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Foreword

This publication was developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities
(U4SSC) initiative.

Acknowledgements

The development of this deliverable was led and coordinated by Leonidas Anthopoulos (University
of Thessaly, Greece), with the support of Sofia T. Shwayri (Independent Scholar) who contributed
the case on Seoul, South Korea and its response to the pandemic.

The author would like to extend their sincere gratitude to all the case authors who devoted
substantial efforts in drafting the case studies. Parts of this document were supported by the
development of an MSc Thesis by Ms V. Tegou at the Postgraduate Programme in Project and
Programme Management, University of Thessaly, Greece, entitled “Smart city projects and pandemic
conditions: How do cities respond and how can a biometric surveillance be avoided?”, supervised
by the author of this document.

The author would like to thank Ramón Ferri Tormo (Oficina de Ciudad Inteligente, City of València);
Ángel Gómez (City of València); Andres Roman (SONY); Ashwini Sathnur (United Nations
Development Programme, India); Vimal Wakhlu (ITU-APT Foundation of India); Catherine Bodeau-
Péan (ONYAX, France); and Amali De Silva-Mitchell (UK) for their inputs to the discussion along
with relevant feedback and/or review.

The author wishes to thank the U4SSC management team: Nasser Al Marzouqi (U4SSC Chairman),
Katrina Naut, Abdurahman M. Al Hassan, Paolo Gemma, Tania Marcos and Giampiero Bambagioni
(U4SSC Vice-Chairmen) for their assistance and contributions.

The authors also extend their gratitude to the contributing organizations along with their
representatives: Oliver Hillel from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Lucy Winchester
and Vera Kiss from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC),
Simone Borelli from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cristina Bueti and Mythili
Menon (ITU), Iryna Usava from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James
Murombedzi from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Guilherme
Canela from the Regional Bureau for Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Martina Otto and Sharon Gil
from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Matthew Ulterino from the United Nations
Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), Motsomi Maletjane from the United Nations
Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), Andre Dzikus, Tania Lim, Jean Yves and
Robert Lewis-Lettington from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat),

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