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1 Motivation
ITU-T Study Group 20 focuses on developing guidelines, methodologies and best practices related to standards to help cities, communities, and rural areas deliver services using relevant emerging technologies, including edge computing, metaverse, blockchain, trusted computing, digital twins, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data processing and analytics, orchestration and automation technologies with advanced sensing and actuation technologies, also known as smart sustainable cities and communities (SSC&C).
The service/sector offerings of SSC&C, including smart education, smart hospital, smart farming, traffic awareness, environmental protection, smart manufacturing, new energy vehicles, digital power infrastructure, energy storage business, charging business, etc., realize user-centric goals.
Given the diverse uses and types of technologies for municipal governments to create SSC&C, it is useful to undertake further studies on how municipal governments can deploy SSC&C technologies to make better-informed decisions, to effectively integrate and deliver better digital services, and to encourage comprehensive strategies to implement SSC&C principles and goals.
One of the ways to assist municipal governments in adopting SSC&C technologies is through quantitative and qualitative assessments. The use of key performance indicators (KPIs), for instance, can help measure the implementation and success of SSC&C technologies and goals.
2 Question
Study items include, but are not limited to:
- General principles that could be used to establish methodologies to assess the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as well as the impact of ICT on city smartness and sustainability.
- Smart Sustainable Cities Index for worldwide use across countries and regions.
- Usefulness of different methodologies (measurement, statistics sampling, case studies, best practices, etc.) with respect to different countries and regions.
- Best methods for assessing the collection, sharing, processing, and analysis of reliable data, accounting for the evolution of that data over time.
- How to assess the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a smart sustainable city?
- How to assess the interworking and integration capabilities of smart sustainable city systems and platforms?
- How to evaluate and assess the use of relevant emerging technologies such as edge computing, metaverse, blockchain, trusted computing, digital twins, AI/ML, data processing and analytics, orchestration and automation technologies with advanced sensing and actuation technologies, among others, in SSC&C?
- How to evaluate and assess human-centricity and quality of human life aspects in the use of Internet of Things (IoT) and SSC&C technologies?
- How to measure and evaluate a city's specific performance and digital services with respect to defined sector (or vertical) indicators such as open data indicators, e-health indicators, utilities indicators, etc.
- How to assess city resilience and robustness?
3 Tasks
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Developing Recommendations, reports, guidelines, etc., as appropriate, on:
" methodologies, general principles, and criteria for cities/communities to collect and analyse data for the evaluation and assessment of SSC&C technologies;
" methodologies, general principles, and criteria for cities/communities to assess their current service/sector offerings, implement relevant SSC&C technologies including edge computing, metaverse, blockchain, trusted computing, digital twins, AI, ML, data processing and analytics, orchestration and automation technologies with advanced sensing and actuation technologies, among others, and measure their impact on a local level;
" methodologies, general principles, and criteria for cities/communities to assess their current service/sector offerings, implement relevant SSC&C technologies including edge computing, metaverse, blockchain, trusted computing, digital twins, AI, ML, data processing and analytics, orchestration and automation technologies with advanced sensing and actuation technologies, among others, and measure their impact on the UN SDGs;
" methodologies, general principles, and criteria for cities/communities to assess their performance, resilience and robustness.
- Reporting on the Global Smart Sustainable Cities Index.
- Providing the necessary collaboration for joint activities in this field within ITU and between ITU-T and SDOs, UN agencies, consortia and forums.
An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the SG20 work programme (https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_search.aspx?sp=18&q=7/20).
4 Relationships
Recommendations:
- All the pertinent Y.4000 series Recommendations and Y-series Supplements
Questions:
- All Questions of ITU-T SG20
Study groups:
- ITU-T, ITU-D and ITU-R study groups, as appropriate
Other bodies:
- IETF
- Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- IEEE
- ATIS
- ETSI TC Smart M2M
- CCSA TC10
- oneM2M
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC41, ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG11
- Joint IEC-ISO-ITU Smart Cities Task Force
- GSMA
- 3GPP/3GPP2
- W3C
- Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)
- Object Management Group (OMG)
- Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)
- Alliance of Industrial Internet (AII)
- Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation (AIOTI)
- Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF)
WSIS Action Lines:
- C2, C3, C6, C7, C8, C10, C11
Sustainable Development Goals:
- 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13
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