EUROSAI. Magazine N21 - 2015

EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS Eurosai Activities 14 www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 about the strengths of the joint work that have developed in the coordinated audits. It was underlined that that these audits strengthen the organizational systems and professional skills of the work teams. To achieve these goals, it became clear, that it is important to promote continuous training programs, using long distance education tools to share experiences from around the world. The participants specified that these audits facilitate the integration of the SAIs aimed at a common goal. However, they recognized the lack of a regional legislation that enables the implementation of international standards to apply. It was suggested the entailment of international bodies to this practice in order to validate the technical reports and to have higher legal force. Good Governance For the EUROSAI President, Mr. Arno Visser, the perspective of good governance is different in the countries around the world; however, all of them have common backgrounds. Mr. Visser cited the Netherland´s example; which its good governance is based on the 1600 Dutch Revolution, related with taxes. Later, “with the French Revolution new issues such as freedom of expression, religion, and conscience were introduced.” In North America, the revolution was caused by a tax issue. What these events have in common? In all of them were identify matters that had to change the constitutionally established values, that generated changes for a new democracy. In this regard, the role of the SAIs is to lead the institutions towards ethics and to promote more citizen participation. In good governance, values established constitutionally are identified to generate changes for the benefit of a new democracy. On the other hand, the “Open Data” can help to get large profits, such as measuring public service efficiency. Open Data “The public sector information that is available to any citizen” is the conceptualization provided by Mr. Ryan Androsoff, representative of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), to the “Open Data”. This is an issue that has been listed as a paradigm by governments and public institutions in the world. At the moment, there are success cases that have shown that the proper use of public information can help to get great advantages such as the measurement of the public service efficiency. We should not forget the Data Analysis that establish the matters that are part of the public interest. This is about to get advantage of the new technological tools and through these, to generate results that can be useful for the enterprises creation; encouraging entrepreneurship; and even improving monetary opportunities for the citizens. In this sense, the strategic use of open data contains three types of values: economic, social and public governance. At the end of the Conference, the General Comptroller of Ecuador, Mr. Carlos Polit, highlighted the quality of discussions and stated that the results of the plenary and the working sessions would be disseminated throughout the international control community: “The problems identified in these discussions are common and the way how to face them also requires common efforts. During these two days, it have shown that in community is possible to advance in a sense of progress for our institutions and welfare of our citizens”. Mr. Arno Visser, President of EUROSAI