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Connecting cities and communities with the Sustainable Development Goals

Working together and in keeping with the overall smart-city agenda, the Scottish cities aim to create a smart
ecosystem and deliver services to meet the needs of their citizens and enhance their overall quality of life.
Scotland’s smart-city agenda will help overcome the major socio-economic challenges and help the region
transition into a smart and sustainable entity, keeping in mind the importance of the environment in the
urban ecosystem. These activities will also help set the benchmark for such future endeavours.

3 Conclusions

Scotland has adopted a unique region-wide network model for smart and sustainable cities, which when
coupled with their Green ICT strategy, caters to both the concepts of ‘low-carbon cities’ and ‘smart cities’.
This model is essentially co-designed with Scottish residents, to support the scale-up, commercialization and
export of feasible and successful smart city and green ICT solutions implemented in Scotland.

Overall Scotland’s smart-city agenda and Green ICT strategy is expected to boost the global profile of cities
in the region, attract investments, foster environmental protection against climate change, facilitate
knowledge transfer and protect vulnerable sections of society.

This has paved the way for a new form of urban development, which will present the urban ecosystem with
a certain regenerative capacity and policies to mitigate the effects of climate change and progress towards
SDG 13.

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