This meeting will be held on 17 and 18 November in the Joaquín Tomás Villarroya Hemicycle Hall of the Faculty of Law. Around twenty experts in Constitutional Law will participate to share their studies on transparency and good governance policies.
The congress is sponsored by the PAGODA Chair for Open Government, Involvement and Open Data –of the Universitat de València and the Valencian Department of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation of the Valencian Government–, which is organising this event in collaboration with the Faculty of Law and the UV Department of Constitutional Law, Political and Administrative Sciences.
On Monday 17 October, at 9:30 a.m., the opening ceremony will be given by Antoni Llorente Ferreres, Regional Secretary for Participation and Transparency of the Valencian Department of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality; Fabiola Meco Tébar, Vice-Dean of Economics, Planning and Campus of the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de València; Göran Röllnert Liern, Director of the UV Department of Constitutional Law, Political and Administrative Sciences; Joaquín Martín Cubas y Jorge Castellanos Claramunt, Co-Directors of the PAGODA Chair.
Throughout the day there will be four panels, three of them face-to-face and the last one online, which will review the foundations of open democracy, the evolution of good governance and transparency from the regional, national and international perspective.
The first panel, moderated by Ainhoa Lasa (University of the Basque Country), will include the participation of: Enrique Cebrián (University of Zaragoza), who will address ‘The principles of open democracy in the constitutional reform procedure’; Professor María Dolores Montero (University of Córdoba), who will focus her intervention on ‘The evolution of open government: towards the open State’; and Andrés Iván Dueñas (University of Valladolid), who will address the topic ‘Good governance in the Autonomous Communities in times of crisis’.
The second panel will include papers by Enriqueta Expósito (University of Barcelona), under the title ‘The opening of parliament to citizens: transparency, the first link’; Esther Martín (University of Barcelona), who will present her studies on ‘Parliament at the service of citizens: demands of good governance in parliament’; and Javier Sierra (UNED), who will offer ‘Perspectives on public transparency and open government in Spain’. The session will be moderated by Professor María Dolores Montero (University of Córdoba).
Lorenzo Cotino (Universitat de València) will then lead a panel on new technologies applied to transparency. Marco Emilio Sánchez (Catholic University of Colombia) will give a talk on ‘Transparency and explainability of algorithms used by the administration for cybersecurity and cyberdefence’. Professor Wilma Arellano (Complutense University of Madrid) will give a talk on ‘Reconceptualising freedom of thought in the face of artificial intelligence’.
The last panel on 17 Monday October, scheduled at 5:30 p.m., will be held online. Moderated by María Guadalupe (Inter-American Academy of Human Rights), it will include the participation of Gustavo Marcelo Silva (International University of Ecuador), who will share with the audience ‘The function of transparency and social control in the Ecuadorian Constitution’; Jorge Alejandro Melgarejo (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris), who will focus his speech on ‘The "odyssey" towards transparency: the Paraguayan case’; and Víctor S. Peña (Colegio de Sonora de Méjico), who will give a talk on ‘Legislative co-creation and good government: The winding road of the Open Parliament in Mexico’.
On Tuesday 18 October, the session will begin at 11:15 a.m., with the presentation of two books: “Els orígens de la nostra democràcia”, by its author Vicent Giménez (Universitat Politècnica de València); and “Derecho a la privacidad y derecho a la información desde una perspectiva comparada”, by the coordinator of the publication Wilma Arellano (Complutense University of Madrid).
The sixth and final panel, moderated by Professor María Teresa García-Berrio (Complutense University of Madrid), will feature papers by José Luis Sahuquillo (executive director of EQUÀLITAT, participació i igualtat), on ‘Open government from the consultancy perspective: day-to-day successes and failures’; and Noel Armas (University of Seville), who will address ‘On the historical evolution of transparency in local entities’.
- You can consult the full programme.
- Registration: Jorge.castellanos@uv.e
