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Conclusion

This has been the first year of Bizerte’s working relationship with ITU on this project that is designed, in
part, to continue the evaluation of the feasibility of the U4SSC KPIs for SSC. The following conclusions
have been reached based on Bizerte’s experience thus far in its U4SSC smart sustainable journey:

• As a part of the U4SSC KPIs refinement process, ITU undertook a two-part approach to the indicators
by preparing a basic set of core indicators that can be reported easily by most cities, along with a
list of advanced indicators. The advanced indicators can be reported by cities that have attained
good scores on the basic indicators. Bizerte successfully reported 89 per cent of all basic U4SSC
indicators and 83 per cent of all advanced indicators as well.

• It is expected that the key findings from Bizerte's experience will also help towards improving the
existing definitions of the U4SSC KPIs, in order to enable a smoother data collection process for
Bizerte and, potentially, other Tunisian cities in the future.
• Bizerte should build on its first year of reporting the U4SSC KPIs by instituting the mechanisms and
through further development of capabilities to quantify, measure, collect and report data relevant
to the remaining KPIs not reported in its first year. Bizerte should also adopt the numerous high-level
recommendations contained in this report to its specific context, and report data in subsequent
years after the implementation of recommended measures. Doing so will also allow for year-over-
year progress benchmarking and analytics.

• Bizerte should work closely with other cities in the region on its SSC efforts, in order to leverage any
best practices and their shared experiences with developing and instituting smart and sustainable
policies and initiatives in the region. Regular knowledge sharing and discussions with ITU members
and other international cities are also encouraged.
• Bizerte and its fellow aspiring smart sustainable cities should implement the recommendations and
best practices mentioned in this Factsheet to improve the applicability of the KPIs across their cities/
regions and accelerate the achievement of their SSC goals in line with international instruments
(such as the Paris Agreement, Connect 2030 Agenda, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and
the New Urban Agenda).
• The vital knowledge gained through Bizerte’s experience in implementing the U4SSC KPIs will
continue to be a part of ongoing efforts to make not only the U4SSC KPIs, but also U4SSC’s upcoming
Smart Sustainable Cities Index the most effective methods to measure progress and to provide
guidance to cities around the world on their journey to becoming smarter and more sustainable.

• Bizerte’s reported KPIs will also feed into ITU’s new maturity model. The Recommendation ITU-T
Y.4904: ‘Smart Sustainable City Maturity Model (SSC-MM)’ is an additional tool to not only set and
measure performance levels of each KPI by Bizerte and other cities, but to also measure the progress
of other key dimensions for the development of an SSC, including strategy, ICT infrastructure, data,
services and applications and assessments, as further detailed in the box below.

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