to combat it and thus ensure that everyone can participate equally.

Primary Policy Area

Civic Space, Digital Governance

Primary Sector

Public Services (general)

What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?