Ciudad Limpia Valdivia is a Web and Mobile application which attempts to tackle some of the aforementioned issues for the Municipality of Valdivia in Chile. It is based on Free and Open Source Software and it is currently in the last stage of prototyping. Its development has incorporated geospatial analyses as well as some tools from computational intelligence and machine learning. In particular, approximately one year of the municipality's waste collection routes captured by Satellite Navigation Systems have been used to study the system’s behaviour for a target neighborhood. Also, surveys were conducted in that neighborhood to evaluate the interest in the application and to assess its potential impact. The waste collection routes dataset will now be used to train a system capable of estimating the arrival of the corresponding waste collection truck to a particular point selected by the user, using machine learning techniques. The “real-time” position of the trucks is shown in the application, thus giving feedback to the user of the current status of the service. Another important feature of the application is the illegal dumping reporting that will be received by the municipality. Ciudad Limpia Valdivia's goal is to be a bridge of communication between the citizens and the municipality.

This paper will present the general concept design of the whole application, the survey’s results, the current development status and preliminary analyses of the routes dataset. It will also discuss the next stages in the project as well as future work after the prototyping phase is finished. Additionally, the discussion will address the importance of Free and Open Source Software in this kind of application with a social impact in the community.