Experiencies in the use of free software for the territorial management of the historic centre of la Habana Vieja

Abstract

The Office of the Historian of the City of Havana, conscious of the growing penetration of Information and Communications Technologies in society intends, through the establishment of the system described here, to endow to its numerous entities and also to the public in general of a powerful system of territorial information that an integral management of the territory carries out, considering aspects of historic heritage, the environment, social, quality of life and administrative aspects, amongst others and helps in decision making.  There has been a strong commitment for the utilisation of free software in the solutions presented at par that has improved the connectivity of the entities, counting upon the technological support of LABEIN-Tecnalia.