Alcantarilla is one of the first municipalities in the Region of Murcia that will offer its citizens a mobile application to be informed of all the news of the city where they live as well as offer the possibility of interacting with municipal services.
Today, the innovative APP "Alcantarilla SmartCity", with the counselor of Citizen Participation and Transparency, Noelia Arroyo, the mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía and the general director of Hidrogea, Javier Ybarra, was presented at the Center for Citizen Participation. .
All those who download the APP 'Alcantarilla SmartCity' on their mobile phones, whether Android or IPhone, may have updated information on time, water consumption, leisure, cultural events and sports that are offered in the city.
In addition, with this application, the City Council intends to be more accessible and transparent, as well as foster the relationship with its citizens in an agile and comfortable way.
Through this platform users can communicate to their City Council any damage they find in the city, request or suggest the actions they consider necessary and request information on different issues.
In the same way, they will be able to receive real-time notifications in their mobile phones regarding possible incidents, wind / rain alerts, cultural events, sports events or any other information that may be of interest to them.
For its part, the City will request the opinion of the sewers through different surveys to improve the municipality making citizens protagonists in decision-making.
Hidrogea, a company that provides distribution and sanitation services in Alcantarilla, has gone a step further by putting at the service of citizens an innovative and modern application with which it aims to facilitate day to day life in the city.
For this, it has collaborated with the Sewer City Council to offer this municipality the first implementation of this Smart product.
This version is the first step that the Town Hall of Sewer, faithful to its idea of ​​modernizing the administration and the relationship with its neighbors, gives to get the information to the citizens in a modern, fast and comfortable way.
This application will continue to evolve in future versions to increase its performance in a bid for continuous improvement and new technologies.
This App is prepared to collect more utilities as demanded by the sewers.
For the counselor of Citizen Participation and Transparency, Regional Government, Noelia Arroyo, "Sewer has since today with a good tool for participation and information, intuitive, readable and with a good usability.From the Autonomous Community we take note of this good example of transparency and participation, this being the first city council that launches it and from here, surely others will do it, because it is very useful, with courage in transparency, since this tool that citizens now have can We can not be afraid that citizens will participate more and more in the decisions made by their political representatives.It is important the path started by the Sewer City Council, citizens need reasons like this to regain confidence in the rulers and in public institutions and that there is no such disaffection. "
Counselor Noelia Arroyo, also wanted to "recognize the work of Hidrogea, water is a very sensitive issue in our region and that can be put these research support channels, as it does in other regional projects, especially when we we found in a Region, with big water problems ".
The App is now available for both mobile phone versions and according to Joaquín Buendía, mayor of Alcantarilla, "this is another step in our attempt to be a modern municipality, which is in contact with its citizens. comfortable service and adapted to our social uses, in which the mobile is part of our day to day, and use this platform to give visibility.
For his part, Javier Ybarra, CEO of Hidrogea, said that "every day we use all the technology and innovation to perform the water supply in Sewer, so we thought to go one step further and put all that knowledge at the service of the It is important to listen and know what the people we serve think about and this tool will be a way to make citizens protagonists of what happens in their cities. "
The Town Hall of Alcantarilla will continue working on its modernization, in the promotion of citizen participation and in its desire to maintain a relationship as close as possible to its neighbors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla