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An Evaluation of the Relevance of Global Models of Indicators for Latin American Cities

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The local governments planning is the main tool to met the citizen needs. One of the components of this tool should include the outlines to take advantage of technology. But the people responsible to plan need specific metrics to measure how they are using the technology. This paper purpose an study of the relevance of the global indicators related to Cities with the best conditions to live or visit. We compared a set of models and the data of some indicators about Latin America cities and top cities around the world.

This research have analyzed a set of models provided by academy, industry and government and using a method deductive summarize the relevant indicators for Latinoamerica. We plan evaluate global models with a set of real dataset of some cities in order to create a model of indicators relevant to Latin America cities.

Supported by Universidad Tecnoógica Israel.

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Carrión, J., Coba, P., Pérez, M. (2020). An Evaluation of the Relevance of Global Models of Indicators for Latin American Cities. In: Botto-Tobar, M., León-Acurio, J., Díaz Cadena, A., Montiel Díaz, P. (eds) Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies. ICAETT 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1066. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32022-5_7

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