A bureaucracy tale

The 15th of November was the date when I went to the Goverment office to ask, officially, for the set of data.

It have registration time: 12:03

Today, Thursday the 18th of November I have called the responsible of the department, to know if the files were already available.

"The form has not yet arrived to my office, following the normal internal process", she said.

Normal means that a paper needs, at least, three days to run ( ! ) from the register office, in the ground level of the building, to an office somewhere in the same building.

Let me take some time to learn about efficiency, high performance and so on

Data ownership, data love, data prevention, data protection

Most of the responsibles to whom I addressed my mails, responded very fast, inviting me to visit their archives, or sending to me pdf's with the information, but one of them informed that the minutes of the offcial meeting were published in the official Journal of the Diputació.

It was following this link that I had to follow the steps of MUNICAT

From there I reached the Servei de Relacions amb les Entitats Locals, wich service manager  told me that they were the owners of the data, and they had historical records, but...

"Do you need all the data ?" she said

Following her request, the 15th of november I had registered an official form asking for the files

Let's wait for some days

to be an investigator

Three days, a long weekend, spent in visiting websites and sending mails to the web administrators, asking for missing information.

Are they going to answer ?

When tomorrow morning they will see my message in their inbox, are they going to react activating the organization in order to send me a quick, well documented answer, or...