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Awards and recognitions

The Transparency Portal and other measures of the Commission for the Reform of Public Administrations (CORA) have received several awards and recognitions.

  • ElAsedie Award 2015,granted the Multisectoral Information Association “for being a pillar of Open Government”. The Award aims to highlight the importance of information in the development of the Spanish and global economy, within the framework of Asedie’s project to promote awareness of the value of data openness and security in business to boost economic development, fostering collaboration of all those involved in the general interest.
  • ElAUTELSI Award 2016,in the category ofProject or technology initiative in the public servicegranted by the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Users and the Information Society. The award recognises the merits and effort made in this innovative project that contributes to the development of the information society in Spain.
  • Likewise, the Portal has been awarded as a successful case of digital transformation in the AA. PP:, in the category of “eTechnology - Open Data”, in the VIII Convocation of theAwards from the Association of Network, Internet and Telecommunications System Providers (@asLAN) 2016,for its contribution to the transparency of public activity and access to information within the General Administration of the State, in compliance with Law 19/2013, of 9 December, on Transparency, Good Governance and Access to Public Information.

Various private bodies and entities, national and international, have granted their recognition to the CORA measures by awarding prizes in the following categories:

  • The system of prior appointment of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), which avoids the long queues of citizens in the offices of the SEPE, has deserved one of the Awards for Quality and Innovation in Public Management for 2013.
  • The Data Intermediation Platform, which to date has allowed the exchange of more than 60 million data from various types of certificates, received the United Nations Special Award for Public Services, in its 2014 edition. Thanks to this measure, citizens and companies are prevented from travelling to provide documents that are already in the hands of the Public Administrations.
  • The project Undertake in 3, developed with the participation of the AGE, LAS CC.AA. and the EE.LL., received in October 2014 the First Prize in the category Improvement in the business environment in the eighth edition of the European Business Promotion Awards.
  • The French media group "Acteurs Publics", specialized in administration and public service, awarded the award 'Victoires des Acteurs Publics' in its category International - International Public Administration Award 2015- to the Reform of the AA.PP. and the Transparency Act, considering that in Spain "after years of efforts, reforms in the public sector bear fruit".
  • El General Access Point (PAG) received Internet Award 2015 To the best public services page. With this measure, citizens and companies have the information in a single repository, without having to make multiple queries to different pages on the Internet, with the consequent saving of resources and avoiding the existence of contradictory information when consulting different electronic sites.
  • El Portal Your Social Security he has received Certificate of Merit in the contest for the Prize Good Practices of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) for the Europe region 2016. From the Portal you can manage all the services provided by this web space, such as consultations and request for benefits, obtaining certificates or requesting the European Health Card, among others.
  • In three other categories, this same Association has awarded the @asLAN Awards 2016 To projects:
    • Project Cl@veFira: Electronic signature using electronic certificates, in the category Government-Legitimation;
    • Project Electronic communication of births from health centres to Civil Registries of the Ministry of Justice, in category eGovernment-Processing.
    • Project Ultra-fast Broadband for Spanish Schools (Connectivity in schools) in the category eEducation-Digital Transformation
  • The system FACe (General Entry Point of Electronic Invoices of the General Administration of the State) has received the CNIS Award 2016, awarded by the Innovation Club, in the category of Cloud Services Strategy and the Prize @asLAN 2016, in category EGovernment-Processing.