The FEMP asks to Industry the improvement of the services of telecommunications in the municipalities

The Commission of the Information Society and New Technologies of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) has gathered in the enclosure of Fira of Lleida in the frame of the 17ª edition of Municipalia. The members of the commission have agreed to ask to the Ministry of Industry the improvement of the services of telecommunications (a greater deployment of the broadband) in the municipalities and the approval of a Plan of Extension of Mobile Telephony that guarantee the services of communication in the rural surroundings.

On the other hand, the commission will participate in a project of divulging and promotion of the implantation of the electronic bill. This project will involve an important saving of time and money, in addition to the improvement of the processes and the reduction of the terms of payment.

Also has carried out the presentation of the project Open DAI of the City council of Lleida, that has been pioneering in the called Open Dates, the systems of open data that allow to put to the service of the citizens and the companies the municipal information. From February of 2011 the City council of Lleida has public data to disposal of the citizens and the companies. Fruit of this project, the City council of Lleida participates in the project Opening Dates architectures and Infrastructures of European Public Administration (Open DAI), funded by the European Commission.

Lleida incorporates the concept of crowd-sourcing, that facilitates that the same citizens contribute data that can be used by the rest, as for example data referents to the accessibility (in collaboration with Aspid and the ONCE).