By Gaby B. Keith

BAGUIO CITY — The city council adopted resolution no. 532, series of 2024, granting authority to Mayor Benjamin Magalong representing the city government to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with SRPost Inc., represented by its Chief Executive Officer, Changyong Oh, for the implementation of the project ‘GIS Map-Based AI Heterogeneous Data Convergence City Management System’ in the Summer Capital.

In his letter dated July 9, this year, the Mayor requested for authority to enter into a MOA with SRPost Inc. for the said project’s implementation in which the august body’s committee on laws, human rights and justice, in its 2nd endorsement dated July 23, recommended approval.

SRPost Inc. was selected for a three-year Research and Development funding grant from the European Research Coordination Agency (EUREKA) Network Funding Program through the initiative of the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO) of which the city government of Baguio is also a member.

The approved measure stated that the company has selected the city as a pilot site for the said project with a key objective of a cloud-based smart city management system in line with Baguio’s vision to be a full-fledged Smart City by 2027.

The proposed advanced cloud-based monitoring system targets to generate metadata from information gathered from live video feeds of surveillance cameras already deployed in the city which aims to enhance its situational awareness and facilitate more efficient city management with the provision of a user-friendly dashboard interface.

The resolution stated that the said MOA shall be submitted to the local legislature for confirmation