The "La Palma Smart Island" initiative is a project of the Island Council of La Palma selected as a beneficiary of the "I Call for Smart Islands" within the framework of the Digital Agenda for Spain. It is developed through a collaboration agreement with RED.ES, a public business entity of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation and is co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Smart Growth Operational Program (POCInt).
The objective of the "I Call for Smart Islands" is to promote projects that integrate the smart island strategy, contribute to the improvement of public services in the territory and are aimed at mitigating the negative effects of insularity, through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
The "La Palma Open Island" project aims to modernize and improve digital public services and island public administration, targeting citizens and companies, rationalizing their operating expenses and reducing their environmental footprint.
It also intends to create the first data processing center and a shared management model for island-wide digital services, where all public administrations will work together. This action will allow improvements in management and cost reduction, while optimizing energy consumption, reducing the environmental footprint and CO2 emissions, and improving the image of a sustainable tourist destination in line with the declaration of Fuerteventura as a Reserve of the Biosphere and as a UNESCO Starlight Reserve.
The initiative is led by the Cabildo Insular de la Palma, Barlovento Town Hall, Breña Alta Town Hall, Breña Baja Town Hall, El Paso Town Hall, Fuencaliente Town Hall, Garafía Town Hall, Los Llanos de Ariadne Town Hall, Puntagorda Town Hall, Puntallana Town Hall, San Andrés y Sauces Town Hall, Santa Cruz de La Palma Town Hall, Tazacorte Town Hall, Tijarafe Town Hall, Villa de Mazo Town Hall), the private sector and other economic and social agents.
The "La Palma Open Island" initiative aims to make this island a more intelligent territory, promoting the development of a coordinated set of actions, through the use of ICT. Its purposes are the following:
- Develop valuable digital infrastructures, products and services. They will be usable, open, accessible, efficient, sustainable, interoperable, scalable, secure and satisfactory to citizens, visitors and companies. In this way it will improve the quality of life of citizens and the competitiveness of companies.
- Make possible a more effective and efficient allocation of public resources.
- Reduce the environmental footprint of public administrations.
- Promote technology-based island entrepreneurial activity.
Among the components planned in the "La Palma Open Island" initiative is the implementation of an Open Government Platform for the fourteen Town Halls and the Fuerteventura Cabildo, organized into the four pillars on which the concept of open government is traditionally structured. : Open Data, Transparency, Participation and Volunteering.
The Platform consists of:
- Open Government Portal, as a shuttle to the different applications and where there is open government information content such as news, agenda and blog.
- Open Data Portal, which brings together, stores and distributes the data sets published by the different island administrations
- Transparency Portals, one for each of the island administrations, where organized information can be published in the areas and transparency obligations defined by Canary Islands legislation.
- Citizen Participation Portals, one for each of the island administrations, where digital tools are provided for the active participation of citizens in shaping public policies.
- Volunteer Portal