Mexico City is the second smartest in AL

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Mexico City is the second smartest in Latin America, after Santiago de Chile, for improving the lives of its inhabitants through improvements to the efficiency of its operations in sectors such as the economy, mobility, politics and the environment. environment, according to a recent study.

The above is because the Mexican capital has been a pioneer in several areas associated with smart cities, according to a report by the American magazine Fast Company, which has already carried out similar measurements in North America and the Asia Pacific region.

The report mentions that Mexico City “has emerged as a leader in digital governance in Latin America,” according to data from research on digital governance at Rutgers University and other open data initiatives.

In the construction sector, the city has promoted “green and Europe Cell Phone Number List smart buildings,” according to Fast Company. “In fact, it is one of the first cities in the world to experiment with technology that allows buildings to actually absorb surrounding smog,” he noted.

Another indicator came in the transportation sector, where the report praised the introduction of the Ecobici bike-sharing program, which currently has 4,000 bikes and has plans to expand to 6,000.



Fast Company also mentioned the introduction of “the region's first scalable car-sharing program,” Carrot, which currently contains more than 40 vehicles, including some electric.

Meanwhile, Santiago de Chile ranked first on the list of smart cities for having “less corruption than any government in Latin America” and a stable economy, which makes it attractive to investors. The Chilean capital was considered for its “entrepreneurial environment” that allows the participation of social and academic organizations in the challenge of making a smart city.

The rest of the list is made up of Bogotá (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Río de Janeiro (Brazil), Curitiba (Brazil), Medellín (Colombia) and Montevideo (Uruguay), in that order.

The list of smart cities considers factors such as urban planning, access to information, security, cultural life, efficient mobility, social inclusion and connectivity with the world, and its methodology takes elements from the Regional Science Center of the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and Siemens' work on cities, among others.

Most cities can agree that there is real value in having an economy, environmental practices, governments, life, mobility and smart people,” the study's creator, environmentalist Boyd Cohen, indicated in the methodology.