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the day-to-day management of the city. Name of City: Rio de Janeiro Name of Province/ State: Rio de Janeiro State Name of Country/Region: Brazil Geographical Area: Latin America/ Caribbean region
Traffic emergency response time has been reduced significantly as citizens are alerted about traffic snarl ups and accidents and redirect to the best routes. Data gathered for the center also enables the identification of neighborhoods with
Population: 6,320,446 (2015)
higher dengue fever infection rates. In
Surface Area: 1,224 km2
planning the facility, Rio officials visited
Population Density: 13ďźŒ841 people / km2
alert centers in Madrid, Seoul and New
GDP per capita: USD 14,823
York, and have since forged cooperation
Title or Slogan of the Initiative: Rio de Janeiro
with Johannesburg as it plans a similar
operating center—real smart system integrating data and monitoring instruments
system. This project stands out from 259
Start Date of the Initiative: December, 2010
initiatives vying for the 2nd Guangzhou
End Dateof the Initiative: in the Process
International Award for Urban Innovation,
Thematic Area: Governance/ Management
and was shortlisted as one of the 10
Science and Technology
nominated initiatives for the Award.
Background of the Initiative For a very long time, the Atlantic storms have threatened Rio de Janeiro and departments. This center has become
it has been a very precarious situation,
a global model showing the benefits
and the city has been badly battered by
that can be derived from collaboration,
the storms. Particularly, the low-income
alignment and data sharing across city
communities are severely hit and the
divisions. Since the facility went on-line,
majority of the community is located at
employing some of the latest information
the high slope around the city, and easily
communication technology and weather
encounter destructive landslide. In April,
forecasting systems, there have been
2010, Rio suffered an attack of rainstorm
no deaths caused by landslides. The
(the precipitation exceeds 304 millimeters
model has had many other benefits for
in 24 hours), which cost the life of 68