Page 9 - U4SSC Case study Daegu, Korea (Republic of), February 2022

Foreword

The preparation of Daegu’s vision for its future as a Smart Sustainable
City began in 2014 with a citizen roundtable followed by an expert
roundtable in 2015. Daegu’s “Future Vision 2030” established in 2016
highlights the city’s resolve to ensure that industrial growth works in
service of citizen happiness.

Citizens have always been at the centre of Daegu’s smart city strategy.
This is exactly the approach advocated for by ITU, and I would like to
highlight my appreciation for Daegu’s will to share its experience on
the international stage.

Learning from experience is one of the main objectives of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities
(U4SSC) initiative, experience that provides key guidance to the international standardization work
of ITU-T Study Group 20 (Internet of Things and Smart Cities and Communities).

Daegu is the first city in Korea to evaluate its progress towards smart city objectives and the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the U4SSC Key Performance Indicators for
Smart Sustainable Cities based on the ITU standard Y.4903.

U4SSC is supported by 17 United Nations partners committed to the achievement of SDG11 to
“make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”.

The collaboration driven by U4SSC has helped more than 150 cities around the world to adopt Key
Performance Indicators that not only support cities’ self-evaluations but also provide a common
format for cities to share these evaluations with other cities working to accelerate progress towards
the SDGs.

Alongside the value of this empirical knowledge to other cities, this reporting also assists cities in
soliciting feedback that contributes to their continuous efforts to refine smart city strategies.

I would like to thank all contributors to this Daegu case study for your support to global efforts to
accelerate the digital transformation of cities and communities. This case study is certain to serve
as a valuable point of reference to other cities around the world, as well as a source of inspiration
for people-oriented approaches to the development of Smart Sustainable Cities.

Chaesub Lee
Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

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