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Enabling digital transformation in smart sustainable cities – Master plan

series of Recommendations and Supplements including: Recommendations ITU-T Y.4900, ITU-T
Y.4901, ITU-T Y.4902, ITU-T Y.4903 and ITU-T Y-Sup.78.

These documents describe standardized KPIs that aim to provide criteria to evaluate existing
cities (e.g., single cities from the administrative point of view, or the union of small cities in
the same area that share some services), but not to compare them. It will enable cities and
municipal administrations to understand the progress of SSC development and design suitable
strategies, and will also provide city residents with the details of the SSC development, and
allow SSC development and operational organizations to fulfil their obligations related to the
provision of information.

Furthermore, United for Smart Sustainable Cities has developed a series of KPIs based on
Recommendation ITU-T Y.4903 "Key performance indicators for smart sustainable cities to assess
the achievement of sustainable development goals". These indicators have been established
to support the collection and reporting of the data needed to quantify, measure, report, and
monitor performance and progress towards achieving the targets enshrined in the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).

The evaluation principles chosen to define dimensions, sub-dimensions, categories and indicators
are the following: comprehensiveness (i.e., should cover all SSC aspects), comparability (i.e.,
should be able to compare scientifically different phases of urban development and different
cities), availability (i.e., quantitative data should be accessible and scientific), independence
(i.e., the indicators in the same dimension should be mutually independent), simplicity (i.e.,
concepts and calculation should be simple and intuitive) and timeliness (i.e., ability to produce
KPIs with respect to emerging issues in SSC construction).

The dimensions of KPIs can be categorized as follows:

• Economy.
• Environment.
• Society and Culture.
Using the evaluation principles previously explained, the KPIs of an SSC can be categorized
into three dimensions, each with its respective sub-dimensions, categories and indicators (see
Table 1).

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