Brazil

The Integrated Centre for Intelligence, Command and Control (CIICC) was created by the State of Goias government to improve the quality of the service provided to the citizens. It aims to reduce crime rates with both preventive and quick response actions.

CIICC includes a call centre for emergencies, video surveillance, monitoring of prisoners through electronic anklets, intelligence service, and statistical data production.

In 2009, the first Operations Control Center (CCO) for Goiania Metropolitan Area’s public transportation network (RMTC) was implemented. The CCO was part of the obligations assumed by the concessionaires of the service. The CCO has three pillars: advanced technologies, innovative operating procedures, and qualified people.

Goiania, the capital of the State of Goias, is the sixth-largest city in Brazil by area and the tenth most populous municipality, with a population of approximately 1.5 million (Census 2018). Located in the central part of the state and the country, it is the 13th most populous metropolitan region in Brazil, with over 2.5 million inhabitants. It was planned and built to be the political and administrative capital of the State of Goias.

Datapoa is the open data platform of Porto Alegre where citizens can build on the available data to develop smart solutions for the city, actively participating in the urban development and improvement of their communities.

The city of Rio de Janeiro is regularly hit by natural disasters caused by bad weather conditions such as torrential rains, floods, and landslides. In the “favelas”, the poor and steep neighbourhoods of the city, this can often lead to a deadly outcome.

Curitiba is a Brazilian city with approximately 1.9 million people and it is the capital of the Paraná state. The urban growth rate was strengthened by the arrival of a lot of European immigrants throughout the nineteenth century: mainly Germans, Poles, Ukrainians and Italians, which contributed to the cultural diversity that remains today.