The Mexico City Y Veracruz signed a collaboration agreement on technological innovation, where the goal is for the capital authorities to help this entity in the southeast in the process of strengthening digital infrastructure in its different areas of operation.
For example, it seeks to implement a regulatory improvement in Veracruz through a website system, which, in addition to allowing the simplification of times for procedures related to the opening of economic unitsalso help improve the collection process.
This Sunday, from the Old City Hall Palace, the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, explained that it will be Digital Agency for Public Innovation (ADIP) who helps improve the Veracruz digital infrastructure and that the achievements of the capital can be replicated.
“In this case, it is Technology at the service of the citizen and that is what today we are signing in collaboration (…) There are several issues where we have been able to advance in the city, from a digital license, procedures that we They allow to reduce times”, he specified.
For his part, the head of the ADIP, Jose Antonio Pena Merino, highlighted the actions that have been implemented in the capital and that they seek to replicate in Veracruz, for example, reported that in three years the number of procedures, such as permits and tax payments, was reduced from 2,000 to just over 1,000.
“The truth is, we are very excited to be able to share the experience of the ADIP with other governments and especially with governments that are part of the same project of national transformation and public life,” he stressed.
Also, he remarked, from 14 requirements to carry out procedures in the city, they went to just over nine and from having less than five digitized procedures to more than 50.
“Today there are almost 50 fully digitized procedures, among the most important that you know are 500,000 Circulation Cards in endorsement, 302,000 digital complaints, 81,000 non-criminal records, renewals of Type A License. A fine, digital minutes, which were recently announced, of death, marriage and birth”, he deepened.
At the same time, he commented that the creation of the App CDMX as the unified point of attention and digitization, and it was possible to generate CDMX Key, as a mechanism for people to carry out procedures.
“Today we have 2.92 million Key Accounts in Mexico City, that means that 6,000 accounts are created every day, on average,” he reiterated.
Another effort being made in Veracruz is to improve digital connectivity, based on the fact that Mexico City is the most connected in the world, since it has 21,865 free internet access points.
“This generated, only in 2021, 23 million connections and this year we want to close with 25,325 access points that include 300 neighborhoods that today do not have connectivity, 300 stations of Metrobus, all public elementary and middle schools, state high schools, Institute of Higher Secondary Education of Mexico City and the three universities of the city, the Autonomous University of Mexico City, the Rosario Castellanos Institute and the Health University, he pointed out.
Peña Merino stressed that the country’s capital also has the first Data center managed by a local government, as well as the ICREA III Certification.
Digital innovation will generate savings: Cuitláhuac García
The Governor of Veracruz, Cuitlahuac Garcia Jimenez, highlighted that this new agreement will allow the entity to have greater infrastructure mechanisms, which will make it more attractive in economic terms.
At the same time, he stressed that digital innovation will also allow him to generate budget savings.
“I congratulate Dr. Claudia, her team because they show this part, as they have said here, that is, save 2,000 million pesos on this. We are betting that this good practice that is being carried out here, in Mexico City, we can also do there,” he said.
In this regard, the head of the ADIP explained that the Software Factory was created with a total of 30 programmers and that it has generated 250 own developments.
“This has generated savings of more than 2,000 million pesos, this is what it would have cost us if we had contracted them with private companies; Instead, the Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum, bet on a Software factory with talent from Mexico City that has generated these savings”, he commented.
He pointed out that with this the city was ranked number one in the world with internet access points, which also saved 864 million pesos as part of the renegotiation of the connectivity contract.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx