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

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

Dubai has launched the “My Community…A Aspiring smart cities must also cater to the
City for Everyone” in 2016, which aims at differently abled individuals of society by
turning Dubai into a disability friendly city by introducing ICT-based innovations including apps
2020. The objectives of this initiative aim to and other services to foster and ease their
promote equal opportunities, drive social involvement in daily urban activities.
cohesion, build social capital and minimize
social exclusion.

Other Actions needed for Dubai and other aspiring smart sustainable cities

Projects and city services

Cities should focus efforts on incorporating projects and city services that could enable the
empowerment of women and integrate groups of people who are at risk of exclusion; such as
disabled individuals, elderly people, etc. The need of assessment frameworks which includes KPIs
such as the Gini coefficient and gender income disparity will facilitate this process and allow
alignment with other cities in the journey to become smart and sustainable.
The Gini coefficient is defined as the relationship of cumulative shares of the population arranged
according to the level of equalized disposable income, to the cumulative share of the equalized
total disposable income received by them

City services
Cities should work on the development of measurement frameworks to assess the
e-transformation of private solutions that could impact city services provision to excluded groups
and women. For example: private e-commerce transactions, e-payment transactions, private
e-education systems, private cultural e-initiatives.

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