SALVADOR SMART CITY MASTER PLAN: Connect - Empower - Transform

Developed as a strategic plan for urban intervention, management and training, which will catalyze and guide the transformation of Salvador (Bahia, Brazil), from the perspective of a smart city, Salvador Smart City Master Plan contemplates the different urban spaces integration, using infrastructure of pervasive, high-speed and resiliency multi-service connectivity, cloud computing, data privacy and cybersecurity, collaborative platform for governance and digital citizenship, digital technologies and urban big data for predictive analytics, event and command management, and risk warnings, where the present and future of the city is planned for the knowledge democratization, where technology is adapted to meet the needs of urban management, promoting economic development, citizen empowerment and full citizenship. Salvador Smart City Master Plan brings the challenge of transforming a traditional city, into a smarter, more resilient and sustainable environment, aiming at improving the efficiency and reducing the costs of the urban system, through the sustainable solutions implementation, which cover operational and ecosystems, forming collaborative networks of multiple actors (which usually operate in isolation), bringing public authorities and citizens closer together.