Smart-city program helps flag storm risks in Santiago Se Santiago, a smart city program of Corfo Metropolitano, brings together 180 technological solutions for the urban challenges of the Metropolitan Region. Part of this infrastructure was put to the test this month by a frontal system that affected Chile, left more than 600,000 customers without electricity and triggered evacuations in the center and north of the country. BNamericas spoke with Solange Arredondo, manager of Se Santiago, about Santiago’s resilient infrastructure, the role of technology in risk prevention and the financing models to scale the program to the region’s 52 municipalities. BNamericas: What are the main challenges today for infrastructure and essential services, and what is Sé Santiago working on to make infrastructure more resilient? Arredondo: Sé Santiago is a program of Corfo Metropolitano, which shows where the focus of our work lies. Corfo is a public agency that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship, with a role in accelerating industries that are relevant at the national level, such as tourism or green hydrogen, and in the case of the Metropolitan Region, what we now call smart city. The program seeks to make Santiago a smarter city, with a focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology. But we do not understand a smart city merely as a city full of sensors or cameras, but as one that addresses the pains it has, just as governor [Claudio] Orrego describes them. We identify at least three or four, which are also reflected in Santiago’s Regional Development Strategy. The first is territorial fragmentation: we have an administrative model with 52 municipalities in the Metropolitan Region, and each one is an island that autonomously decides what cameras it installs, what type of bike lane or what lighting it uses. The Government of Santiago, through its strategy and its own