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Figure 28: Nuclear IT elements of a city

The main ICT core elements of a city are as follows:

• Corporate databases: They must contain the minimum information of those elements that
are unique in any city: territory, organization and citizenship (also companies). In an SOA
environment such as the one previously defined, it will allow the rest of the information systems
to consult and update these unique elements.

• Electronic Administration Platform. The information systems of support to the administrative
business have in common the management of the administrative file as elements of administrative
action that contains documents, data and administrative actions. As will be seen a posteriori,
the administrative processing requires as enabling elements of a comprehensive Electronic
Administration: electronic records, electronic headquarters, a catalogue of administrative
procedures, certified digitization applications, electronic identification systems, management
of electronic documents, management of governing bodies, electronic signature holders, and
electronic file. The different information systems should focus on their business needs, leaving
the administrative processing to these transversal systems.

• Geographic Information Management. All cities have in common that they deploy their
services within a territory. The location of all municipal assets in a geographic information
system allows many municipal services to develop their management in a coordinated manner
in a spatial reality. The integration of this spatial data offers excellent possibilities for open data,
as well as analytical capabilities on spatial data.

• Urban Data Platforms. This constitutes the main data infrastructure of a city with integration
capabilities of the Internet of Things and municipal information systems. This unique city
repository (Big Data) allows analytical capabilities and services for citizens such as open data
portal, city app, internal management and citizenship dashboards.

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