Jaén, October 11, 2024.- The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, has announced from Jaén the construction of a data space at the municipal level for the management of smart urban infrastructures, "a decisive and innovative step towards the digitization and modernization of our cities that will contribute to improving the public services provided to citizens."
The project will be coordinated by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), which will receive a grant of EUR 13 million to implement the initiative.
Minister Óscar López made this announcement during an institutional visit to Jaén and explained that this is an initiative that will allow local entities to share data related to smart urban infrastructures, the ‘Smart Cities’.
“The objective is that municipalities and provincial councils that wish to do so can exchange the data they generate in their daily activity. So that the data collected in a certain public service serves to improve another. And so that the experiences learned by a city council can be reused by another local entity. In short: it is about promoting a digitization at the service of citizenship and not as it happens on many occasions where citizenship is the one that must adjust to technology,” explained Óscar López.
This innovative proposal includes, initially, three use cases: the first, related to intelligent mobility, seeks to optimize the flow of traffic and congestion by providing cities with less pollution, more sustainable and efficient. The second aims to improve efficiency and sustainability in the management of critical resources, contributing to reduce the energy bill of the city and, the third case focuses on the economic and social activity of cities, looking for more cohesive and better planned locations.
THE DIGITAL TRANSITION REACHES THE WHOLE TERRITORY
Previously Óscar López visited the town hall of Martos, where Red.es collaborates with the Consistory in a project to install smart pedestrian crossings, weather stations for air quality or a smart irrigation system that will be integrated with its Smart City Platform. The project has a budget of EUR 1 million.
The minister stressed that “thanks to the European funds” that the President of the Government “fought in Brussels”, today Spain is “at the forefront of the ecological and digital transition throughout the territory, and not only in Madrid”.
Andalusia has received about 1 billion for digitization, infrastructure improvement and connectivity programs and modernization of the administration to provide a better service to the citizen. These funds come from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) and are managed by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service