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Enabling digital transformation in smart sustainable cities – Master plan

1 Building a master plan: towards digital transformation in the

smart sustainable city

Recent experiences aimed at the design and realization of an SSC have shown that there is no
single approach to make a city smarter and more sustainable. Each city constitutes a unique
system, wherein different actors and city agencies undertake a range of activities, interact
on multiple scales, and use different facilities infrastructures and technologies. Recognizing
the particular environmental, technological and societal contexts of the "city", its purposes
and priorities for action, as well as its history and characteristics, has become crucial not only
to ensure the most appropriate path towards becoming smart and sustainable but also to
determine it.

The smart city management plan elucidated in this report will aim to support cities in:
• driving cross-sectoral digital transformation by promoting the adoption of emerging
technologies;
• enhancing the efficiency of urban services;
• improving quality of life for all inhabitants in the city;
• addressing societal, environmental and economic urban challenges; and
• improving the resilience of the smart city ecosystem to emergencies.

Urban stakeholders need to prepare strategic plans as frameworks for the implementation of
SSC initiatives, initiate digital transformation to optimize urban services and tailor them towards
inhabitants.

Figure 1: Digital Transformation in the context of Smart Cities

The SSC master plan presented in Figure 2 provides an overview of the key components and
stages involved in the process of digital transformation.

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