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Singapore joins trial of ITU key performance indicators for smart
sustainable cities
Trial of indicators to assist development of global smart sustainable city
index
Budapest, 13 October 2015 – Singapore has joined a two-year
pilot project to evaluate the feasibility of ITU’s key performance indicators
for smart sustainable cities. The pilot project will contribute to ITU’s
international standardization of the indicators and the subsequent development
of a ‘Global Smart Sustainable Cities Index’ derived from this set of
indicators.
Singapore’s ‘Smart Nation’ vision aims to enrich citizens’ lives by
capitalizing on the potential of information and communication technology (ICT)
to improve environmental sustainability, resilience, and equitable social and
economic growth.
The collaboration between Singapore and ITU is part of ITU’s efforts to
encourage the adoption of master plans for sustainable urban development by city
administrations. The key performance indicators focus on the elements of a smart
city that rely on ICT, offering a measure of progress relevant to ICT aspects of
urban-development master plans.
“ITU is developing a standard means to measure the success of smart-city
strategies as one of the steps in achieving sustainable development,” said ITU
Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. “Singapore, one of the most connected cities in
the world, champions the use of ICTs to improve economic efficiency as well as
the happiness and safety of its citizens, making the city state an excellent
ally in promoting the value of ICTs in improving quality of life in our cities.”
“Singapore is an ideal testbed for ITU’s key performance indicators for smart
sustainable cities as the city state is making good progress in its Smart Nation
initiative,” said Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau. “ITU is pleased to support the aspirations of
Singapore’s Smart Nation vision, and we value the support that Singapore has
offered to ITU’s planned development of a Global Smart Sustainable Cities
Index.”
“Singapore is delighted to participate in this pilot exercise by ITU to trial
smart cities’ indicators and develop a global smart cities index. This is an
excellent opportunity for IDA to share Singapore’s experience and learn from the
other participating cities. Singapore’s Smart Nation journey is not just a
process of building infrastructure, but is more importantly about improving
lives of citizens and enhancing our economy by being a Smart Nation,” said Leong
Keng Thai, Deputy Chief Executive of the Infocomm Development Authority of
Singapore (IDA).
The agreement between ITU and Singapore was signed today at a ceremony held
in conjunction with ITU Telecom
World 2015 in session in Budapest, Hungary, 12-15 October.
The pilot project will test and verify the key performance indicators as a
contribution to their international standardization by
ITU-T
Study Group 5 (Environment and climate change). Singapore and Dubai
are the first two cities to join the pilot exercise, and ITU expects other
cities to follow suit.
The results of the pilot project are also expected to assist the
standardization work of the new
ITU-T
Study Group 20 (Internet of Things and its applications including smart cities
and communities). The first meeting of ITU-T Study Group 20 is
scheduled for 19-23 October 2015 at ITU Headquarters in Geneva.
The key performance indicators were developed by an
ITU-T Focus Group which offered an open platform to
identify the standardization requirements of smart sustainable cities. The group
concluded its activities in May with the release of twenty-one technical reports
and specifications. The reports and specifications, in addition to key
performance indicators, detail the requirements of smart sustainable cities in
areas spanning from the management of electromagnetic fields to smart water
management, climate change mitigation and adaptation, intelligent buildings,
open data, and cybersecurity and data protection.
For more information, please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information, ITU
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