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

Conclusion

Moscow served as an ideal testing partner for the implementation of the KPIs developed by the
U4SSC for Smart Sustainable Cities, given the city’s defined Information City and Smart Moscow
2030 strategies to transition into a fully smart and sustainable city in the coming years. Through
the lens of its Information City vision, Moscow has its citizens living, working, playing and
interacting.

Figure 38: City of Moscow during daytime

This is the first year of Moscow’s close working relationship with ITU on this project designed, in
part, to continue the evaluation of the feasibility of the U4SSC KPIs. It comes at a pivotal moment
in the city’s history as a smart sustainable city, as the current Information City strategy is set to
make way for the new Smart Moscow 2030 from the beginning of 2019. This venture is,
therefore, timely for Moscow’s continuing development and refinement of the new strategy,
and is expected to make a valuable contribution to this.
The following conclusions (subject to change) have been derived based on Moscow’s
experience:
 As a part of the U4SSC KPIs refinement process, ITU undertook a two-part approach to
the indicators by preparing a basic set of core KPIs that can be reported easily by most
cities, along with a list of advanced KPIs. The advanced KPIs can normally only be
reported by cities with more advanced programmes related to smartness and
sustainability. The ability of Moscow to report on most advanced KPIs shows that the
city is in an advanced stage of development towards becoming smarter and more
sustainable.
 Moscow has concluded all three phases of the project. The Smart City Lab in Moscow
has provided valuable feedback on the U4SSC KPIs and proposed three potentially new
KPIs to be added to the set (See Section 5.6). These would improve the usability and
applicability of the U4SSC KPIs by better reflecting the different facets of
the participating city and by improving the city profile generated through reporting the
KPIs. This will benefit Moscow and potentially other cities in Russia and CIS countries in
the future.

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