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Four new municipalities incorporate to the Spanish Network of Intelligent Cities

09/11/2012

9 November 2012

The Managerial Board of the Spanish Network of Intelligent Cities (RECI) has approved, in his celebrated ordinary meeting in the frame of the Living room Greencities & Sustainability of Málaga, the incorporation of four new municipalities, with which from now will be 29 those that form part of this Network. It treats of Alcobendas (Madrid), Elche (Alicante), Gijón (Asturias) and Marbella (Málaga).

As it has explained Íñigo of the Serna, president of RECI, “these four municipalities fulfil the two essential requirements to integrate in our Network: have of a strategic plan with destined specific performances to promote the innovation and the use of the new technologies to build intelligent cities, and be had to put his resources and his experiences in this matter to disposal of the rest of the members of RECI”.

In the meeting has approved besides the signature of an agreement of collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), also chaired by Of the Serna, that will allow him incorporate to the Managerial Board and to the groups of work of RECI with the end to take advantage of the synergies and the efforts oriented to reach an intelligent gestión of the cities.

On the other hand, the Managerial Board has given green light to the clear-cut strategic lines in the meeting of the III Technical Committee, celebrated the past month of October in Boroughs:

In the area of social innovation, decides the next manufacturing of an Ordenanza type of Open Government, in the field of the transparency, the access and the reuse of the information, and the transfer of experiences and solutions that already are working, like the system of sensado participatory of Santander or the platform Open Irekia of the Basque Government.
In matter of power, agrees put in common different documents of administrative character, like pliegos and ordenanzas to regulate the supply, the lighted up or the energetic efficiency, that will serve like model to those cities that wish to implant a model of sustainable city. Likewise, it will elaborate and it will fill an index card on the model of gestión of each city of the Network to be able to evaluate his results and put them in common.
Regarding environingingment, infrastructures and habitabilidad human, stipulate like lines of preferential action the efficient gestión of the cycle of the water, the gestión of waste, the gestión of green zones and the indicators of efficiency and urban quality. Like experiences of success in this field that could be exportables to other cities stand out the llevar in Vitoria-gasteiz in matter of gestión of water and green zones or in Valency with his project CAT-MED of indicators for the urban efficiency.
In the area of urban mobility approves promote the interoperability of the points of recarga of the electrical vehicle of public use, adopting common actions in the cities that at present have of them, with the end last to be able to establish a common protocol to all the cities members of RECI. Likewise, they contribute experiences of success in the implantation of intelligent systems of transport and of plans of sustainable urban mobility.
Finally, in matter of government, economy and businesses agrees look after the fulfillment of the electronic rights of the citizens, for what propose like electronic headquarters Pamplona and Valencia, with the end to create an Ordenanza of Electronic Administration, services of certification and autenticación and a future catalogue of administrative procedures. Also it decides use technological solutions of easy application that contribute value added to the citizen, like the solution of Reality Increased of Valencia, the application of electronic auction of Santander or the technology NFC of Madrid.