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Bizerte: Key Findings from across the KPIs

• To further optimize a smart, sustainable ICT infrastructure, Bizerte should engage with more
developed cities and explore their experiences to determine how to implement ICTs and positively
impact inhabitants’ lives. Bizerte could also utilize Recommendation ITU-T L.1601: ‘KPIs related to
the use of ICT in smart sustainable cities’ and Recommendation ITU-T Y.4902/L.1602: ‘KPIs related to
the sustainability impacts of ICT in smart sustainable cities’. Also useful are ITU-T L.1400: ‘Overview
and general principles of methodologies for assessing the environmental impact of ICTs’ and ITU-T
L.1440: ‘Methodology for environmental impact assessment of ICTs at city level’, amongst others.

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• Bizerte underperforms in terms of public sector KPIs, in areas such as developing and making key
data sets available online, helping transparency, processing public sector procurement electronically
and introducing electronic delivery of public services. It is recommended that Bizerte develops
key data sets and makes them available publicly online and starts processing procurement and
delivering public services electronically.

• To foster innovation, utilize community resources and drive economic growth, Bizerte could work
on developing its ICT sector in order to create and retain a larger smart workforce locally. Providing
SMEs access to sources of finance and funding, supporting youth-centred innovation and enabling
technological advancement across its SMEs landscape will be important for Bizerte’s economic
future.
• The city could lower its rate of non-revenue water through the employment of best-practice
water-loss accounting methods and policies that mandate the conservation of the city’s water
resources. Increasing the number of smart water meters, and recording and reporting data on the
implementation of ICTs to monitor its water distribution systems, will also help the city to plan for
greater water supply efficiencies.
• Bizerte's electrical supply management is on its way to becoming effective, but there is some
interruption and no reported use of ICTs to monitor the electrical supply systems. The city could
also consider rolling out the installation of more smart electricity meters in homes and buildings,
and research the benefits and feasibility of implementing demand-response and energy-storage
capability to achieve agile and responsive energy supply management in the future.

• The city could investigate the use of sustainability certification programmes for on-going building
operations. Bizerte could consider implementing Recommendation ITU-T L.1370 ‘Sustainable and
Intelligent Building Services’, and contributing to the development of draft Recommendation ITU-T
L.SP_OB ‘A methodology for improving, assessing and scoring the sustainability performance of
office buildings’.

• Accessibility to the public transport network in Bizerte could be further enhanced. The city could
also encourage vehicle-sharing services and carpool programmes as alternatives, along with

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