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Turning digital technology innovation into climate action

Each of these case studies highlights the achievement of the participating cities in the areas of ICT
proliferation and sustainable development.

In addition, the results gathered from the U4SSC KPIs for SSC are being utilized to develop ITU’s
Global Smart Sustainable Cities Index, which will be the first international set of coherent metrics on
measuring the progress of smart sustainable cities. The purpose of the Index is to benchmark the
cities’ contributions to sustainability and smartness, as well as their ongoing efforts and progress
towards implementing the SDGs. It is expected to be a highly useful tool for cities to further their
smart strategies and ambitions, and work is being done to finalize it by later this year.

Box 7: ITU-T Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) case studies

Left: The case study ‘Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable
Cities: The Case of Dubai’ details Dubai’s ambitious and trailblazing journey towards becoming
a smart city, a venture worthy of emulation by other aspiring smart cities around the world.

Middle: The case study ‘Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart
Sustainable Cities: The Case of Singapore’ details Singapore’s journey towards becoming
a smart sustainable city. This case study provides a valuable reference point to other cities
pursuing smart city strategies. It also offers valuable guidance to ITU standards developers
who are responsible for the refinement of SSC’s KPIs.

Right: The case study ‘Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart
Sustainable Cities: The case of Moscow’ offers practical insights into the experiences of
Moscow in transforming into a smart sustainable city using the KPIs developed by the
United for Smart Sustainable Cities initiative (U4SSC), which are based on ITU-T KPIs for SSC
Standards. It measures Moscow’s progress in reaching the objectives of its smart strategies
and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. The results of this case study provide
valuable lessons to other aspiring Smart Sustainable Cities.

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