Smart cities approach for Colombian Context. Learning from ITS experiences and linking with government organization

Abstract

The forecast (world bank) related to the growth of world population tends to be around 9000 million to 2050 and most of the people will live in the cities or in conurbations, this means that, a new approach for support the development of the cities needs to be analyzed. Currently, the mankind has developed and produce a lot of technology advances and many of them are related to the Information and communications technology (ICT). In this way, ICT has become in a key element for the development of the cities, even, introduce the ICT concept in the context of the cities has provoked a new scope for the cities that is called Smart City or Digital City. In this paper, it is presented an approach for Colombian Smart Cities where have been taking in to account several experiences of deployments of solutions in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) taking these, like a core for several solutions for the inhabitants, in addition, government organization is presented like a key element for deploy solutions in the context of Colombian Cities where the ICT solutions can be applied.