The environmental quality of the locations where citizens perform their daily activities is determinant for their health and overall well-being. In this regarding, the urban parks have a great potential for human health and sustainability because of the ecosystem services they supply, such as regulation of air temperature, improving of air quality and prevention of mental and physical illness. However, the people is not enough well-informed about those benefits and they don’t visit massively the urban parks. In my case of study, Chile, an ambitious program has developed a great number of new urban parks in the last decade, but despite some novel cultural changes, Chileans prefer to visit commercial centres or stay at home. The purpose of this research is to promote the use of urban parks by providing scientific-based data by means of Information and communications technologies (ICT). The aim of the ongoing research project is quantify the ecosystem services provided by urban parks to their surroundings. Our approach started with an analysis of multi-spectral satellite imagery for getting data about the distribution of warmest places, green components (vegetation) and grey components (buildings and sealed surfaces) inside and outside a sample of urban parks in Santiago de Chile. This ground data was complemented with data from sensors able to monitor air temperature and humidity inside two parks and in their surroundings. Alternatives for sharing the generated data represents opportunities for innovations. Beyond the traditional ways, i.e. newspapers, websites or flyers/posters, an innovative option is to display the better environmental quality of urban parks through ICT devices located in strategic parts of the city in order to stimulate the behaviour of citizens and its preference for staying in urban parks instead of commercial centres or at home. The final objective is to stimulate the citizen’s behaviours to inspire on themselves the performance of healthy activities in healthy places. The experimental work can be replicated anywhere.
