Benidorm exposes its Urban Resilience project in the V Congress Smart Cities

Benidorm has presented today in the V Smart Cities Congress its Urban Resilience project, promoted and developed by the City Council and Dinapsis Operation & Lab center. The General Administration technician of the Citizen Security, Emergencies and Mobility Areas of the City of Benidorm, Manuel López Ocaña, was in charge of explaining the project in one of the oral presentations of the congress, organized by the Secretary of State for Digital Advancement and the Tecmared Group.

A congress that has also been attended by the person in charge of Dinapsis, Jorge Ballesta, and who is the professional reference forum in matters of Smart Cities at a national level. Red.es and other organizations and organizations such as the Smart Tourist Destinations Network (DTI Network), the Spanish Smart Cities Network (RECI), the Urban Initiatives Network (RIU) or Innpulso Network of Cities of Science and Innovation; organizations all of which Benidorm is part of.

In the course of the presentation, the municipal technician has exposed the work that in the last year and a half has been done to identify what would be the vulnerabilities and possible consequences that would have on the functioning of the city a situation of crisis or emergency, for later To advance in the design of the measures that allow to anticipate those incidents, to avoid that they occur or at least reduce their impact so that they do not affect the basic services.

The objective of the Urban Resilience project is to prevent and resolve more quickly and effectively any incident that affects the normal functioning of the city. This project is supervised by Dinapsis and has involved the City Council and all municipal concessionaires. From the diagnosis drawn up in this project, the City Council has improved and updated the Territorial Emergency Plan, approved at the end of March in the Civil Protection Commission of the Valencian Community. Furthermore, at a more advanced stage, Dinapsis will be converted into a real-time management center, in which all the actors involved in a crisis, whatever their size, are connected.

Governance has made it possible to identify the possible impacts that an emergency situation could have on traffic, electricity, security, beaches, etc. From that phase of Diagnosis, action plans will be outlined that will mark all the agents involved how each of them must act in those situations; and improvement proposals will also be drawn up to prevent these impacts.