Page 21 - Policy benchmarks for digital transformation of people-centred cities

Policy Benchmarks are following the broad categories (based on significant previous examples of
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policy assessments from the UN Habitat as well as the G20 and WEF co-authored Policy Benchmark
for Ethical and Responsible Smart Cities Development):
• People Centricity leading to urban resilience applying digital society factors

• Institutional Mechanism: Public interest, digital governance, participation
• Digitalization: Technology, Data trust and data exchange, sovereignty, infrastructure

• Society: Impacts on Social cohesion, development and quality of life

• Sustainability/ESG: Development of futureproof sustainable strategies and audits that will lead
to mitigation and adaptation of climate change related impacts, accomplishing SDGs

• Economy: development of an economy that creating benefits for people and organizations

Those categories need to deliver on the objectives of a people centric sustainable digitalization
of cities according to the UN Habitat and New Urban Agenda:

Objective 1: Equity and Human Rights
Objective 2: Inclusion and Participation
Objective 3: Sustainability and Net Zero
The following picture shows the core objectives of people centric cities and the respective
assessment criteria that define the maturity levels of policies.

Figure 6: Objectives of Policies and the Maturity Assessment Criteria

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