Description Viu Constantí

Constantine lives is an application for Android smartphones native technology aimed at the public, with the aim of giving a direct communication channel with the local products through easy, simple and free to be able to report possible incidents city.
This application, for its characteristics, linked with current trends in government open public participation, transparency and municipal.
Open Government is a model change in government, a new way of governing and working from the municipal organization. Opting for a city government open, more transparent and accessible, which recognizes the wisdom of society and is able to connect the capacities of organizations and citizens.
It is a model where the administration reportedly opened his knowledge, listening to the public, there conversation and search their collaboration, encouraging greater use of new technologies. Open Government is based on three principles: transparency, participation and collaboration.
Currently cities not only depend on the provision of physical infrastructure ( "physical capital") but also, and increasingly, their availability and quality of communication of knowledge and social infrastructure ( "capital intellectual and social ") that are. This last form of capital is decisive for urban competitiveness. It is in this context that the concept of "smart city" (or digital intelligent city) has been introduced as a strategic element to include the factors of production in a modern urban common framework and to highlight the growing importance of Technologies of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) capital and the environment, the profile of the competitiveness of cities.
It is in this sense that many cities (often small and medium) Summit is this trend of wanting to be a "smart city."

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