DIAVGEIA AND PUBLIC CONSULTATION

Diavgeia application is open in the air since 2011. Through Diavgeia all administrative acts are published on the website www.diavgeia.gov.gr and they are made subject to audits by all who have an interest. Posting of these public acts is categorized. The goal for Diavgeia app was to be a policy tool for clarity and transparency. This was achieved to a point.

The problem which had been occurred concerns the application’s possibility to inform citizens on the spot and be informed by them. This could be a second step towards the openness of decision-making in the Greek government.

A feature this presentation intends to recommend is related to the connection of each act that is being published through Diavgeia application to an open pending application that enables citizens to react instantly and simultaneously towards the public decisions.

How does openness affect feedback of the citizens? Data is not itself Knowledge and Information. The implementation of Diavgeia App does not consider what happens after people are able to access and internalize open data. Once people know things about public decisions they act, but their actions are not being transformed into knowledge for their government.

Transparency is being succeeded by the app Diavgeia but accountability has not. Do citizens have the capability to take action? 

There are a lot of open spending applications all over the world. This presentation wants to propose a synthesis between Diavgeia app and CitizenBudget app. A simple add of CitizenBudget app inside the Diavgeia app could transform this transparency initiative entirely at its focus-background.