The City Council of Valencia has launched Connecta VLCi project which aims to consolidate Valencia as a Smart City. The objective of the project is to provide 194 municipal buildings with the artificial intelligence needed to improve the public services they offer. Its implementation is possible thanks to 50% co-funding by the Ministry of Economy and Business.
Intelligent services for satisfied customers and sustainable governance
Connecta VLCi previews the installation of internal and external environmental sensors in sports buildings, museums and monuments, markets and municipal schools. They will allow control of atmospheric and light pollution, temperature and humidity, and the consumption of energy and water, which shall ultimately lead to important financial savings. In addition, the installation of sensors will make it possible to start an environmental awareness platform in a hundred schools and a platform for people who sell in the municipal markets to offer their products online.
Read more: ES: New initiative to consolidate Valencia as a smart city
The Spanish Open Data Portal published its source code for reuse under the umbrella of the Open Source Forge of CENATIC, the National Center for Open Source based Technologies (Centro Nacional de Referencia de Aplicación de las TIC basadas en fuentes abiertas, in Spanish). Moreover, a project has been created containing the additional software developed for the datos.gob.es portal, based on open source software as Drupal. The publication of this source code allows any citizen, organisation or company to use it and create their own space dedicated to open data.
Read more: ES: Source code of datos.gob.es available to the public for reuse
The meeting was chaired by the Ministry of Finances and Public Administration, thus giving the project and the above announcement an unprecedented political backing.
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An English case study on EPSA's use of open source software will be published soon by Red Hat. The Spanish text appeared already online at Muy Computer Pro, a Spanish IT news site, on 16 January.
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Their study shows that patients' "e-loyalty" is linked to acceptance of novel technology via satisfaction, indicating that a positive attitude toward online services leads to user satisfaction and use.
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