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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Connecting cities and communities with the Sustainable Development Goals

The first year of work of the U4SSC lasted from May 2016 to March 2017 and concluded with the
development of a number of deliverables.

The second U4SSC meeting was held in Manizales, Colombia on 5 April, during the Green Standards Week
2017. This meeting set the new U4SSC vision and action plan for the upcoming year.
U4SSC is working on the following deliverables:

1. Guidelines on tools and mechanisms to finance SSC project
2. Guidelines on strategies for circular cities
3. City science application framework
4. Guiding principles for artificial intelligence in cities
5. Blockchain 4 cities
6. Toolkit for Smart Sustainable Cities

Each deliverable is expected to be prepared in one year. E-meetings to discuss progress on each deliverable
will be held regularly.

2.1 Results

During the first year of activity, several output documents were developed based on existing smart city and
sustainable development activities. Given the rising importance of the SDGs, some of these documents were
produced in view of one specific SDG. The deliverables generated by U4SSC in the first year of its existence,
have been collected in three different publications.

3 Conclusion

The U4SSC members have done commendable work in identifying and presenting feasible policies, measures
and guidelines for smart and sustainable city transitions. The flipbooks developed by the U4SSC will be used
as the basis to derive the best practices for establishing smart cities and submitting new contributions to
ITU-T SG20 on Internet of Things and Smart Cities and Communities, with the expectation that they will
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eventually be approved as international standards by ITU .

A References

United for Smart Sustainable Cities.
https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ssc/united/Pages/default.aspx (accessed on 18 February 2017)

51 In addition to its role as the UN agency for ICTs, ITU also serves as an international standards developing organization

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