Challenge completedBuilding a Smart and Waste-Free Destination
- Spanish Briefing available / bases del concurso disponible en español -
How can we build a smart and waste-free touristic destination that accelerates economic, social and sustainable development? Help the local government of Portoviejo (Ecuador) in building its city as a blueprint for a sustainable and smart destination. Develop or apply your technology-driven innovations in order to foster positive change.
Submission Template
For the participation within the Innovate 2030 program, a common submission template is available. This template will help you to structure your ideas and approaches and to find answers to all relevant questions.
The Submission Template is mandatory to submit.
Please find the spanish version of the Submission Template here. / La versión español de las plantillas de presentación se encuentra aquí.
In addition to this submission template, you will find specific requirements and guiding questions for your use case in the "Guiding Questions" section down below.
You can also complement your submission with prototypes, pitch decks, image and video materials, higher-level concepts, or specific use case-related instruments – simply submit these documents along with the submission template via our platform.
Guiding Questions
This Challenge is calling for the most innovative digital solutions, concepts or use cases of existing digital solutions that foster a sustainable social and environmental development in Portoviejo by enhancing opportunities of smart and sustainable tourism.
The following guiding questions are for your inspiration, and it is not mandatory to answer all of them.
- How to improve solid waste management to create a sustainable tourist destination?
- How to reduce solid waste through the use of technology for a sustainable tourism destination?
- Who will be involved in a smart and sustainable tourism destination?
- How can Portoviejo be positioned locally and internationally through a digital solution?
- What technologies can be used to improve solid waste management in a smart and sustainable tourism destination?
- How can smart tourism solutions contribute to improving the standard of living of the population in areas such as solid waste management and sustainable consumption?
Key Objectives
The goal is to make Portoviejo an innovative, active and prosperous canton.
The core focus is to increase the income of taxpayers with economic activity in the canton - a smart and sustainable tourism and thus destination should promote exactly that and contribute to essential areas of economic and social development:
- The end of poverty
- Gender equality
- Decent work and economic growth
- Development of industry, innovation and infrastructure
- Reduction of inequalities
- Sustainable cities and communities
- Responsible reduction of consumption
All smart tourism solutions should directly or indirectly contribute to these development goals.
The desired outcome of this challenge is to develop concrete digital solutions or solid waste management models for smart tourism management that uses the collection of smart data and smart approaches, adapted to the needs of current and future tourism after the pandemic, driving the promotion of technological innovation in the tourism sector in the city of Portoviejo.