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Implementing ITU-T International Standards to shape Smart Sustainable Cities - The case of Moscow

special mention from the World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments
(WeGO) in the category of e-government services, and in February 2017, the Intelligent
Community Forum ranked Moscow among the top seven finalists in the most intelligent city
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contest.
2.2. Moscow’s smart and sustainable strategy

Moscow’s path to becoming a leading smart sustainable city started in 2011 after its current
Mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, took office. The overall city development strategy underwent a
number of major changes under Mayor Sobyanin. One of these changes was the digitalization
of all city functions that would see most of the public services being delivered via digital
platforms.

To achieve this, the Moscow City Government has centralized the city’s technical and digital
development within one department, the Department of Information Technology (IT), more
commonly referred to as the IT Department (see Figure 4). This department was authorized to
improve IT procurement proactively across all areas in Moscow, with the mandate to establish
cost-efficient IT procurement practices within the city. The IT Department was also tasked with
ensuring the interoperability of various city systems, and leveraging the potential of big data in
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delivering insights that would drive decision making.

Figure 4: Structure of the Moscow Department of Information Technology

16 https://www.mos.ru/en/city/projects/smartcity/
17 Kuznetsov (2017)

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