The president of the Government, Marga Prohens, announced this Saturday the award of the project to generate a“Digital Twin of the Balearic Islands” worth 4.6 million euros, a pioneering project that will involve “a virtual representation of the territory that will help to monitor it in real time”.
The digital twin will also make it possible to simulate scenarios, predict events and manage in real time areas such as emergencies, water resources or tourist flows, by progressively incorporating the management of transport, energy or waste, the PP explained in a statement.
“It is an innovative, necessary and ambitious project, which will place the Balearic Islands at the technological forefront and will help to ensure the welfare of both residents and visitors,” said the president.
The announcement was made during the conclusion of the Artificial Intelligence Forum organized by the PP, a day held this Saturday at ParcBit dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and its application in public policy and business innovation.
The event was attended by institutional representatives, technology companies and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), and included the presentation‘AI, a matter of the present‘, by the executive of the consulting firm Gartner, Manuel Torres.
There has also been a round table on governance, power, decision and responsibility in the use of AI, with representatives of Turistec Dolores Ordóñez, APSL Antoni Aloy, the Institute of AI of the UIB Xavier Varona and the City Council of Calvià Isabel Bonet, moderated by Miquel Cardona (IB Digital).
“These are exciting times of constant change. Artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction: it is science, it is reality and it is an opportunity. Faced with this, the Balearic Islands will not stand by and watch and will go out to lead,” said Prohens in her speech.
“Innovation “pole of attraction
During her speech, the president presented a battery of measures and investments aimed at consolidating the Balearic Islands as a benchmark in“innovation and technology“.
Among them, he highlighted the six-fold increase in investment in robots that process files and documents, up to five million euros, to “streamline the Administration and gain efficiency” or the four million euros to expand the sensor network and consolidate the Balearic Islands Intelligent Territory, with real-time data to “improve decision making”.
He also highlighted the two million euros to start up the Balearic Islands Supercomputing and Artificial Intelligence Center, in collaboration with the UIB and located in ParcBit.
In addition, Prohens announced the ParcBit Business and Talent Attraction and Loyalty Plan, with an unprecedented investment of 62 million euros to turn the technology park into “a true Mediterranean innovation hub”.
The plan includes rental housing for researchers and workers, the recovery of land for new companies and the modernization of infrastructure.
He also highlighted the refurbishment of CentreBit Menorca -with 5.8 million euros- and the creation of the new CentreBit Ibiza, which already houses companies and will have an additional 2,000 square meters of space.
“The Government is building a Balearic innovation space present in all the islands, to turn the Balearic Islands into the innovation hub of the Mediterranean,” he said.
Support measures
In the economic sphere, the president announced measures to support technological and innovative companies, such as the expansion of the line of aid for innovation for small and medium-sized enterprises, which had not been called since 2018, to 8.3 million euros, an increase of 124% over the initial budget.
There will also be a line of guarantees through the mutual guarantee company ISBA of five million euros to finance innovative projects or the creation of the first participative loans in the Balearic Islands, endowed with three million euros, to finance technology-based entrepreneurial projects.
Prohens has highlighted the tax reform promoted by the PP, currently in parliamentary proceedings, which extends the tax regime of the Balearic Islands with a 45% deduction to corporate income tax for R+D+i activities.
“The Government puts all the tools available to make the Balearic Islands a laboratory of innovative ideas, with freedom and public-private collaboration,” he remarked.
For this reason, he defended that there is no innovation “without private initiative” and affirmed that the Govern’s model is “working together, without dogmas or ideologies”, with the goal of “building the future”.
The president stressed that the Balearic Islands have “always been at the forefront, first in tourism and then in sustainability”. In this way, she argued that now it is time for them to also be in technology and innovation, so she reaffirmed the commitment of the Government and the PP to turn this stage into “the legislature of innovation, digital transformation and artificial intelligence”.
“The Government does not want an innovation disconnected from society, but useful, practical and at the service of the people who raise these islands every day, because if anything defines the PP project is to look to the future with courage and ambition, to transform the islands,” he concluded.
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