Innovation and digital, Prato and Florence ally – Il Tirreno

 PRATO. Gone are the days when you looked only in their own backyard. E ‘with the weapon of technological innovation that Prato and Florence declares war on parochialism and easily reduced. How? We start from the memorandum of understanding signed Friday, July 31 the commissioner Digital Agenda of the town of Prato, Benedetta Squittieri , and his colleague the capital lilies Lorenzo Perra . The topics are those related to smart cities and the Digital Agenda, with a first step of the project scheduled for September, aided by the flow of commuting that connects Prato and Florence, the Florentine government decided to import the system is used for the T- bill payment, a tool has already been tested for years in tobacco Prato that from next September will start operating in supermarkets Florentines involved in the project.

 

 In this way, a citizen of Prato must pay a bill that has the ability to pay in a few minutes even in Florence where maybe he goes to work every day, avoiding unnecessary queues at the postal offices. If so Prato gives lessons of technological innovation in Florence, it is not far behind. The City Council is planning to import the wool system Florentine network wi-fi totally open. Must first solve the gap due to the presence of two authentication systems, one of the City and one of the province launched in 2012.

 

 “In Budget 2014 – explains Squittieri – we have allocated resources to the implementation of new network points wi-fi, except the hospital. The aim rather is to unify the two networks for which we count by 31 December go to the race considering whether to eliminate the password or use the wi-fi network for providing citizens, maybe even to tourists and citizens, services and information to move in Prato “.

 

 Also in the car sharing, video surveillance and digital school are provided spaces for future cooperation. “The concept – said the commissioner to technological innovation of the City of Florence, Lorenzo Perra – is to simplify the life of citizens thinking,

why not, with a metropolitan area that in fact, even if non-institutionalized, already exists between Prato and Florence. In the case of T-serving we wanted to learn from Prato where the system worked well for some time and in order to share best practices of Commons “.