Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin The Public Information Bulletin Portal – An Open Platform for the Citizen – Local Government Interaction by: Arek Zlotnicki Cities on Internet Association

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Agenda 1. What does Public Information Bulletin stand for? – introduction 2. Legal background 3. Obligations of local governments 4. Open Administration – PIB pilot project u Beneficiaries u Partnership – patronage principle u Range of information u System advantages

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin PIB – what is it? Public Information Bulletin is a special Internet portal (platform) which public bodies are obliged to create and make accessible for citizens information defined by law as „public information”. Open Administration PIB - Pilot Project developed by COI and Rodan Systems S.A. aiming at building capacity of local governments to fulfill above obligations in initial stage and setting up platform for wide class of e-government services in the future.

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Legal background  Fredom of Information Act, 6th September 2001 (Dz.U Nr 112, poz. 1198),  Decree of Minister of Interior and Public Administration, 17th May 2002, about Public Information Bulletin (Dz.U Nr 67, poz. 619).

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Legal obligation Creation of individual sites of Public Information Bulletin under the conditions of the FOI Act and the decree Individual sites have to be created till July, 1st 2003 at latest.

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Range of information No.Range of informationDeadline 1. Interior and foreign policy, including: a)Tasks intended by legislative authority and executive authority, b)Projecting normative acts, c)Programmes of realisation of public tasks, means of their realisation, execution and results of such tasks Information about subjects, which are obliged to publish: a)legal status or legal form, b)inside structure, c)competences and range of their activities, d)bodies and persons holding functions and their competences, e)ownership structure of subjects, f)subjects’ assets Information about: a)Course of action of public authorities and their organizational units, b)Course of action of national legal entities and local government legal entities in the filed of performing public tasks, and their tasks in the filed of budget and non budget economy, c)Means of providing public legal acts, d)Means of accepting and solving cases, e)State of accepted cases, order in which there are solved and decided, registries kept, evidences and archives, and ways and rules of providing access to such data

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Range information (2) 4. Information about public data, including: a) Form and content of official documents, in particular: - content of administrative acts and other decisions, - records of proceedings and effects of controls, pleadings, positions, motions and opinions of bodies, which carried it through, b) Standpoints on public matters undertaken by public authority bodies and public servants, according to understanding of rules of the Penal Code, a) Content of other motions and evaluations done by public authority bodies, b) Information about the state of the nation, self-government and its organization units Information about state of accepted cases, order in which there are solved or decided by public administration offices, Records of proceedings and effects of controls, pleadings, positions, motions and opinions of bodies, which carried it through Information about public assets, including: a) Assets of National Treasury and national legal entities, b) Other property laws to which nation is entitled and its debts, c) Assets of territorial self-government, economic and professional units and assets of self- government legal entities. d) Assets of subjects mentioned in art. 4 part 1 pt. 5, coming from disposing of assets as written in point a) - c), profits of these assets and its encumbrances, e) Earnings and losses of commercial companies, in which subjects mentioned in points a)-c), have dominating position according to understanding of rules of Commercial Code, and about disposing these earnings and means of covering losses, f) Public debts, g) Public aid, h) Public burden

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Beneficiaries 2478 municipalities 314 districts 16 voivodships

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Partnership and patronage principle Ministry of Interior and Public Administration Union of Lubelski Region Municipalities Association of Rural Municipalities

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Functional architecture

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin System Advantages Political Transparency of local governments Civic empowerment and local capacity enhancement Fulfilling guidlines of European Commission regarding to public information Technological ASP – Application Service Provision XML standard relational data bases Financial Minimizing cost of implementation of solutions and tasks required by law Public Private Partnership model

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin System advantages Openess for the future expanssion of systems services leading to creation of a fully functional e-government platform tools for open consultations increasing interactions between citizens and local governments PKI communication with internal information manegement system and data flow Implementation e-services

Cities on Internet Association Public Information Bulletin Thank you Cities on Internet Association Tarnów, ul. Krakowska 11a Tel Contact: Arkadiusz Zlotnicki