Consell Insular de Formentera

What Consell Insular de Formentera does

Consell Insular de Formentera is the statutory Island Council (Consell Insular) governing Formentera, the smallest inhabited island of the Balearic Islands archipelago in Spain. Operating from its headquarters at Plaça de la Constitució, 1 in Sant Francesc, the council exercises competencies delegated by the Govern de les Illes Balears across local public administration, including urban planning, environment, mobility, social services, culture, education, economic promotion, and citizen participation. The institution is governed by an elected President (Alejandra Ferrer Kirschbaum, Gent x Formentera) and a council comprising representatives from multiple political parties including GxF, PSIB-PSOE, Sa Unió de Formentera, Partit Popular, and Compromís amb Formentera. As a public administration, it is funded through general taxation and a small set of unit-priced fees (notably ITV vehicle technical inspection) rather than commercial revenue, and there are no private equity or venture capital structures applicable to this entity.

The council's core product surface consists of a suite of interconnected digital portals serving residents and visitors: the institutional website (consellformentera.com), the Oficina Virtual d'Atenció al Ciutadà (OVAC) for 24/7 electronic administration procedures authenticated via national digital certificates (eDNI, Cl@ve, FNMT-CERES, CATCert, ACCV, IZENPE), the VideoActa portal (provided by Ambiser Innovaciones S.L.) for live streaming and archival of plenary sessions, the Cita Previa ITV online appointment system for vehicle inspections, the Portal de Govern Obert for transparency and budget disclosure, and the Seu Electrònica for official electronic communications. Service delivery combines a single physical Office of Citizen Attention (OAC) in Sant Francesc with these self-serve digital channels, plus WhatsApp and social media for direct engagement. Technology stack is conventional government web infrastructure with no documented AI/ML capability, no public APIs, and no proprietary platform development beyond integration with the VideoActa third-party system.

Name

Consell Insular de Formentera

Legal name

Consell Insular de Formentera

Website

https://conselldeformentera.cat

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Consell Insular de Formentera is the statutory local government of Formentera island in Spain's Balearic Islands, providing administrative services, vehicle inspection, public transport coordination, and digital citizen portals to island residents and visitors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Government Administration Services

NAICS

Public Administration (92), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Communications, Transparency & Open Government (BPAIAAAH)

Keywords

• Island government services
• Vehicle inspection services
• Electronic administration portal
• Public transportation coordination
• Open government transparency

Headquarters

HQ city

Sant Francesc de Formentera

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Consell Insular de Formentera is the local government authority of Formentera island in the Balearic Islands of Spain, providing comprehensive public administration services to residents and visitors. It delivers administrative procedures, identity and population registry services, vehicle technical inspection (ITV), public transport coordination, cultural and sports facility management, environmental protection, social welfare, economic promotion, and digital governance through interconnected portals including the OVAC virtual citizen office and the VideoActa plenary transparency platform.

Product overview

Consell Insular de Formentera operates a unified suite of digital citizen services organized as interconnected online portals. The core offering consists of the main institutional website (Lloc web) as the central access point, supported by the Oficina Virtual d'Atenció al Ciutadà (OVAC) for administrative procedures, the VideoActa Portal for public access to recorded plenary sessions, the Cita Previa ITV for vehicle inspection appointments, the Portal de Gobierno Abierto for transparency and budget information, and the Seu Electrònica for official electronic administrative communications. These services collectively provide end-to-end digital governance capabilities for the island's residents.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Oficina Virtual d'Atenció al Ciutadà (OVAC) Virtual citizen service office providing online administrative procedures, certificate issuance, and administrative management for residents of Formentera, with 24/7 access via digital authentication using eDNI, Cl@ve, FNMT-CERES, CATCert, ACCV, and IZENPE certificates.
• VideoActa Portal Video recording, streaming, and archiving platform for the council's plenary sessions, providing public access to recorded council meetings with speaker identification, timestamped agenda items, and digital signature capabilities to support government transparency.
• Cita Previa ITV Online appointment scheduling system for vehicle technical inspection (ITV) services supporting booking by vehicle type with email verification and calendar export; payments accepted by debit/credit card only.
• Portal de Gobierno Abierto Open government transparency portal providing public access to institutional transparency information, contracts, and budgets for the Consell de Formentera.
• Seu Electrònica Electronic headquarters providing digital administrative procedures and official electronic communications channels for the Consell Insular de Formentera.
• Official institutional website (Lloc web) Official institutional website of the Consell Insular de Formentera providing navigation to all council services, procedures, governance information, press releases, agenda, and announcement board.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• VideoActa (Ambiser Innovaciones S.L.)coreTechnology or IntegrationVideoActa platform provides digital recording, streaming, and archiving services for the council's plenary sessions. The system includes speaker identification, agenda management, and digital signature capabilities. Ambiser Innovaciones S.L. is the technology provider maintaining the VideoActa system for government transparency.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria: Another Canary Island cabildo, structurally equivalent to the Consell Insular de Formentera in role but operating at much larger scale, which provides a reference point for how the Formentera model could evolve at greater population and budget.
• Consell Insular de Mallorca: The island council governing Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands. Operates the same insular-government model under Spanish autonomous-community law, delivering a comparable mix of administrative procedures, transport coordination, cultural services, and digital citizen portals for residents and visitors.
• Cabildo Insular de Tenerife: Canary Islands' island government with the same "cabildo insular" statutory form as the Balearic consells insulares. Delivers overlapping administrative, mobility, and open-government services and is often cited alongside Formentera on small-island transparency rankings.
• Consell Insular d'Eivissa (Ibiza): The island council of Ibiza, the Balearic sister island of Formentera. Runs the same institutional framework with its own plenary sessions, transparency portal, and OVAC-style virtual citizen office, making it the closest structural peer.
• Consell Insular de Menorca: The third Balearic island council, governing Menorca. Shares identical statutory responsibilities and digital service portfolio (administrative procedures, ITV coordination, transport, culture, environment) on a similarly small-island scale.

Broad incumbents

• Generalitat de Catalunya: Another Spanish autonomous-community government that issues digital certificates (CATCert) used by Formentera's OVAC and operates large-scale open-data and transparency portals comparable in ambition to those of the Consell.
• Govern de les Illes Balears: The autonomous-community government that delegates competencies and funds to Consell Insular de Formentera. Operates overlapping e-government and transparency platforms (e.g., the Cl@ve authentication layer) on which the Formentera council depends.

Regional players

• Ajuntament de Barcelona: Municipal government with mature open-government and digital citizen-service platforms (Instamaps, Open Data BCN, IRIS platform). Same statutory role of local Spanish administration but at city scale rather than island-council scale.

Others

• Ambiser Innovaciones S.L. The technology vendor behind Formentera's VideoActa plenary-streaming portal. Listed as a core integration partner and the operator of the transparency tooling that distinguishes the Consell; therefore an adjacent ecosystem participant rather than a competing government.
• Diputación Foral de Bizkaia: Provincial-tier public administration in Spain that delivers its own administrative procedure portal and transparency portal. Comparable to the Consell Insular as a sub-regional government body serving a defined territory, useful for benchmarking digital service delivery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/consell_formen
• Facebookfacebook.com/consellinsular
• Instagraminstagram.com/consell_formentera
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/consell-insular-de-formentera

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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