INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
International Climate Development Institute is a non-profit organization that focuses on climate change, human rights, intergenerational justice, and developing rights, and actively participates in international activities. Inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ICDI actively implement the SDG13 “Climate Action”. The core belief of the organization is the concern for climate change and the right to human development; that is, when we talk about the adjustment and transformation that human beings need in the face of climate change, developing rights are important as well. With professional knowledge in climate governance, the organization provides assistance of capacity building, energy transformation, and development of adaptation strategies to disadvantaged groups to help them move towards a sustainable life with climate resilience.
Smart City platform - Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Spain
Solution Description
In 2012, the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona faced an increasing demand for services, which wasn’t backed up by an adequate IT system. In this context, the challenges the AMB faced were the origin of the Smart City Platform.
The Smart City Platform is an integrated informatics interface used to manage cleaning and maintenance tasks, public works and activities related to the management of parks, beaches, rivers, waste management and public transport. Through the employment of online applications, the Smart City Platform brings together technicians, public administrators and citizens, aiming to share real time information efficiently and to expand the scope of collaboration of city councils, companies and citizens.
The technological platform is being developed in tandem a Smart City Metropolitan Model. It is built with common components (integration, analysis, monitoring, sensors, actuators, asset management, and connections with city councils and citizens) and by specialized operational components (technological sensor systems, operational systems, municipal systems, nucleus system, relational systems, metropolitan intelligence systems).
Since its formal constitution as an official public administration organism in 2011, the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) has persevered in the offering of quality services to its citizens, in correspondence with its aforementioned competencies.