“A New Civitavecchia, a Smart city where it is easy to get around because traffic is limited because a good availability of innovative and sustainable public transport is guaranteed, promoting the use of low ecological impact vehicles and favoring access to the historic center by favoring its traffic.
For the digital transition, the project of a Smart city is also needed: the smart city is one that manages to reconcile the needs of citizens, businesses and institutions, thanks to the widespread and innovative use of communication technologies with a great impact on mobility, as mentioned, but also on the more efficient collective use of energy resources (for example on public lighting), on security and video surveillance, even on the waste cycle, from their separate collection to their economic valorisation and the drastic reduction of greenhouse gases.
It is at this point that the chapter of Artificial Intelligence opens which is no longer a frontier, but a reality. Personally I prefer to underline how all the themes that make up the Smart city project, from the use of public transport to video cameras, from waste to energy efficiency require a prerequisite: the participation of citizens.
Without it, investing in the Smart city would not only be wrong but completely useless.
In short, the smart city project, because this is what Smart means, is a real evolutionary path accompanied by the digital transition and success does not derive from the more or less advanced or more or less extensive use of the “coolest of the moment” technologies, but by the degree of adhesion of people, precisely by collective intelligence. Because cameras, integrated circuits, algorithms and fractals all have one point in common: they are tied to a plug… and each of us can always unplug it. And smart or not smart, this should remain.” This was declared by Jenny Crisostomi, United for Civitavecchia – With Poletti Mayor.
