TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
AIS Newsletter November & December 2020
AIS proposes to the Government the establishment of an Electronic Register for the Magistrates, AKSHI sets up working group for its implementation Anti-Corruption Day - Open Data Albania is awarded the Prize for Civil Society Action November - December and Covid-19 situation, Albania enters a critical phase, death toll increases
AIS proposes to the Government the establishment of an Electronic Register for the Magistrates, AKSHI sets up working group for its implementation
A Register of the Magistrates, with data, documents and information for Albanian judges and prosecutors is required by the law since 2016, the year when the legal package for the justice reform was adopted. This register enables the careful archiving of the documents and information related to the integrity, performance and image of judges and prosecutors. AIS has found that none of the institutions, the High Prosecutorial Council and the High Judicial Council has made any efforts to create the register in an electronic form. Therefore, the Government was officially requested to commit to this database of great importance for the public confidence and the integrity of the Reformed Justice System. The National Agency for Information Society has established a working group and is expected to start the process. The intervention consists of four steps: drafting of the missing by laws; software infrastructure; hardware infrastructure, and increasing the capacities of the implementation staff. AIS has created the web-database Access to Justice Info as a pilot model to be considered by the institutions.
Anti-Corruption Day, Open Data Albania is awarded the Civil Society Action Prize
The Integrity Week and the World Anti-Corruption Day were finalised by several prizes awarded to important and active stakeholders in the country. Our organization, known as the promoter of Open Data Albania was given the Civil Society Action Award. The award was given with the motivation "For its contribution to strengthening accountability and improving policymaking. Also, for its contribution in promoting transparency, accountability, and civic participation through the use of innovation and information technology. The Integrity Week is an initiative of ICC Albania with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; EU Delegation of Tirana; Ministry of Justice, and the media partner A2CNN. 15 important stakeholders were nominated for this evaluation.
November - December and Covid-19 situation, Albania enters a critical phase, death toll increases
Albania has marked an increasing number of deaths due to Covid–19 in the recent weeks. The data processed through Open Data Albania charts shows an exponential increase of deaths compared to March-October. In November, Albania recorded 301 deaths of patients in hospitals diagnosed with Covid-19. In December, there is an average of 15 deaths per day. By 31 December 2020, only 8.89% of the total population have been tested, and about 2% of the population has resulted infected from March to December. The data refers to reports published by the state authorities, which do not include persons dying during treatment in foreign hospitals, people who die sick, as they are initially diagnosed with Covid-19, but further verified as negative while tested, or others who die due to the long-term consequences of the disease. On November 30th, there are 18523 infected persons, or 49% of the total infections from the beginning of the pandemic in March. The data are updated on the website Open.Data.Al/Covid-19/.
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