Smart Cities: The great development slope in Latin America

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

Although efforts have been redoubled to speed up the use of technology in various Latin American countries, there are still nations that refuse to update themselves.

Different specialists have defined Smart Cities as those that are committed to improving the quality of life of their inhabitants through technology, innovation and the participation of all agents of change, not only digital. In this regard, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) declared the cities of Maderas, Querétaro, as smart zones of Mexico; Ciudad Creativa and Tequila, in Jalisco; and Smart, in Puebla.

"In Latin America and specifically in Mexico, they have to come to solve the basic problems that our cities have that are commonly of social problems (lack of inclusion). If we talk about the Far East or Europe, they are not the same problems to solve. Latin American cities, have the same type of problems and are in the interest of finding their own model, we are in that process," said Manuel Redondo, President of Fira Barcelona-Mexico, an organization that holds the most important conferences in the field in Latin America.

Although in Mexico there are currently government programs to bring intelligence to a locality, it is not necessary to wait for the best connectivity on your data road, since there must also be a concern to share smart projects, such as those related to with the care of the water and inclusion of the citizenship to certain services in collaboration with the academy, government and population.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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