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Each of these working groups is led by two co-chairmen.
 Working Group 1 is co-chaired by Ms. Maria-Luisa Marsal Llacuna from Future Cities Catapult
and Mr. Tomás Llorente, Secretary of State for the Information Society and the Digital Agenda,
SESIAD, Spain
 Working Group 2 is co-chaired by Mr. John Smiciklas from Building Owners and Managers
Association of Canada and Mr. Hazem Galal from PwC
 Working Group 3 is co-chaired by Ms Kari Aina Eik, Organization for International Economic
Relations (OiER) and Mr. Okan Geray, Smart Dubai Office.
Each working group held regular e-meetings to discuss their progress on their deliverables. Three online
management meetings were held to discuss the on-going activities within each working group and to ensure
that there was no glaring overlap between the deliverables.

The co-chairmen maintained regular contact with their working group members to ensure that the products
were submitted to the U4SSC Secretariat on time.

2.1 Results
The first phase of the U4SSC ended in March 2017. A series of 24 output documents were developed based
on existing smart city and sustainable development related activities. Given the rising importance of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), some of these documents were produced in view of one specific
Sustainable Development Goal.

The second U4SSC meeting will be held in Manizales, Colombia on 5 April during the Green Standards Week
2017. This meeting will set the new vision and action plan for phase 2 of the U4SSC.
The products generated by U4SSC in phase 1 will also be discussed and finalised at this meeting. Following
the approval of the products, they will be published together as a flipbook in April 2017. This flipbook will
also map the existing U4SSC products to the SDGs as well as other international targets and conventions.

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 flipbook developed by the U4SSC in phase one
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 eventually be approved as international standards by ITU, which in addition to its role as the
UN agency for ICTs, also serves as an international standards developing organization.

A References

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

This case study has been prepared by

Cristina Bueti and Mythili Menon (ITU)

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