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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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