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United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC)

United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) is a UN initiative coordinated by ITU, UNECE and
UN- Habitat, and supported by CBD, ECLAC, FAO, UNDP, UNECA, UNOPS, UNESCO, UNEP, UNEP-
FI, UNFCCC, UNIDO, UNU-EGOV, UN-Women and WMO to achieve Sustainable Development
Goal 11: ‘Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’.

U4SSC advocates public policy to encourage the use of digital technologies toward facilitating
and easing the transition to smart sustainable cities (SSC) by catapulting key successful smart city
measures into the spotlight for consideration.

It is currently working on five thematic groups:

• City Platforms

• Economic recovery in cities and urban resilience building in the time of COVID-19
• Innovative Financing Instruments for Smart Sustainable Cities

• Guiding principles for artificial intelligence in cities

• Procurement Guidelines for Smart Sustainable Cities

To find out more on the U4SSC initiative, visit: itu .int/ go/ u4ssc.

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.

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