This Friday, Mayor Francisco Azcué led the launch of the XX Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Argentine Republic (IDERA) Conference and the United Nations International Seminar on the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, which will have Concordia as its host from July 1st to 3rd, marking a milestone as it is organized by a local government for the first time.
The IDERA Days bring together leaders from the public, private, academic, and scientific spheres to exchange experiences, present developments, and debate on the management of geospatial information, a key input for planning and strategic decision-making in governments.
For three days, the city will be a meeting point for the exchange of knowledge, the creation of networks, and the construction of tools that allow for the improvement of the quality of public policies, with a direct impact on the lives of citizens.
Mayor Azcué recalled that after Concordia's participation in the 2025 edition of the Conference, the challenge was to work towards our city being chosen: “we took on the challenge and were able to make it a reality, which puts us on par with any city or capital in the country,” noting that this “was not a matter of chance, but of the imprint that the administration has been giving to everything related to technology and innovation in public administration.”
Working on this type of policy “helped us organize the municipality and in decision-making; doing so not with intuition or a politician's criteria, but with scientific bases,” highlighted Azcué, citing as an example what is being carried out through the Infrastructure and Development Plan towards the Bicentennial.
“This has allowed us to plan efficiently and reduce public spending, which today allows us to channel it into works or responses that the city demands of us. We will continue working in that direction, together with institutions, the private sector, and the academic sector, because we trust in the path we have taken,” concluded the mayor of Concordia.
General Director of Administrative Modernization of the Province, Alejandro Marcelo Mildenberger, maintained that “the decisions we make are anchored in a territory, they arise from and respond to that territory and the reality that the citizens live there. Having updated data and a scientific basis is vital to face the challenge that we all owe to governments, which is further complicated in the current context, with artificial intelligence and the over-information we witness daily.”
For his part, the president of the National Geographic Institute (IGN) and Executive Secretary of IDERA, Marcelo Ancarola, thanked all those who made the XX Conference possible, which will bring together different sectors in the same space with the aim of debating but also exchanging experiences on the role that geospatial information currently plays.
He also highlighted what will take place beforehand, on June 4th and 5th, the SIG-IDE Conference, oriented towards technical training and knowledge transfer linked to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), with the participation of specialists from national agencies.
Present were the Secretary of Cabinet Coordination and Treasury Pablo Ferreyra; Virginia Bezzolo, representative of Entre Ríos in IDERA; Marcelo Emery, head of the IDERA area at IGN; Sebastián Scévola, Director of Spatial Data Infrastructure; representatives of the Concordia Regional Faculty of the National Technological University (UTN) and official institutions and agencies.
The IDERA Days bring together leaders from the public, private, academic, and scientific spheres to exchange experiences, present developments, and debate on the management of geospatial information, a key input for planning and strategic decision-making in governments.
For three days, the city will be a meeting point for the exchange of knowledge, the creation of networks, and the construction of tools that allow for the improvement of the quality of public policies, with a direct impact on the lives of citizens.
Mayor Azcué recalled that after Concordia's participation in the 2025 edition of the Conference, the challenge was to work towards our city being chosen: “we took on the challenge and were able to make it a reality, which puts us on par with any city or capital in the country,” noting that this “was not a matter of chance, but of the imprint that the administration has been giving to everything related to technology and innovation in public administration.”
Working on this type of policy “helped us organize the municipality and in decision-making; doing so not with intuition or a politician's criteria, but with scientific bases,” highlighted Azcué, citing as an example what is being carried out through the Infrastructure and Development Plan towards the Bicentennial.
“This has allowed us to plan efficiently and reduce public spending, which today allows us to channel it into works or responses that the city demands of us. We will continue working in that direction, together with institutions, the private sector, and the academic sector, because we trust in the path we have taken,” concluded the mayor of Concordia.
General Director of Administrative Modernization of the Province, Alejandro Marcelo Mildenberger, maintained that “the decisions we make are anchored in a territory, they arise from and respond to that territory and the reality that the citizens live there. Having updated data and a scientific basis is vital to face the challenge that we all owe to governments, which is further complicated in the current context, with artificial intelligence and the over-information we witness daily.”
For his part, the president of the National Geographic Institute (IGN) and Executive Secretary of IDERA, Marcelo Ancarola, thanked all those who made the XX Conference possible, which will bring together different sectors in the same space with the aim of debating but also exchanging experiences on the role that geospatial information currently plays.
He also highlighted what will take place beforehand, on June 4th and 5th, the SIG-IDE Conference, oriented towards technical training and knowledge transfer linked to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), with the participation of specialists from national agencies.
Present were the Secretary of Cabinet Coordination and Treasury Pablo Ferreyra; Virginia Bezzolo, representative of Entre Ríos in IDERA; Marcelo Emery, head of the IDERA area at IGN; Sebastián Scévola, Director of Spatial Data Infrastructure; representatives of the Concordia Regional Faculty of the National Technological University (UTN) and official institutions and agencies.