ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications 19 Table 3 – Core pillars of a smart sustainable city Economy Governance Environment Society Employment GDP Market – Global/Local Viability Investment PPP Value chain Risk Productivity Innovation Compensation Regulatory Compliance Processes Structure Authority Transparency Communication Dialogue Policies Standards Citizen services Sustainable Renewable Land use Biodiversity Water/Air Waste Workplace People Culture Social networks Tech Savvy Demographics Quality of life User experiences Equal access End consumers Community needs The city as a database 3 ICT, infrastructure and disasters in SSC The essential duty of a city is to facilitate the health, safety and security of its citizens. Cities may face various problems like increasing population, unprecedented weather manifestations, natural disasters, unemployment, unique geography, poverty, crime, and other social problems that pose a serious threat to the stable functioning of the city. Governments are using technological innovations to make a paradigm‐shift to tackle the above challenges in urban environments. As a result, an increasing amount of data is collected and brought together at various levels to enable police officials to provide better security, doctors and health care professionals to enhance health care treatments, and inform governmental officials to solve social problems more effectively. 'Smart' can be defined as an implicit or explicit ambition of a city to improve its economic, social and environmental standards27. The concept of smartness in terms of performance is highly relevant to technologically implementable solutions. In many cases, if there is some form of ICT, which is present in a city, the city or its activity is considered \"smart\". ICT devices and services are only an enabler or purveyor which allows the “smartness” to percolate throughout a system. Just by having a personal computer (PC) or smart phone does not define \"smartness\" or intelligence. Specifically, the International Organization for Standardizations (ISO)28 has recently released a report (ISO/TR 37150:2014) entitled: “Smart community infrastructures – Review of existing activities relevant to metrics”. ____________________ 27 http://www.pleecproject.eu/downloads/Reports/Smart%20City%20Profiles/pleec_ d2_ 1_ smart_ city_ profiles_ introduction.pdf 28 ISO/TR 37150:2014 \"Smart community infrastructures – Review of existing activities relevant to metrics.\" http://www.iso.org/iso/executive_ summary_ iso_ 37150.pdf