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Category: Education

Performance to
Category KPI Result SDG
Benchmark

Student ICT Access 79.58 %

School Enrolment 92.71 %

Higher Education
Degrees (per 100 000 13 270
inhabitants)

Adult Literacy 93.34 %

The ultimate goal of all smart city efforts and aspirations is to increase quality of life and ensure
(economic) prosperity for all. The residents of a city or community play a crucial role in creating
and implementing the right processes and solutions. Technology and data are key enablers, but
without the smartness of people proper engagement will not be achieved. Therefore, one of the
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key functions to enable a smart, sustainable city is for the population to have the requisite skills
and training to develop and enable smart city applications and to be able to interact competently
with the resulting programmes; and Mashhad understands this with its slogan ‘Smart City, Smart
Citizen’ .
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Keeping this focus on smart citizens in view, these KPIs show that Mashhad has the capacity to
further develop these smart citizens, by increasing school enrolment at all levels, and increasing
ICT access in schools.

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