This is the second consignment of subsidised material endowed with 560,000 euros of Next Generation funds, consisting of 400 tablets, 130 wifi access points and 1,860 security devices.
The Department of Economic Promotion and Local Development of the Consell de Mallorca has delivered this morning a new consignment of equipment and computer services to the 46 municipalities of the island with less than 20,000 inhabitants, in its commitment to continue improving the digitization and modernization of local authorities.
The material distributed consists of 400 tablets, 130 wifi access points and 1,860 physical tokens (devices for the implementation of the double authentication factor) and is part of the Strategic Cybersecurity Plan, promoted by the island’s Municipal Support and Coordination Department.
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The Consell de Mallorca delivers computer equipment to town councils in its bid to improve municipal digitalisation
The new call for in-kind subsidies for ICT equipment is worth approximately 560,000,000 euros, financed with Next Generation funds, as part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. This material is in addition to that already delivered to the municipal entities last June, consisting of 230 laptops and other materials, for a total amount of 1,828,804 euros.
The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, presided over the presentation ceremony, accompanied by the councillor for Economic Promotion and Local Development, Pilar Amate. Also in attendance was the island’s director of Municipal Support and Coordination, Beatriz Camiña, who is in charge of managing all of this aid, as well as mayors and councillors from the beneficiary municipalities.
President Galmés expressed his satisfaction with ‘the efficiency being shown by the island’s Municipal IT Service, which is driving the transition towards municipal digitalisation and providing all the island’s town councils with more secure ICT-related services’.
‘In an increasingly digitalised environment, we cannot be left behind, so we must equip our municipal services, as this will undoubtedly result in a better service to citizens. It is a question of satisfying the demands of the residents in a more efficient way’, said the island president.
Technical support tasks for local councils
For her part, the councillor for Economic Promotion explained that ‘we are aware that we have to work along these lines, to leave the best possible margin for cybercriminals, and with this material, together with the training we provide for local council staff, we are making progress in computer security and in the efficiency of the service that citizens receive from our closest administration, which are the local councils’.
‘We have already carried out various actions in the area of cybersecurity and we have other actions planned, because security is not a one-off aspect and we have to keep it up to date all the time’, added Amate in this regard.
He also pointed out that, once the material has been delivered, the Municipal IT Service ‘will carry out training, configuration and technical support tasks for the ICT elements delivered so that they can be used optimally’.
Previously, and taking advantage of the presence of the mayors, the meeting of the ICT Advisory Council (CATIC) was held at the Federation of Local Entities of the Balearic Islands (FELIB), a meeting in which the planning of the municipal management of the Municipal IT Service of the Island Council for this year was detailed.