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with the business community and city residents for the first time. People-friendliness is the main
principle of the Smart City project. People should take part in running and developing the city at
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every level.”

3. Piloting the U4SSC KPIs for SSC: The case of Moscow

3.1. Background

In 2018, Moscow began to work closely with ITU on piloting the feasibility of the U4SSC KPIs for
Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC). Moscow is one of many cities around the world that is assessing
the efficiency and sustainability of its urban services using these KPIs developed by the U4SSC.

As noted by Chaesub Lee, Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau at ITU:

Our world is very diverse, in language, culture, climate and levels of economic
development. Cities face different urban-development challenges, with the result that
the priorities of their smart city strategies will often differ significantly. The U4SSC Key
Performance Indicators offer cities a tool for self-assessment. They enable cities to assess
the degree to which their smart city strategies are achieving their objectives. They
provide a common format to report the progress of strategies that may differ
significantly. This Moscow case study will share valuable insight into how Moscow’s
smart city strategy addresses the challenges unique to Moscow’s context.

Similarly, Andrey Belozerov, Strategy and Innovations Advisor to the CIO of Moscow remarked:

“The city of Moscow is developing at an exponential pace, which compels us to look
for new tracking and estimation tools to measure the city’s sustainability. The project
with ITU, especially the development this Case Study, is unique in that: it is a single
publication that provides a 360-degree analysis of the evolution of the whole city
while taking into consideration all the promising smart sustainable city projects in
Moscow from different areas.”

This project between Moscow and ITU seeks, in part, to test the applicability of these KPIs.
Successfully implementing them will lay the foundation for identifying the standardised
requirements of Smart Sustainable Cities. One of the most unique elements of the U4SSC KPIs
on SSC is that not only do they measure the degree of effectiveness of a city’s smart solutions,
they also illustrate a city’s progress in meeting the UN SDGs. These KPIs are capable of measuring
a city’s smartness against the targets set-forth in the SDGs. The results then allow policymakers
to make better and more informed decisions.
Similar to other reporting cities, Moscow relies on different government departments and
authorities to collect the necessary data to report on the different KPIs. The Smart City Lab acted
as the coordinating entity for this project and played a central role in collecting the required
data and providing valuable feedback.

The following sections highlight the three phases of implementing the U4SSC KPIs for SSC in
Moscow.

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