The executive director of the Dominican Telecom Institute, Katrina Naut, suggested turning Santo Domingo into a Smart City through the government initiative Digital Republic. She spoke during the first international workshop on “Urban Mobility: Technological Solutions to Traffic in the City of Santo Domingo” that took place at the auditorium of the Telecommunications Cultural Center (CCT) in the Colonial City on Thursday, 29 June 2017.
The event was organized by Indotel, the CCT, and the Fundacion Erwin Walter Palm with the participation of experts Kyoungwan Lee and Jinyung Kim, who shared the experience of South Korea in city traffic solutions.
During the event, city government expert Luis José Polanco said the Smart City system could triple the collections from traffic fines to RD$1.5 billion a year, money that he said could be put to use to solve traffic issues in the city. He explained that at present, 90% of the fines issued by Metropolitan Transit Authority agents are not paid. In the first five months of the year, AMET agents issued RD$166 million in fines, but of this only 10% has been paid.
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El Dinero
Diario Libre
3 July 2017
