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• Valencia 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 Valencia’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 sustainable.
            • Valencia’s reported KPIs will also feed into ITU’s new maturity model.  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 Valencia and other cities, but to also measure the
                progress of other key dimensions for  the development of a SSC including strategy, ICT infrastructure,
                data, services and applications and assessments, as further detailed in the box below.




                Smart Sustainable City Maturity Model

                The Smart Sustainable City Maturity Model (SSC-MM) defines five levels of maturity in the
                process of becoming a smart and sustainable city with each level achieved being a higher level
                of maturity. The requirement to reach the intended maturity level is to achieve the target KPI
                values set for each maturity level.

                As an example, for KPI Household Internet Access, a level 1 maturity level could be to collect
                the initial benchmark data. The further four levels could then be set as performance levels
                such as level 2 achieved at 30% access, level 3 at 50% access, level 4 at 70% access and level 5
                at 90% access.

                This can then be overlaid with maturity level performance for the other dimensions to provide
                insight into the issues that need to be addressed within each city to become smarter and
                more sustainable.


                 Valencia and other cities are encouraged to use Recommendation ITU-T Y.4904 as a framework
                to determine their interim target values for KPIs by taking into consideration their priorities,
                constraints, resources and optimal KPI performance levels. The SSC-MM is another tool that
                can be used to communicate progress to stakeholders, to help them develop an SSC strategy
                to encourage the effective use of ICTs.




            More information on the SDGs, the U4SSC initiative and the U4SSC Smart Sustainable Cities Index can
            be found in the Appendix.

            At this time, the ITU would like to invite cities around the world to implement the U4SSC KPIs for
            SSC. Using the U4SSC KPI definitions and data-collection methodologies, all cities will be in a better




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