25-hour program certified by CIFAL Málaga-UNITAR

New free course offered by CIFAL Málaga to take advantage of confinement: Open Government and ODS

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CIFAL Málaga offers a different and productive way to spend your confinement with its free online courses. After a month of confinement, and in anticipation of its prolongation until May, a good idea to entertain yourself and also benefit from being at home, is to take advantage to train a little more. Thanks to new technologies, online training is easier than ever and allows you to learn at a distance with all the guarantees. At a time when we have seen the importance of good management of cities and institutions, CIFAL Malaga offers a free virtual course of great interest: Open Government and Sustainable Development Objectives. 

This course is especially oriented to the personnel of public administrations, institutions that work in the field of city management, teaching teams and, in general, to any person interested in learning more about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted by the United Nations (UN) and their importance for the effective management of cities and institutions. 

The main objective of this course is to promote social innovation in the public administration. To promote more legitimate government practices that involve citizens to a greater extent in order to provide better public services. In short, a program that seeks to train students in the implementation of strategies that achieve a more effective and sustainable management of cities. 

A program divided into four blocks and taught by first level teachers

This CIFAL Malaga course is divided into four general blocks which, in turn, are subdivided into several themes. The main content blocks are: Open Government and advanced management, Transparency and accountability in key communication, Citizen participation in key ODS, and Social innovation and communication from ODS.

In each of these topics, fundamental aspects for improving the management of cities and public institutions are addressed, such as: transparency as a basis for communication, strategies for adequate transparency, knowing what open government is and how to integrate its principles to achieve effective public management, advanced management of this open government, accountability, constructive strategies for citizen participation or how to implement social innovation plans; among other topics

The course is led by Rafael Ayala, an expert in good open government practices who works in both public and private institutions creating plans of this type. The rest of the teaching staff on this course also work in the field of open government in sections such as Open Data, transparency and accountability, among others. Ayala is accompanied by Ángel Bataller, Antxon Gallego, Beatriz Martínez, Fran López, Iván Gómez, Joseba Egía and Luis Madrid. 

For all those interested in learning more about how to apply ODS in the field of innovative management of cities and institutions, this course will be useful. The course is open to everyone, you just have to register on the website and you will be given the keys to access to all the contents. It lasts 25 hours, totally free and those who successfully pass all the evaluations will obtain a certificate issued by CIFAL Málaga and UNITAR which will be issued, for those who wish, by paying the administration fee of 25 euros.

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