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Implementing ITU-T International Standards to shape Smart Sustainable Cities - The case of Moscow

Information City

In accordance with the foregoing mandate, a Smart City strategy called “Information City” was
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implemented in 2011 until the end of 2018. This strategy has taken a tri-lateral stakeholder
approach in which the interaction between government, business and citizens was the focus
when formulating and implementing Smart City solutions. The goals of Information City were to
establish electronic services for citizens and businesses, to deliver smart municipal management
services that would galvanise the city’s advertising and media sector, and to modernise its
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telecommunications infrastructure. The city has invested more than 600 million USD every
year since 2011 in achieving these objectives – an investment which is made possible because
the city is home to many of the country’s top businesses and generates significant revenue from
taxes and tourism. 20 The strategy thus capitalized successfully on its synergistic tri-lateral
stakeholder focus, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Moscow’s smart sustainability stakeholders

Major Smart City solutions were designed within the Information City framework. Moscow has
invested significantly in ICT infrastructure development, machine-to-machine (m2m) projects,
e-healthcare, e-education, public services delivery, citizen engagement, and other key areas of
life via the tri-lateral stakeholder approach among the three main stakeholder groups.

18 Athar (2018)
19 Simpson (2017)
20 Martinidis (2017)

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