Digital technology can be used to build a better knowledge of the city to help with local decision-making and improve risk and disaster management
Plan for the most vulnerable
The challenge for local authorities is to place digital technology at the service of urban planning that includes the most vulnerable population groups.
Urban planning, rehabilitation of precarious neighbourhoods and risk and disaster management constitute major challenges for local authorities.
In the cities of the South, the official housing supply is not adequate to meet the needs of the population, who settle in informal neighbourhoods, often in high risk areas. This insecure, even dangerous urbanisation is a particular challenge for local authorities and reveals the lack of knowledge and deficiencies of traditional planning tools.
What solutions can digital technology provide as part of the major works of developing and managing the territory from an inclusive and sustainable perspective?
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Clarify expectations about digitalization of urban and spatial planning
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Perform a self-diagnosis of available and usable data for planning and crisis and disaster management
The local authority must start by identifying existing data and the different stakeholders who possess it, and assessing quality and reliability.
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Identify the partners and ecosystem capable of producing urban data
The role of the local authority is to bring together all stakeholders around the urban data for better urban planning and programming of public investments.
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Start with pilot actions to test simple solutions
Focus efforts on one planning issue or vulnerable area for which the data will make the difference.
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Define a roadmap to ensure public responsibility for urban planning data
The local authority must enhance its capacity to produce reliable and systematic urban data for spatial planning.
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Assess, learn and enrich the data for territorial knowledge, and communicate on possible contributions
A continuous evaluation, apprenticeship and communication process should be set up to follow the elaboration of urban database.
