1. Building smart sustainable cities
Cristina Bueti​
Advisor, ITU

2. City: an holistic system
The winning paradigm:
economically compete
sustainably growth
Pictures; Shanghai, Mumbai, Goiânia, San Diego, Munich.
Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish architect, artist, and set designer of Polish Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. His portfolio also includes several residential projects. Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Bauhaus Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou. On February 27, 2003, Libeskind won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.
“Cities are the greatest creations of humanity” – Daniel Libeskind

3. Cities account for about two-thirds of global energy demand.
Buildings produce a fifth of the world’s CO2 emissions.
Cities produce up to 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Buildings account for roughly 40% of the world’s energy use.
An estimated 80% of global GDP is generated in cities. 3

4. From design to implementation
Every city has different needs: determining what products to demand and what policies to adopt;
Engaging all stakeholders: formalizing collaboration between technology and sustainability departments in any city agencies and between city agencies;
Funding: recognizing the appropriate scale to deploy technology investments;
Generating public support;
Assessing progress: developing technical standards to measure achievements.
Every city has different needs;
Engaging all stakeholders;
Find funds to scale-up innovation;
Generating public support;
Assessing progress.

5. Technology: turning traditional infrastructure into smart infrastructure
The role of ICT for:
Better data = better decisions
Intelligent infrastructure
Economic competitiveness
Green and sustainability
Low carbon businesses
Smart city technologies (based on wireless communications, sensor networks, data analytics, platforms and applications, cloud computing, technical standards) are being developed to address a range of issues, including energy management, water management, urban mobility, street lighting, and public safety, for example. These innovations are underpinned by general developments in areas such as wireless communications, sensor networks, data analytics, and cloud computing.
Social inclusiveness
Citizens’ engagement

6. Standardizing Monitoring Accounting Rethinking Transforming
Setting the vision for smart sustainable cities
Standardizing
Monitoring
Accounting
Rethinking
Transforming
Call to Action on Smart Sustainable Cities
Call to Action
Key priorities to boost the development of sustainable smart cities:
Mitigation to Climate Change & Reduction of the ICT Footprint in Cities
Energy Efficiency
Waste Management
Water Management
Adaptation to Climate Change and Urban Planning
Smart Architecture and Infrastructure
Smart Mobility
Suburban Areas
Community Engagement and Environmental Justice
Sustainable Cities

7. Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities
Established in 2013;
Lifetime extended to May 2015;
As an open platform for knowledge sharing for smart-city stakeholders;
Participation is open to all.
Next meeting to be held from 3 to 6 March 2015 in Reading, United Kingdom
Established at ITU-T Study Group 5 meeting in Geneva in February 2013.
Lifetime: one year from the first meeting held on 8 May Extended to May 2015.
As an open platform for smart-city stakeholders to exchange knowledge in the interests of identifying the standardized frameworks needed to support the integration of ICT services in smart cities.
Participation is open to all.

8. Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities
Agreed definition on SSC
Some 20 technical reports under development, including:
Guide for City Leaders
A Framework to the SSC
Five reports (overview, definition, smart water, EMF, KPIs) approved this week
Established at ITU-T Study Group 5 meeting in Geneva in February 2013.
Lifetime: one year from the first meeting held on 8 May Extended to May 2015.
As an open platform for smart-city stakeholders to exchange knowledge in the interests of identifying the standardized frameworks needed to support the integration of ICT services in smart cities.
Participation is open to all.

9. Building Smart Sustainable Cities
Framework on SCC;
Applicable to any city in the world;
Informed decision making processes.
5. Ensuring accountability and responsibility
4. Defining KPIs, standards and monitoring
The first stage entails setting the basis for a SSC, including the governance, leadership and citizen engagement required to move forward the SSC’s vision, and realize its strategy in the short, medium and long term. The early identification of inclusive stakeholder and citizen engagement mechanisms (to be implemented throughout the process) is seen as a key component of the SSC roadmap.
The second stage focuses on identifying the ICT infrastructure that can be used to increase the smartness and sustainability of the city, as well as the strategic planning required for the deployment (and integration) of ICT infrastructure at the national level. This includes mechanisms for municipalities to incentivize supply and demand of SSC infrastructure, as well as to access the necessary funding.
The third stage consists of the identification and promotion of SSC services that should be part of a city’s integrated planning, in order to address complex urban challenges. Key SSC services include smart waste management, smart energy management, smart transportation, smart waste management, smart healthcare, education, physical safety, smart building, as well as city services for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The fourth stage encompasses the development and implementation of ‘Key Performance Indicators’ (KPIs) in order to provide a basic set of criteria to evaluate existing cities and to measure the results of different projects, with the aim of increasing smartness and sustainability. The use of KPIs is critical to measure and to quantify efficiency improvements in city services that are improved or achieved through the implementation of SSC services.
The fifth stage of the Roadmap involves the development of a framework to protect the citizens living in a SSC. It includes the identification of data security needs, as well as electromagnetic fields (EMF) protection standards. The activities conducted as part of this stage will provide the basis of a SSC Security System, including the minimum requirements for its implementation, and the technologies that are needed to achieve it.
The starting point of the proposed Roadmap is the recognition that, while technology is an essential component of strategies to develop and implement SSC, cities are about people. Therefore, any strategy aimed at making urban systems smarter and more sustainable should be focused on ultimately improving the quality of life of the city’s inhabitants through novel, more efficient, and increasingly inclusive ICT-enabled approaches.
3. Identifying and developing smart city services
2. Developing smart infrastructure and integrated platform
1. Setting the basis

10. What a smart sustainable city is
First internally agreed definition: “A smart sustainable city is an innovative city that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social and environmental aspects”;
Setting the basis: define a SSC, identify attributes, priorities and stakeholders:
Defining a smart sustainable cities;
Identifying attributes and priorities of a SSC;
Engaging all stakeholders.
1. Setting the basis

11. Integrating ICT in cities
Developing smart infrastructure and integrated platform: identify key technical specifications for the integration of ICT into existing city’s infrastructure in order to improve the city’s sustainability and the quality of life of citizens, and to ensure economic growth
2. Developing smart infrastructure and integrated platform

12. Improving all city’s operations
Identifying and developing smart city services: identify ICT services that contribute to the efficiency of city services to improve in the efficiency of all aspects of a city’s operation:
Smart water management systems
Smart energy management systems
Smart transportation management systems
Smart waste management systems
Smart healthcare management
Smart education
Smart security
Smart building systems
3. Identifying and developing smart city services

13. You cannot manage what you cannot measure!
Key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess how the impact of ICT on the sustainability of cities.
Defining KPIs, standards and monitoring: enable cities and municipal administrations to understand the progress of SSC development and design suitable strategies
Developing a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess how the uses of ICTs has an impact on the sustainability of cities;
Understanding and sharing information on the progress of SSC with respect to ICT’s impact;
Developing a standardization framework for SSC.
4. Defining KPIs, standards and monitoring

14. 5. Ensuring accountability and responsibility
Protecting citizens
Protecting citizens in a new context of smartness and sustainability.
Ensuring accountability and responsibility (data security +EMF): protect citizens in the new context of smartness and sustainability
Protecting citizens in a new context of smartness and sustainability:
Data security, to protect the citizen data,
Electromagnetic fields (EMF), to address existing concerns of the public around this topic
5. Ensuring accountability and responsibility

15. Suggestions for policy makers
Strategic partnership and knowledge sharing
Measuring success
Technology access
Funding
Measuring success: need for suitable standardized measurement of progress of SSC to improve performance
Strategic partnership and knowledge sharing: foster interaction among all key stakeholders and promote expertise sharing
Technology access: bridge existing connectivity gaps and technological barriers
Environmental protection and sustainability: improve natural resources management
Funding: propose new business strategies by capitalizing on new economic growth
Raising awareness: engage all citizens
Environmental protection and sustainability
Raising awareness

16. Paving the way to smart sustainable cities
Leading with vision to foster the design and implementation of SSC;
Engaging key stakeholders;
Enabling a culture of innovation and collaboration.
Leading with vision to foster the design and implementation of SSC:
The role of international standards and policies is key to assess GHG emissions and energy consumption, move towards low-carbon, sustainable cities and foster adaptation and resilience to climate change;
International standards facilitate the integration of ICT into traditional infrastructure to turn it into smart infrastructure;
Standardized achievement can be multiplied worldwide across the whole industry.
Engaging key stakeholders (such as municipalities, policy makers, academic and research institutes, civil society, NGOs, SDOs, ICT organizations, industry forums and consortia, international and regional organizations):
Smart sustainable city should be seen as a “System of Systems;
City leaders to align strategies and develop comprehensive policies;
City leaders to partner effectively with all city sectors, as well as with other levels of governments, ICT industry, NGOs, Universities, etc.
Enabling a cultureITU as global platform for the empowerment of smart sustainable cities;
Importance of raising awareness on the role of ICT as enabler of urban transformation.
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17. Additional information THANK YOU! cristina.bueti@itu.int
ITU-T/SG5 “Environment & Climate Change” itu.int/go/tsg5
ITU-T and Climate Change itu.int/go/ITU-T/climate
THANK YOU!