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The projects also involve coordination and collaboration with the rest of the Local Administrations
(city councils) of the island, as beneficiaries of the services and as potential generators of new
services that can be implemented on the platform.

Likewise, different collaboration agreements have been concluded with the public and private
sectors for the adequate and coordinated deployment of infrastructure and services, and for the
operation and analysis of information in order to ensure maximum efficiency and competence.
Collaboration partners include:

• RESCAN (Canary Islands Safety and Emergency Network of the Government of the Canary
Islands) for the management of the infrastructure deployed in relation to the TETRA network
(Safety and Emergency Network) and the integration into its network.
• IGN (Instituto Geográfico Nacional – National Geographic Institute) and INVOLCAN (Instituto
Volcanológico de Canarias – Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands) for data processing
from volcanological stations.

• Port Authorities (State ports and Canary Islands Ports).
• Cooperative Society for the Transport of Travellers of the Island of El Hierro (TransHierro).

• Telecommunication operators.

It is also necessary to explain that the El Hierro En Red initiative is being executed within a
collaboration agreement between the Cabildo de El Hierro and Red.es (belonging to the current
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation) for the development of the “Smart Cities
and Communities” initiative, financed with community funds (Operational Programme ERDF 2014-
2020).

As mentioned above, the project is now in its execution phase; consequently, one of the tasks is to
inform citizens about the services and technologies deployed, mainly through the web, the mobile
application and open-data portals.

The Cabildo public bids include requirements for integration with the tools that are being
implemented.

3.6 Economic sustainability

As previously explained, the El Hierro En Red initiative being executed is based on a collaboration
agreement between the Cabildo de El Hierro and Red.es and financed with community funds in
the 2014–2020 Operational Programme ERDF.

For its Smart Island strategy, the Cabildo de El Hierro assigned in its annual budgets a specific
economic item for this purpose, in addition to the budget for other digital or technological
transformation projects such as Electronic Administration, corporate services or communications.

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