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

Smart Moscow 2030

The IT-department is currently working to support the new “Smart Moscow 2030” strategy that
is under development and will replace the Information City strategy after 2018. This new
strategy will consolidate Moscow’s current efforts in making the city smarter and it will become
the blueprint for creating a digital future for Muscovites. The strategy starts with a new and
updated vision for a Smart Moscow (Box 3). It will define new goals that will see the
implementation of digital technologies in all aspects of city planning, so benefitting citizens and
improving their quality of life (Box 4).

Smart Moscow 2030: Vision

Use digital technologies to:

 make citizens happier, healthier and more educated, and to boost their well-being;
 make the city safer, greener, more environment-friendly, comfortable for life,
sustainable, and joyful;
 create a favorable environment for the business, entrepreneurship and scientific

communities that would facilitate well-being, innovations and the transformation
of the city into a live laboratory for growth and development
 unite people, in order to enhance living standards and city governance efficiency;
 facilitate the consolidation of society;
 ensure an active life for elderly residents.

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Box 3: Vision of the Smart Moscow 2030 strategy

Smart Moscow 2030: Goals

 To use digital technologies for sustainable enhancement of citizens’ living standards
and favorable conditions for entrepreneurship and other activities
 To implement centralised, comprehensive and transparent city governance on the
basis of Big Data and Artificial intelligence technologies.
 To boost the efficiency of government expenses also through implementing public
and private partnership in information and digital technologies and
communications.

Box 4: Goals of the Smart Moscow 2030 strategy

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