416 ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications Box 6 – Example of an open data platform from the City of Leeds UK Other options exist for sharing information such as direct posting of databases on a website [b‐21]. This was done on a low budget with the aim of releasing public information rapidly at low cost. The aim is to ensure that all of our data sets meet quality assurance standards and where possible gain ODI certification [b‐22]. The files are mostly in .csv spreadsheet format. So far 140 datasets have been published along with 82 downloadable APIs and community initiatives. Box 7 – Example of open data format \"Proper database management, analytics and sharing of information can help increasing coordination between stakeholders. For sharing of files, .csv or .json format can be used because they are very fast to process, easy to manipulate and consume lesser memory. For the databases, eventually consistent non‐relational databases can be considered because of their speed advantages\" [b‐23]. All the information of the facilities can be collected and converged to a holistic platform such as a city level integrated management system [b‐25]. With integrated management for smart sustainable city, the sensors, and sensing networks can function in an organized way to detect various infrastructure. As a result, emergency events can be rapidly discovered and acquired. Then the services for information resource publishing and sharing as well as result fusing are provided to disseminate information across the concerned agencies. Thus the goal is achieved to make the city smarter and more sustainable. . Box 5 – Example of an open platform from the EU An example of an Open Platform for Application Program Interfaces (APIs) is FIWARE [b‐20] which was funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme, which is a 100M Euro R&D Programme which seeks to provide an open, public and royalty‐free managed service architecture for smart cities. This offers a set of open APIs that allow developers to avoid getting tied to any specific vendor, therefore protecting application developers' investments. The FIWARE platform provides a rather simple yet powerful set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that ease the development of Smart Applications in multiple vertical sectors. The specifications of these APIs are public and royalty‐free. Besides, an open source reference implementation of each of the FIWARE components is publicly available so that multiple FIWARE providers can emerge faster in the market with a low‐cost proposition. FIWARE Lab is a non‐commercial sandbox environment where innovation and experimentation based on FIWARE technologies take place. Entrepreneurs and individuals can test the technology as well as their applications on FIWARE Lab, exploiting Open Data published by cities and other organizations. FIWARE Lab is deployed over a geographically distributed network of federated nodes leveraging on a wide range of experimental infrastructures. Could FIWARE meet your requirements for an open application platform for SSCs?