City of Darwin has taken a major step toward enhanced transparency and accountability.
City of Darwin Chief Executive Officer, Scott Waters, said an effective contemporary council needed to provide the community every opportunity to scrutinise how their money was being spent.
Mr Waters said Council was making that level of transparency and accountability possible through its easy-to-use platform, YourDARWIN.
“The level of transparency and accountability available through YourDARWIN is a crucial hallmark in modern local government,” Mr Waters said.
“YourDARWIN is a direct ‘open and transparent’ window into City of Darwin operations.
” Powered by the world-leading OpenGov platform, City of Darwin is now one the most transparent councils in Australia.
“I see this as a really important step in the developing maturity of City of Darwin as a local government council.
“The platform can transform raw data into a range of more intuitive forms including charts, graphs and maps to assist people to accessing information on council spending and activities.”
Mr Waters said providing the community direct access to spending data was part of the council's vision to support strong community trust within Darwin.
YourDARWIN is a key platform for the City of Darwin to deliver on its promise to be an open and transparent organisation, he said.
Quotes from Lord Mayor, Kon Vatskalis
“The journey of innovation towards YourDARWIN started with Smart Darwin. We intended to keep moving forward to be the very best local government in Australia. Over the coming months, the council will continue to enhance the available data.”
“City of Darwin’s long-term vision is about a collaborative budget process with the community; progressive local governments are adopting such a process worldwide. Our partnership with OpenGov will enhance our effectives and accountability as a council.
“All published data is about the council operations; at no point will any personally identifiable data be used without going through the robust privacy principles.”