Soft city, last call, “Now is the time of the facts” – on the morning of Padua

PADUA. The challenge is not unprecedented. “Make a careful city of Padua to the needs of the citizens and able to attract talent and businesses.” The novelty, however, lies in the urgency of trying to play a game that at most five years from now will already have winners and losers. “I have five years of time” spariglia cards Zilio Fernando. “In two years ending my term as president of the Chamber of Commerce and on this game Soft city but more generally on the relaunch of Padua as a hub of innovation and logistics platform it is time to move from words to deeds.”

So, in the presence of the address on the smart city document developed by Padua Confindustria Innovative and Technological Services (GIS) and the Association of Padua Soft city, Zilio announces: “Between September and October next we should cash in the first advance payments related to the sale of the participation of the Chamber of commerce in Techno Holding. We have the projects, now we have to do. The Chamber intends to bet 10 million euro on the concretization of Soft city. “

On what to do, putting together the needs of the companies included in the area between the station and Padua One of the recent projects and competition ideas on Soft city, a list of priorities already exists: broadband, broadcast wi-fi, IBeacon sensors that talk to each other and big data for the electronic information network (air quality, weather, urban transport) and a ” dashboard “of real-time information for the city government decisions; a meter “light” between the central station, Stanga area, Zip and future SFMR station, for which it calls a feasibility study; and district heating and energy-saving green building; parking plan, meeting spaces for business activities, social inclusion and safety. The list, as mentioned, is part of the guideline document that Confindustria and Soft city have virtually handed to the Chamber of Commerce and the City. “On Soft city it is time to accelerate, move from intentions of enforceability immediately cantierabili projects,” stressed Roger plate, president of Confindustria Padova Sit. “We need an integrated view, an operating direction between public and private.” “Padua has to go back to being able to attract large companies, the last has settled here 15 years ago,” echoed John Potti, president of Padua

Soft city. “Padua is already smart and must become more and more” agreed the deputy mayor Eleonora Mosco. “The administration is doing its part and is ready to consider and evaluate the priorities identified in the master plan.” The challenge is on.

Matthew Marian