The dematerialization of all municipalities, making access to public services more digital, an event management platform, at the level of the entire region, or an application that will make future cultural events known. These are some of the initiatives of the “AlgarveMais Digital” project, which was approved on 22 February at a meeting of the Algarve's Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR), and wants to be closed within a year.
Added to these is a project, linked to the reengineering of processes, with the aim of starting their harmonization at a regional level, that is, making them equal in the 16 municipalities.
In statements to the Sul Informação, Miguel Freitas, first secretary of AMAL – Algarve Intermunicipal Community, explained that the main objective of the “AlgarveMais Digital” project, which has a budget of 2,2 million euros, is «to make the municipal government more accessible to citizens».
With regard to the event management application, for example, the formula will be “open”, because each person will be able to “enter the database and give information about what will happen, without intermediaries”, he explained.
As for incident management, the goal is to create in all 16 municipalities something similar to what is already implemented in Vale do Lobo, with a Infralobe Smart Management, in order to be able to coordinate all the information at a regional level, whenever users report unusual occurrences.
For now, and given that the project's approval is recent, none of these four initiatives is “truly advanced”. «We are implementing the “AlgarveMais Digital”, making several contacts», revealed Miguel Freitas to our newspaper.
But what is «almost out» is an application, related to the VAMUS sustainable mobility project, and that it will be “a tool for planning and managing information to users”.
Uncovering the veil a little about what this platform will have, Miguel Freitas advanced to the Sul Informação which “will provide information about the timetables of all public transport routes” and also ask users whether, for example, “the bus was comfortable or if it kept to the timetable”.
The objective is, therefore, "to gather information and then make a definitive contract with the operators", he added.
According to Miguel Freitas, the area of digitization is an issue in which the Algarve “must run fast”, not least because AMAL has already known “other initiatives” of the kind outside the region.
With this project, he assured, this gap will be patched and the delay will be «recovered quickly». And there is even an idea for another future project, after these are implemented. «We want to move to another one. It will be a very tourism-oriented second stage», he concluded.
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