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José Ballesta outlines the strategic lines of the project Murcia Smart City forum 'Future Cities in Latin America and Spain', held at the International University Menéndez Pelayo of Santander, organized by "Future in Spanish," one of the business forums most important, led by regional heads of Vocento.
Murcia held an exchange of experiences with the cities of Buenos Aires, Campo Grande, Guadalajara and Montevideo.
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, spoke today in Santander at the conference 'Cities of the Future in Latin America and Spain', organized by 'Future in Spanish' at the International University Menéndez Pelayo, in which he explained the strategic lines of Murcia project Smart City, which has just been selected element by the European Commission as an international benchmark.
Specifically, the Mayor participated in the dialogue 'Creating successful and healthy cities for all', with the mayor of Santander, Inigo de la Serna, Deputy Mayor of Quito, Daniela Chacon, the former mayor of Medellin, Anibal Gaviria, and moderated the founder and president of Cities 8.80, Guillermo Peñalosa.
"Future in Spanish" is one of the most important empresariaes forums on business opportunities in the Spanish-speaking world, led by the regional newspapers of Vocento and other media leaders in Latin America.
On this international day, José Ballesta showed that "our model 'smart' has been selected by the European Commission as a reference and we will share it with capitals of Latin America, within the Transfer Network Sustainable Urban Knowledge (URBELAC) performing an exchange of experiences with the cities of Buenos Aires, Campo Grande, Guadalajara and Montevideo ".
In this regard, said that "the ultimate purpose of a Smart City is to achieve an efficient management in every area of ​​the city (urban planning, transport, services, education, health, security, energy, etc.), while meeting the needs of the city and its citizens, and in Murcia we have a solid project to achieve this goal. "
The strategic lines of intelligent urban development project MiMurcia have been organized into four areas:
CITY COMUNICA.
Its aim is to create a communication channel with citizens to provide flexible, customizable and geographic information service publish / subscribe different cultural or recreational activities and a channel alerts to citizens.
CITY COUNCIL DECIDES.
a single Web site to perform most administrative procedures using eGovernment services will be created.
HALL OPEN.
It aims to promote citizens' initiatives, transparency and participation, and the availability of open data sets.
Under this initiative has developed the prototype TuMurcia participation platform with a focus on mobile devices, which allows you to send ideas about the city, warning of incidents, completing inquiries or access chat citizen service.
SUSTAINABLE CITY COUNCIL.
The main objective is to promote the optimal use of city facilities making them energy efficient, with an intelligent lighting system, an efficient method of waste collection and management of city traffic efficiently.
"It is a time of change is a change of era"
During his presentation, José Ballesta said that "we are not living only a time of change, but a change of era, in which cities are the new engines of the global economy.
economic competitiveness, cohesion: There is no 'cities with project "and" cities without project' and only a solid growth strategy, leadership and participation of different actors of the city, an intelligent balance between the components of urban trilogy will be reached social and environmental sustainability. "
the mayor also stressed that "technology can not only make more efficient and more sustainable city, but also more egalitarian," adding that "promote the Smart City can not be to move only in technology, instrumental or functional, but you must put people at the center of urban and social development. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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