Recently the award given to the city in the LATAM Smart City Awards came to Bogotá. In its text it highlights the following: "Recognizes the Mayor's Office of Bogota, Colombia. For its agile planning in the management of public space and mobility and the physical distance between people".
This award highlights the administration's early response to the mobility challenges posed by the pandemic through the LUS strategies (Handwashing every three hours, Proper use of the mouthpiece and Separate) and WINGS of distance, a pedagogical mechanism that, through the figures of some birds with extended wings, invites citizens to separate two wings of distance to ensure safe distance.
Regarding this recognition, the Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, pointed out, "The challenges we faced were enormous, to face a pandemic as we all know it today, is to face the risk of massive death. With much wisdom and with the clarity that life was the most important thing, most Bogotanos supported that we take care of them above any other consideration. It was Bogotá that led a simulation of what it would be like to face a quarantine for several weeks, that decision made in conjunction with other mayors and governors of the country, soon led the national government to adopt the same policy".
Regarding these measures highlighted by Smart City Expo LATAM, which have allowed for sustained reactivation, the director of citizen culture, Henry Murrain, expressed that, "These strategies have made visible and celebrated the great capacity for adaptation and the high level of commitment on the part of the inhabitants of Bogotá to modify their usual behaviors and collaborate in this collective crisis.
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