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Figure 60: ICT Strategic Formulation

Situational analysis
Context and Current
Diagnosis
Good practices City Platforms

Smart City office
Technological
leadership
ICT governance IT processes
IT procedures
ICT Strategic Formulation

Infrastructures

City Telecom People
Ecosystem

IoT
Reference
technological
architecture
Value Apps for Citizen

City IT Ecosystem Core IT components

Business & Application
Components

Evolution Plans

ICT Evolution Areas of action
Migration Plans

The connectivity of a smart community has been discussed in Chapter 5, where different solutions
that may be of interest to the city in the field of personal communications, infrastructures and IoT
devices are discussed. At this point, availability, costs, coverage and the regulatory environment
play a major role.

The design and operation of a private, convergent communications network (municipal corporate
network) together with virtual private network services offered by telecommunications operators,
offers, in the medium-term, lower operating, administration and maintenance costs in addition to
the essential security needs in an SSC environment.

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