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Role/contribution to SSC rollout Provide the ICT infrastructure to support and integrate SSC services. It has to be standard, compatible and scalable. Research and innovate to provide better technical solutions. Develop innovative and financially sustainable business models to enable SSC implementations. Give advice on how to achieve social sustainability. Raise awareness of concerns of the population. Ensure inclusiveness of all

Lack of expertise – in city management services. – Urgency to deploy ICT services due to customers' – demands. – Limited resources: (economic, – human...). Limited power of – influence on local, national and international agendas.

Potential and constraints – – R+D departments business models. – raising awareness of concerns of the watching over the – weakest sectors of legitimacy to raise

– Experience and expertise on transversal solutions and integration of services. – with significant budgets. Expertise in – developing Experience on – population, on society and developing initiatives. Knowledge on – social sustainability. Impartiality and – issues.

Difficulties to access cities services contests to offer SSC projects that are still directed to vertical city Lack of legal & commercial framework to provide SSC They do not have an active role in SSC solutions deployment. With increasing populations, inequity, poverty and social strains are going to be increased in

Aims and challenges – services. – services. – – urban cities.

Finding new fields for business development. To provide services based on positive business cases. Ensuring social sustainability, inclusiveness and equity on a local and national level.

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Scale/ sector Supralocal Private Local & Supralocal

Stakeholder

ICT Companies

NGOs

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