ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications 91 Ref. No. Category Definitions/Features Key concept/ Keywords Source 61 Government/ International organization A real smart city develops the city to reach the aim of improving the quality of life. It needs sound and innovative economic development as a means to reach this aim. Uses ICT as a tool with a great potential for ameliorating daily life, public services and the economy. Quality of life, innovative, economic, ICT, public services. Schweiker ‐ Council of European Municipalities (2010) 62 Academic Amsterdam Smart City uses innovative technology and the willingness to change behaviour related to energy consumption in order to tackle climate goals. Amsterdam Smart City is a universal approach for design and development of a sustainable, economically viable programme that will reduce the city's carbon footprint. Smart city, innovative, technology, energy, economically, carbon footprint. Lee et al. (2012) 63 Government/ International organization There are three major functions that \"ICT Smart Town\" is expected to contain. ICT to be used both in ordinary times and in times of disaster. ICT is used in order to contribute to self‐sustaining town development in ordinary times, while it functions for disaster prevention and mitigation in times of disaster. Users, mainly local citizens, can participate in the Smart Town community using the ICT system through user‐friendly and accessible interfaces such as mobile phones and TVs. New services resulting from the use of \"Big Data\", including the government‐held (public) data, private sector data and real‐time data, collected through sensors. Disaster, citizens, smart town, community, interfaces, government, real‐time data. Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (2013)