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Some of the main funding mechanisms that can be used to support the activities involved in this
stage are summarized in Table 3.

Table 3 – ICT infrastructure funding methods

Funding Mechanism Description

Taxes Pay using taxes
Redemption from taxes (tax or Local government taxing rights are exchanged for
rates) infrastructure or services
Initial capital comes from financial leverage from partners.
Loans + Free Cash Flow
After that the project can try to sustain itself
Local Government as a Major Funds provided by city government
Customer

Advertising Funds generated by advertising
Funds collected from other public services used to maintain
Utilities Allowance
infrastructures. Some regulations prevent this system
Corporate Donations Some corporations can donate funds
Agreements with Private Agreement with private companies to offer funds free of
Companies charge to the public
National or Multinational Funds coming from national or multinational organizations.
Subsidies
Local government ends up with a project originally created as
Cooperative Projects
a cooperative and community project
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Source: ITU‐T FG‐SSC, 2014

Further information on the role of SSC infrastructure is available at:
 FG‐SSC Technical Report on “Overview of SSC infrastructure”.

e) Data Security and EMF
All cities need to consider two fundamental topics in order to protect their citizens in a new context
of smartness and sustainability; cybersecurity and data security, to protect the citizen data, and
electromagnetic fields (EMF), to address existing concerns of the public around this topic.

Data Security

SSC apply the use of technologies in many different areas of the city (e.g., infrastructure, resource
management, public services, industrial systems, social aspects, security). They do this in more
extensive and intensive ways than traditional cities, and thus generate larger amounts of valuable
data. This information is needed to improve the efficiency of cities. However, its management can
be challenging.
One of the principal objectives of any city is to become a safe place to live for its citizens. In a smart
sustainable city, citizens' security must be expanded to data security (i.e., cyber‐security and data
protection) in order to protect one of its most important resources.

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15 Ibid.

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