ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications 201 Stakeholder Scale/ sector Aims and challenges Potential and constraints Role/contribution to SSC rollout ICT Companies Supralocal Private – Finding new fields for business development. – To provide services based on positive business cases. – Difficulties to access cities services contests to offer SSC projects that are still directed to vertical city services. – Lack of legal & commercial framework to provide SSC services. – Experience and expertise on transversal solutions and integration of services. – R+D departments with significant budgets. – Expertise in developing business models. – Lack of expertise in city management services. – Urgency to deploy ICT services due to customers' demands. – Provide the ICT infrastructure to support and integrate SSC services. It has to be standard, compatible and scalable. – Research and innovate to provide better technical solutions. – Develop innovative and financially sustainable business models to enable SSC implementations. NGOs Local & Supralocal – Ensuring social sustainability, inclusiveness and equity on a local and national level. – They do not have an active role in SSC solutions deployment. – With increasing urban populations, inequity, poverty and social strains are going to be increased in cities. – Experience on raising awareness of concerns of the population, on watching over the weakest sectors of society and developing initiatives. – Knowledge on social sustainability. – Impartiality and legitimacy to raise issues. – Limited resources: (economic, human...). – Limited power of influence on local, national and international agendas. – Give advice on how to achieve social sustainability. – Raise awareness of concerns of the population. – Ensure inclusiveness of all society in the SSC model.