Bogotá will invest more than $ 11,000 in the Data Analytical Agency (Ágata). It is unknown which blockchain will be used to store the data of the citizens from Bogotá.
Colombia moves forward in its race to adopt new solutions with blockchain. Now, they have announced the creation of a data analysis agency that will use technology to check citizen policies in the country’s capital, Bogotá.
The mayor of Bogotá, Mayor Claudia López, announced on Monday the creation of the Data Analytical Agency (Ágata). The report is in the local newspaper El Tiempo. This research center will center its efforts to change how citizens’ data are analyzed to implement policies in the city, exposes the same source.
Among the policies that will emerge from the analyzes in Ágata, there is the allocation of public resources for jobs or other credits that relates to the production area. “In a year, the information will be able to have access to microcredits from the financial system with the best conditions, to avoid being a subject of traditional usury methods,” López said.
Also, the authorities foresee the use of Agate as a preventive system that will be a very helpful tool to monitor crime and will improve the reaction of the security agencies against crimes committed in the city. For this, Ágata will be able to link data from security cameras around all the Colombian capital.
With the same approach, tests have already been in development with the monitoring of the use of masks for the prevention of covid-19, as an example of how Agata will work to process the data, reported the manager of the TransMilenio transport system, Felipe Ramírez. “The possibilities are immense” with the use of this technology, assured the executive.
The analysis agency is part of the Public Management office of the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá. It has among its partners the Bogotá Telecommunications Company (ETB), the Bogotá Energy Group, the Administrative Unit of Cadastre, the Aqueduct Company and Bogotá fromhe District Planning Secretariat.
For the creation of Ágata, there will be an initial investment of 40 million pesos, just over 11,000 dollars.
The mayor claims that this system will allow decisions to be made transparently. However, it is unknown which blockchain the research center will use if it will be public and will allow independent audits of the data.
The project also does not make it clear how citizens’ data will be handled in terms of privacy and security. In this regard, the agency ensures that there will be no commercialization of the data collected in its system.
Sergio González, President of ETB, assured that all Ágata partners commit to “take care of the personal data of citizens and guarantee the security of the information.”
From government agencies, Colombia keeps a solid step and stance about the adoption of solutions with blockchains for public institutions, even President Iván Duque himself has expressed his intention to move more and more toward that direction.
By: Jenson Nuñez.
