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Figure 1 – Relationship between key stakeholders

Source: Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Peru
All these actors (and other identifiable ones) will have interests linked to the idea of "Smart
Sustainable City" in order to:
 Improve the quality of the citizens' life.
 Ensure sustainable economic growth to provide a better standard of life and employment
opportunities for the citizens.
 Improve the welfare of the citizens, which means improving the quality of medical care, welfare,
physical safety, and education, among others.
 Establish and implement a responsible and sustainable approach to environmental management.

 Strengthen prevention and management of natural disasters, including the ability to reduce the
impacts of climate change.
 Provide an effective mechanism for regulatory compliance and well balanced governance, with
policies and standardized processes.
A detailed analysis of stakeholders is available in the Technical Report on Setting the Stage for
Stakeholders’ Engagement in Smart Sustainable Cities.

1.3 Αrchitecture of a Smart Sustainable City

The architecture of SSC has been defined in the corresponding FG‐SSC Technical Specifications on
“Setting the framework for an ICT architecture of a smart sustainable city”,

At a high level, a Meta‐Architecture consists of five layers as depicted in Figure 2.

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