ITU is improving ICT reliability, security and interoperability for smart sustainable cities and communities and advocates for the use of ICTs in reducing energy consumption and in enhancing services and quality of life for city dwellers.
66 per cent of the population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050 – and cities are reimagining how resources and services are to be managed and delivered. ITU is driving towards smart sustainable cities and communities that are sustainable, resilient, safe and inclusive as well as being digitally capable. A sophisticated ICT infrastructure is needed to underwrite the smart city’s ecosystem – one that supports human values.
To this end, ITU is helping to build the foundations for future-facing cities across a range of activities:
- ITU has developed standards focusing on IoT technologies and IoT applications in smart cities and communities.
- ITU, with partners, is organizing webinars on ‘Digital transformation for cities and communities’ to increase collaboration with city stakeholders and bring new thinking to the standards discussion.
- ITU takes part in United 4 Smart Sustainable Cities (US4CC) – the initiative proposes international key performance indicators, implemented by more than 150 cities and published Digital solutions for integrated city management and use cases.
- ITU organized:
- The 9th Green Standards week, bringing together policy-makers, field experts, city planners, regulators, standards experts, civil societies to discuss how ICTs facilitate smart governance and smart sustainable cities.
- The 1st Digital African Week (2019) which explored smart and sustainable cities, frontier technologies, EMFs and the circular economy.