Smart Sustainable
Cities in Asia and the
Pacific
Professor Isabelle Milbert
Graduate Institute
Geneva
15th December 2014
ITU Symposium on ICTs, Environment and
Climate Change
Kochi, India
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What is a Smart Sustainable City?
ITU Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities (FG-SSC)
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”. (ITU, 2014)
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Dimensions of a Smart
Sustainable City
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Different Components of SSC
 ICTs +
 Urban Environment
 Smart People
 Governance
 Mobility
 Economy
 Quality of life (QoL)
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ICTs
 = Strong Enablers for the development of cities
 Standard: connectivity etc..
 Specific: cloud computing etc…
 Smart applications
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Urban Environment
 ICTs will considerably improve management of infrastructure and
services:
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Energy
Air
Water
Transportation
Housing
Public Safety (specifically for women, children and senior citizens)
 And therefore will help reduce pressures on environment:
 adapt supply to demand
 reduce shortages
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Example: Elements of energy management
system in Yokohama, Japan
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Impact on environment
 Better knowledge and measurement of pollution
 Sensors enabling the monitoring of air, water quality,
public safety, etc…
 => Better dissemination of this information
 => Better public and private action / policies
 => better prevention of pollution inducing activities, preventing
crime
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Smart people
 Connected
 Educated
 Participative
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Governance and Citizenship
 Information
 Participation
 Interactivity
 Better response to citizens expectations
 Transparency in planning,management and implementation
 Clear policy objectives
 Some changes might just be revolutionary…
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Example.Computerizing land records
in India
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Enhanced Mobility of:
 People
 Ex. smart cars (improved connectivity)
 Public transportation (safer, better connected)
 Data (safe storage, safe transmission, privacy)
 Finance
 Goods
 Services
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Economy
 Considerable potential in terms of job creation,
increasing GDP
 Already creates green jobs
 Can reduce considerably some shortages and improve
forecasts and provision of goods
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Quality of life (QoL)
 Specific expectations from different interest groups:
 Youth
 High level professionals
 Others:
 Aged people?
 Women?
 Poor?
 Will SSCs pave the way for a substantial transformation
of the QoL of the urban population and other
communities?
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Quality of life
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In what ways can this new concept,
developed by ITU-T, Study Group 5 be
applied to Asian cities?
 Assets
 Challenges
 Opportunities
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Issues at stake
 Varying realities, progressive stages
 Implementation in new towns or existing cities?
 In small towns or metros?
 With public or private investment?
 Which complementary investments from the
infrastructure services should be utilized?
 Origin of the technology?
 What kind of cooperation has been established?
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Songdo, South Korea
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ITU Report on SSC in the Asia Pacific
Region, 2015
Objective: to take your comments into account
 To involve Indian stakeholders and work together
 To help the report to be a baseline for future policies
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR
KIND ATTENTION!!
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Images sources
 Associated Press
 http://www.maps.meshcities.com/reports/view/63
 https://greeningit.wordpress.com/
 www.bbc.com
 www.city.yokohama.lg.jp
 On Songdo: online.wsj.com
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