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Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities – The Case of Dubai

buildings by 2030 starting with government buildings. This initiative will not only achieve power
and water savings, but it is expected to enhance occupant productivity and provide a more ideal
working environment within government buildings. Energy intensity mapping will result in the
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development of a database to monitor energy consumption footprint (kWh/m ) in buildings.
This project is currently on going and a pilot software programme to manage collected data is
under development.

Opportunities for Improvement: What have we learnt?

Best practices in aspiring smart sustainable cities

After reviewing the main smart city related activities in Dubai under each dimension, this section
highlights a few of the best practices. These best practices from Dubai illustrated in this section
will help gain an in-depth understanding of “the process” of formulating measures for smart city
development, which can assist aspiring smart cities in similar situations.

This section also lays out some suggested actions for cities which are on similar smart city
trajectory. It is foreseen that implementation of such actions will improve the feasibility,
relevance and applicability of the KPIs to Dubai as well as to other aspiring smart sustainable
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cities.
This Section will also help ITU initiate the process of benchmarking smart city practices for the
Global Smart Sustainable City Index.

4.1.1. Dimension 1: Information and Communication Technologies

Suggested Action for other aspiring smart
Measures Adopted by Dubai
sustainable cities (based on Dubai’s experience)

Dubai has introduced a secure and reliable City administrators are encouraged to incorporate
ICT infrastructure for the provision of urban ICTs into their existing urban infrastructures before
services to its citizens. commencing their smart city journey, with the aim of
upgrading their current services.

3 Implementing these best practices need not guarantee high level of verifiability of the data
provided given the dynamic and individualistic nature of urban systems. However, the best
practices in this Section are certainly expected to improve the overall applicability of the KPIs in
emerging smart cities.

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