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Cotino (Director) has been the PI for three consecutive national projects on these issues, one focused on e-government (2005-2008), another on freedom and participation in the social web (2010-2012) and the current one on Open Government (2013-2015), a subject on which continuity is sought. The new R&D&I project of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness is pending resolution. It is entitled “The progress of Open Government. Constitutional legal regime of the implementation of transparency policies, access to information, open data, collaboration and participation, especially through ICTs and e-government” DER2015-65810-P (pending resolution). Cotino is also PI. The results are more than evident, both on the web and in hundreds of publications and papers. Besides some readjustments, this time the internationalisation is boosted by strengthening the foreign team. All the members of the team have worked and cooperated actively in recent years.

 

This UV group also includes two members who are not part of the Ministry’s project, two point researchers in Spain, Fernández Salmerón and Valero Torrijos, from Administrative Law.

The legal treatment of contents and freedoms on the Internet, liability of providers, hate speech, limits, censorship, etc. will continue to be addressed. On the other hand, given the relatively ethereal concept of open government and the predominance of other disciplines, a constitutional legal treatment is needed to legally decant, sediment and distil all these changes and advances that have just taken place in the last few years with respect to the contents of the concept of Open Government (transparency, participation, collaboration, open data, etc.) and its projection in the legal framework as well as the fundamental rights that are involved. Continuity is sought as we are at a crucial moment in the development of the Open Government. We are on the culmination of a process of fundamentalising the right to transparency and access to public information. This process has not been completed neither by the ECHR, nor the CJEU, nor, especially, by our Constitutional Court and Supreme Court. It is going to be especially important to analyse the interpretation by data protection authorities, transparency authorities, ombudsmen with jurisdiction over this area, and, of course, the ordinary and constitutional courts.

 

The aim is to analyse and monitor both the application of the transparency law and new administrative laws and reform of the law on re-use, the decree implementing the law on transparency, 2015, as well as the wave of regional laws in the 2013-2015 period in the autonomous community.

Beyond the mere normative analysis, it is a matter of taking into account the practical implementation and policies of open government policies, especially in Spain at the different town, region and state levels. It is a booming issue in 2015-16 in Spain. However, given the transnational nature of the phenomenon, it will also be monitored from a comparative and supranational European and Latin American perspective.

The aim is not only to analyse the constitutional legal development of open government, but also, as far as possible, to influence it on the different legal operators.
It has a solid experience in the dissemination of high quality legal content in classic formats (more than nine collective works and ten congresses), partly through www.derechotics.com or the Cyberlaw clinic and highly visible Twitter profiles of some of the members. In addition to generating and disseminating academic knowledge, it will be conducted an observatory of e-administration 2.0, an analysis of websites of Spanish and international reference; a document of practical legal recommendations and precautions.

Goals CT

Analysis of the legal regime of freedoms, online government and transparency, and participation through ICTs.

Research lines
Management
  • COTINO HUESO, LORENZO
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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Members
  • ROLLNERT LIERN, GORAN
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
  • Director/a de Departament
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  • SANCHEZ FERRIZ, REMEDIO
  • PDI-Emerit/a Universitat
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Non-UV research staff

Collaborators

  • Rosa Cernada Badía - UCV-Valencia
  • Loreto Corredoira Alfonso - UCM-Madrid
  • Guillermo Escobar Roca - UAH-Madrid
  • Angela Patricia Martínez Rojas - UVEG-Valencia
  • Julian Valero Torrijos - UM-Murcia

Work team

  • Jiménez López, Jesús
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  • COTINO HUESO, LORENZO
    PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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Associated structure
Constitutional Law, Political and Administrative Sciences
Contact group details
Constitutional and Legal Regime of Freedoms, Open Government and the Use of Information Technologies (IT) (clrfoguit)

Tarongers Campus

Edificio Departamental Occidental. Av. dels Tarongers, s/n

46022 València (Valencia)

+34 963 828 938

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www.derechotics.com

lorenzo.cotino@uv.es

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  • COTINO HUESO, LORENZO
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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