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

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The ITU KPIs for smart sustainable cities are sorted into six dimensions:
1) Information & communications technologies.
2) Environmental sustainability.
3) Productivity.
4) Equity and social inclusion.
5) Quality of life.
6) Physical infrastructure.

Following closely on the heels of Dubai, Singapore – along with Valencia, Buenos Aires, Pully,
Manizales, Rimini and Montevideo among others – has initiated a unique collaboration with ITU
to test and verify the KPIs on smart sustainable cities for the period 2015–2017.
Accordingly, Recommendations ITU-T Y4901/L.1601 and ITU-T Y.4902/L.1602 are being used to
help Singapore and other participating cities to analyse the considerations and impacts of ICT in
making cities smarter and more sustainable. More specifically, these ITU-T Recommendations
will provide current and future partner cities with an effective tool for self-assessments and
evaluation of their “smartness” and “sustainability” schemes and plans. These standards are also
intended to be used for monitoring the city’s ongoing performance with respect to its smart city
goals.

Box 1 – United for Smart Sustainable Cities initiative

United for Smart Sustainable Cities
On 18 May 2016, ITU and UNECE established the United for Smart Sustainable Cities initiative (U4SSC),
which serves as the international platform for knowledge sharing and developing best practices linked
to smart sustainable cities.

This global platform was created in response to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11:
“Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” Unlike other smart city
platforms, this initiative is open to all interested parties who wish to contribute to its work.
U4SSC is now a UN initiative supported by the following bodies: the Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD); the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO); the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); the Regional
Bureau for Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA); the United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe (UNECE); the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UN-Women); the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment); the United Nations
Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI); the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC); the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat); the
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO); the United Nations University-
Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV); and the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO).

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These categories have been established based on core themes that organize commonalities between
the indicators.

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