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CASE STUDY

RIO 4.0 – Rionegro Smart City

Client:

Rionegro Mayor’s office

City of Rionegro – Colombia
December 2020

“The smart thing is to focus on a path that empowers us, to have technology at the service of people and that all this gives us an admired place not only in Colombia, but throughout the world.”

Juan Felipe Salazar,
CEO – Dation

Overview

Consultancy to carry out the diagnosis, analysis, design the roadmap, the objective and operational model of Rionegro as a smart city.

Challenge

Design a smart city model according to the vocations and services of Rionegro to promote it as an innovative and sustainable city. Train and empower citizens and government officials.

Internal and external analysis

Internal analysis and technological gaps. Analysis of territory and vocations of the city under the components of government.

Objective and operational model

Design an objective model of smart city services and an operating model for the mayor's office that structures the programs, roles and functions.

Dashboards and knowledge transfer

Build an analytics report on smart city services and conduct knowledge transfer sessions on smart cities.

Solution

Build a smart city model under all verticals of services and programs, applying international standard guidelines, studying the organization and current state of the city of Rionegro as well as promoting a strategy of dissemination and appropriation to citizens.

01

Territorial diagnosis and technological gaps

Technical analysis of the territory (physical, social and economic) and improvement in public management for Smart Cities.

02

Design the roadmap

Design of strategic milestones such as construction of innovation cubes, monitoring and control center, inclusion programs and development of mobile applications.

03

Ambassadors and training

Launch of the Intelligent and Innovative Rionegro ambassador program and training in smart cities, entrepreneurship and analytics.

Design the roadmap
Ambassadors and training

Results

  • Report Analysis of the territory, potentialities and vocations.
  • 5 co-creation workshops with actors from the territory on economy, society, technology and culture.
  • 1,200 surveys to study vocations, potential and design of the ambassador program.
    Gap analysis report of the IT strategic plan and the Government Program.
  • Definition of the Smart and Innovative Rionegro strategic vision, aligned with the Development Plan and public policies.
    Proposal for the science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
  • Design and execution of the digital inclusion and appropriation strategy.
  • Organizational Structure Proposal.
    Roadmap with schedule, project sheets and transition schemes.
  • Business case report with financial viability, investment flow, indicators and structure of costs and expenses.
  • Virtual training courses on Smart Cities, Analytics and Entrepreneurship.

  • Organization and direction of 3 meetings to establish strategic alliances with leaders of smart cities worldwide (Geneva, Amsterdam and Zurich).
  • Conceptual design of the program seal, marketing and positioning plan and development of promotional content.
  • Implementation of a dashboard for loading data and consulting indicators, deviation or non-compliance alerts according to reference values for monitoring.
  • Development of a website for the intelligent and innovative Rionegro program.

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