Human Settlements XXI: Future Global Agglomerations: World's largest cities: Digital&Smart City + Green&Eco City + Intelligent&Human City

SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY “X” PROGRAM:
SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES GLOBAL INITIATIVE : SMART SUSTAINABLE URBANISM VS. SMART URBANISM
THE I-CITY “X” PLATFORM IS TO COLLECT BIG DATA FROM SMART COMPUTING, INTELLIGENT INSTRUMENTATION, SMART DEVICES AND
SENSORS EMBEDDED IN ITS STREETS AND ROADWAYS, POWER AND WATER GRIDS, BUILDINGS AND OTHER CITY ASSETS, INTERCONNECTED VIA
SMART COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, WIRED, WIRELESS AND MOBILE, USING SMART SOFTWARE FOR DELIVERING INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AND
SERVICES: DIGITAL CITIZENS, SMART POLITICS, SMART HEALTH, SMART EDUCATION, SMART HOME, SMART UTILITIES (WATER, ENERGY, WASTE,
TRANSPORTATION, INFORMATION), SMART SAFETY AND SECURITY, ONLINE TAXES AND PERMITS, UTILITY BILLS, E-PAYMENTS, GIS INFORMATION ON
CABLES, PIPES, WATER MAINS, TRAFFIC MAPS, CRIME REPORTS, EMERGENCY WARNINGS, CULTURAL EVENTS,
ETC. HTTP://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/ASHABOOK/AZAMAT-ABDOULLAEV
THE FUTURE WORLD CITIES: Smart Sustainable
Cities™ for the World’s 100 largest Urban Areas. Living on the iCITY Platform
“The only path to sustainable development is through sustainable cities, while most of the world’s media and political leadership
focus on national and international geopolitical issues: the economic crises in Europe, climate change, the Arab Spring, the “war
on terror,” China’s ascendancy.” (World Bank, the Partnership for Sustainable Cities).
In a fast urbanizing world, the global sustainable development largely depends on building urban sustainability with smart
urbanism and eco-intelligent urbanization.
In China, the accumulated investment in smart and green cities developments is to exceed 2 trillion yuan by 2025, while new
India’s government is planning to attract about $1.2 trillion for its 100 smart cities over the next 20 years.
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable-city; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/eis-ltd

SMART SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: POST-2015
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
 The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, resulted
in an agreement by Member States to launch a process to develop a set of sustainable development goals that can be used to
pursue focused and coherent action on sustainable development. National consultations on a post-2015 development agenda
were performed in more than 70 countries.
 The Agenda is potentially differentiated along four dimensions of a more holistic approach: (1) inclusive social development; (2)
inclusive economic development; (3) environmental sustainability; and (4) peace and security — which builds upon the three
pillars of sustainable development, as a fair and stable global trading system, adequate financing for development, affordable
access to technology and knowledge and good governance practices based on rule of law, among others.
 The “Smart Sustainable Communities” is an innovative contribution to an UN Action Agenda for Sustainable Development as
covering 10 priority challenges:
  End extreme poverty including hunger (“poverty eradication is the greatest global challenge facing the world today…Chronic
hunger continues to afflict some 1.4 billion people”, failing to survive at less than 1,25 $ per day.)
  Achieve development within planetary boundaries
  Ensure Effective Learning for All Children and Youth for Life and Livelihood
  Achieve Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, and Human Rights for All
  Achieve Health and Wellbeing at All Ages
  Improve Agriculture Systems and Raise Rural Prosperity
  Empower Inclusive, Productive, and Resilient Cities
  Curb Human--‐Induced Climate Change and Ensure Clean Energy for All
  Secure Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity, Ensure Good Management of Water and Other Natural Resources
  Transform Governance for Sustainable Development
 REPORT FOR THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL, 23 October 2013, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, A Global Initiative
for the United Nations. http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-world-27173937
The World’s Cities of Tomorrow Azamat Abdoullaev 2015 All Rights Reserved

SUSTAINABLE SMART COMMUNITIES: DYSTOPIA,
UTOPIA OR EUTOPIA OF THE 21ST CENTURY
 Gaining all fashion in civil society, academia, business and government, smart and sustainable cities describe places of near-
ideal socio-economic perfection, utopia, that are governed by intelligent ICT, as pervasive and ubiquitous smart computing, and
which society, economy and governance are being driven by sustainability, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and
intelligent people.
 A New Utopia of the 21st century is then redefined as an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants enjoy perfect living
conditions, or sustainable life, economic, social, ecological, cultural, technological, etc.
 There are historically three type of utopias, presented by its champions:
 Speculative, Plato’s Republic; New Atlantis, F. Bacon; A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells, etc.
 Satirical, dystopias, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel; the Iron Heel, J, London; We, Y. Zamyatin; Brave New World, A. Huxley; 1984, G.
Orwell; Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, A. Townsend.
 Practical, Utopia, Thomas Moore ; La citta del sole, T. Campanella; Communist Manifesto, K. Marx; Communism, the USSR,
China; The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, J.
Rifkin, technological communism, making goods and services priceless, and abundant, and no longer subject to market forces.
 Real Utopia implies a body politics (a city-state) where the institutions and policies governed by reason as contrasted with the
modern unreasonable polity, divided by self-interest and egoism in public and private life and greed for power, money and
riches.
 There is risk of building globally dystopian smart communities, as Big Brother Cities, run by machine reason, that is mostly
advanced by large corporate interests pushing forward such technologies as the IBM’s Intelligent Operations Center, the
Cisco’s Internet of Things, lacking an integrated urban sustainability planning, development and management. There is a high
chance of dystopia scenarios of technocratic governance, the corporatisation of city governance and a technological lock-in, or
the panoptic city (Rob Kitchin, The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism).
 Smart Sustainable Cities fall under practical and practicable utopian commonwealths, questing for an innovation utopia, Eu-
Topia, following the vision of future cities with a holistic socio-economic urban planning and intelligent design and running by
combined human-machine intelligence, as the Internet of Everything (People, Knowledge, Processes and Machines).
 Eutopia is to involve an intelligent communications platform (the Future Internet), a new energy platform (distributed,
renewable energy), and a new mobility platform (driverless vehicles and automated drones) giving rise to the Third Industrial
Revolution and a new Urban Revolution of Smart and Sustainable Communities and Cities.
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-cities-27402134
FUTURE WORLD CITIES Project
Azamat Abdoullaev 2014-2015

URBAN REVOLUTION: THE SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF TOMORROW
 In a fast urbanizing world, the global sustainable development largely depends on building urban sustainability with smart
urbanism and eco-intelligent urbanization: “the only path to sustainable development is through sustainable cities, while most
of the world’s media and political leadership focus on national and international geopolitical issues: the economic crises in
Europe, climate change, the Arab Spring, the “war on terror,” China’s ascendancy.” (World Bank, the Partnership for
Sustainable Cities).
 It is estimated that by 2025 two-thirds of the world’s population is likely to live in urban areas, with 95 per cent of the urban
population growth in the developing world cities.
 Today’s cities already contain more than 50 per cent of the world’s population, account for 75 per cent of global energy
consumption and emit 70 per cent of greenhouse gas.
 Some 80% of the EU's gross domestic product and almost 90% of China's GDP are produced in the urban communities,
concentrating social live, science and technology, culture, trade, business and people, while beset with aging technical,
economic and social infrastructure.
 It’s increasingly recognized that the integrated urban paradigm of “Smart Sustainable Cities” could be a silver bullet solution
for a comprehensive sustainable urban growth in the 21st century, the century of cities.
 As an example, in China, the accumulated investment in smart and green cities developments is to exceed 2 trillion yuan by
2025, while new India’s government is planning to attract about $1.2 trillion for its 100 smart cities over the next 20 years.
 It is increasingly realized that future city strategy and policy, intelligent design and integrated planning, innovation and
technology are the bedrock of the smart sustainable city, where the advanced information and communication technology (ICT)
and eco-engineering solutions, with intelligent social capital, are getting the leading role in essentially improving the
performance of city systems, services and operations, raising the quality of life and well-being for its citizens.
 The Post-Industrial Smart Revolution is to bring forth an Urban Revolution marked with Global Sustainable Urbanization and
Smart World Urbanism. and disruptive Urbanity.
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-urban-revolution.
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-world-cities-project-smart-sustainable-cities
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-revolution

SMART CITIES VS. SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES™
HISTORY AND ORIGINATION
 A Smart Sustainable City™ had been innovated as an urban system where three innovative cities in one, the Urban Trinity of
Information Cyber Digitally Smart City, Intelligent/Knowledge Socially Inclusive City and Ecological/Clean, Green, Nature-Wise
City.
 It is making an integrated development model of future cities, a Smart Sustainable City™, Sustainable Smart City™, Green
Intelligent City™, Smart Green City™, Green Smart City™, or Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive City™.
 At the Pan-European Smart Cities and Communities Communication Launch Event, the Smart Sustainable City™ Unifying
Model, applied by the author for a specific green field locality in EU, Cyprus, in 2009-2010, had been showcased by the
European Commission as a European Smart City Prototype for cities and communities.
 The concept was first formulated and copyrighted in 2009-2010 (Azamat Sh. Abdoullaev/ Smart EcoCity™ (Intelligent Eco
City™), and publicly presented in the keynote at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information
Technology (CIT-2011).
 The concept of Smart and Sustainable Cities is fast replacing all different future city species, kinds and sorts, as smart city,
green city, intelligent city, innovation city, digital city, ecological city, energy city, inclusive city, healthy city, productive city, clean
and efficient city, adaptive and resilient city, etc.
 Not referring to its original sources, the World Bank is advancing “the Partnership for Smart & Sustainable Cities convening
private, public, academic, and development partners to explore opportunities for collaboration and share knowledge to
promote smarter and more sustainable cities”.
 In all, it gets more and more followers in governments, as China and Japan, major corporations, as Toshiba and Huawei,
international organizations, as ITU, cities and research entities, largely ignoring the conceptual original authorship and IP
Rights.
 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/CIT2011/index.php?p=Keynotes;
 Azamat Sh. Abdoullaev/ Smart EcoCity™ (Intelligent Eco City™): A Development Framework for Sustainable Communities/ISBN
978-9963-9958-1-3; EIS LTD

SUSTAINABLE SMART URBANISM OR SMART URBANISM
 To become intelligent, green and inclusive is the future of any modern city and community.
 Smart and Sustainable Cities, their, strategies, policies, eco-engineering solutions and innovative urban technologies are
generating interest globally to address the contemporary urban problems: rapid urbanization, stressed city finances, aging
infrastructure, rising energy costs, global warming, bad ecology, and competition for global investment and skilled labor, urban
poverty, social exclusion and spatial marginalization.
 The Smart Sustainable Urbanism (SSU) aims to build a new city or to transform any modern city as environmentally
sustainable, inter-connected, instrumented, innovative, and integrated, regionally and globally attractive for businesses,
citizens, visitors and investors.
 SUSTAINABLY SMART CITY is to be managed by the combined human-machine intelligence, managing its resources, assets,
processes and systems: Urban Land and Environment, Roads and Transportation, Energy networks and Utilities, ICT networks
and fiber telecom infrastructure, Public and residential buildings, Natural Resources, Water and Waste management, Social
infrastructure, Health and safety, Education and culture, Public administration and services, Communities and Businesses.
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-cities-27402134
 Considering the 21st century will be a century of cities, most global investment and public funding should/will go for such a
disruptively innovative utopian vision instead of practicing a potentially dystopian smart urbanism.
 “Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods,
networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced
by cities today.
 SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy
of urban digital technologies for managing and controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in managing service
demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing greater social interaction and community networks, providing new
services around health and social care etc.
 Smart urbanism is being represented as the response to almost every facet of the contemporary urban question”.
 [Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn? International Workshop, Durham University, 20-21 June 2013].

TOWARDS A STANDARDAZED DEFINITION OF
SMART AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES
 Academia and research communities, Government agencies, International organizations (United Nations, ITU, etc.), Big
business, Leading market research firms, Trade associations, Standards development organizations, as ISO, BSI, ANSI, IEC,
and IEEE, all are working on smart sustainable cities, based on special models and framework, different attributes and
features, factors and KPIs, rankings, metrics and policies.
 Our original definition is boiled down to "Smart Sustainable City is a complex urban system of a 'knowledge', 'digital', or 'cyber'
and 'eco' city”, characterized by the integration, quality and intelligent management of its main features, factors, functions,
sectors, systems and processes, such as:
 • ICT, telecommunications, communication, computing, connectivity, information and intelligence,
 • governance, management and public administration, planning, policy, regulation, participation,
 • sustainability, climate change, resiliency, the environment and natural resources, territory, landscape, land use,
geography, territory, agricultural areas,
 • physical infrastructure, critical assets, technological networks, energy and utilities,
 • transport, roads, traffic, and mobility,
 • social infrastructure and services, social justice, protection, social inclusion,
 • water and waste, air, soil, and spaces,
 • built environment, real estate, buildings, housing, parks, public spaces,
 • people, society, communities, and citizens, human and social capital, intelligent capital,
 • health and education, learning, leisure, sports, and entertainment,
 • safety and security, as energy, water and food security and public safety,
 • economy and finance, productivity, employment and jobs, commerce, business and entrepreneurship,
 • knowledge, science, technology, innovations in ideas, sciences, technologies, processes, and policy,
 • creativity, culture, and arts,
 • living, welfare, well-being, lifestyle, community life.

WHAT IS A SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY “X”:
HOW IT SHOULD BE DEVELOPED
 A Smart Sustainable City “X” is replaceable by any future city or old and legacy city, agglomeration or metropolitan area, from Adelaide to
Peking to Limassol to Moscow to London to Washington, which is committed to a holistic smart city conception and definition, integrated
urban planning , development and management.
 There are many definitions of smart cities, from the infusion of ICT into urban systems to intelligent design and technological optimization
to reach full sustainability.
 Specifically, a smart city is defined as one in which technology is integrated into a strategic approach to sustainability, citizen well-being,
and economic development. In essence, smart cities are a phenomenon created from the convergence of the challenges of modern
urbanization and the emergence of new technologies that can address them in a comprehensive way.
 The smart city market is to be made up of five main industry sectors: smart energy (and the smart grid), smart transportation, smart water,
smart buildings, and smart government (including social services such as health, education, and security) (Navigant Research).
 Demographic, environmental, economic, political and socio-cultural factors are forcing the urban world to become more efficient and
effective.
 A real or true smart city is a unified urban entity with three critical layers/levels/spaces, all planned, developed and managed as its
integral parts:
 • Digital/ICT/Hi-Tech/Ubiquitous/Cyber/Mobile/Digitally Smart and Intelligent City (Digital/Information Capital; Digital Urban Spaces,
Multi-Play Telecom Network, ICT spaces/systems/applications, Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous Computation, Smart Cloud Computing,
Network-integrated Real Estate, City OS, Intelligent City Management Platform, Augmented Virtual Reality, Virtual Lifestyle);
 • Sustainable/Ecological/Green/Zero-Carbon/Zero-Waste/Eco Friendly/Clean City (Natural Capital; Natural Urban Spaces and
Ecosystems, Green Energy Network, Real Eco Estate, Ecological buildings, Green Lifestyle);
 • Knowledge/Learning/Innovation/Intelligent/Science/Intellectual/LivingLab/Creative/Human/Social
 /Inclusive City/Noopolis (Knowledge Capital; Innovation Systems, Meaningful Urban Spaces, Collective Intelligence, Knowledge
Triangle/Ecology, Health Triangle, Human Social City, Intelligent/Smart Lifestyle).
 A truly smart city is three innovative cities in one, the Urban Trinity of Information Cyber City, Intelligent/Knowledge City and
Ecological/Clean city, making an integrated model of future cities, a Smart Sustainable City™, Sustainable Smart City™, Green Intelligent
City™, Smart Green City™, or Sustainable Smart and Inclusive City™, first announced in the keynote.
 It is essential to draw distinctions between a smart city, as a unified urban entity, and “smart city” technologies, applications, and
systems, as well as fragmented “smart city” projects, lacking the overall conception of the smart city project and resulting in unsustainably
over-costly ventures. http://eu-smartcities.eu/blog/what-not-smart-city
 "A Smart World: A Development Model for Intelligent Cities“, http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/CIT2011/index.php?p=Keynotes

HOW TO DEVELOP TOMORROW’S CITIES TODAY
 The Global Report on Human Settlements (Planning Sustainable Cities) argues that future urban planning must take place in
the context of the factors shaping 21st-century cities: environmental challenges; demographic challenges; economic
challenges; socio-spatial challenges and inequalities; political challenges of decision-making as well as of social and economic
rights among ordinary citizens.
 The Report states: In many parts of the world, there still persist either conventional forms of urban planning, as in the
developing cities, or market-led urban development in the developed world, having serious and negative environmental and
social impacts.
 Specifically, unrealistic urban planning regulations can force the poor to violate laws in order to survive, with more than 1
billion slum dwellers worldwide, just to double over the next generation, like the whole urban population.
 The Smart Sustainable City “X” Planning approach postulates that there must be a fundamental blueprint to sustainable
settlements fundamentally resolving critical urban issues (land use and environment, transportation and mobility, water,
waste, energy, environmental degradation, and social issues as poverty and social exclusion and displacement) regardless of
that each city is marked by its specific political systems, cultural settings, economic structures and ecological climates in which
it continually and historically evolves.
 http://eu-smartcities.eu/blog/eu-urban-agenda-sustainable-cities-pilot-case-smart-limassol
The full concept of Smart City entails that there is a single model and universal approach to sustainable urban planning (in
large legacy cities > 0,5 m, new megacities > 10 m and hypercities > 20 m, as well as in medium-sized settlements, 0,1-0,5 m
and small urban places ,< 0,1m) that can solve fundamental urban problems and emerging urban challenges of the 21st
century. http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smartworl-dabr
 In sum, any sustainable city or intelligent community is to offer not only new or improved methods of urban development,
management and maintenance, but a comprehensive, holistic approach, embracing all city systems, processes, and service in
an integrated smart city urban planning, all to be run by intelligent management governance systems, the “brains” of the
Urban Internet of Everything. http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/CIT2011/files/SMARTWORLD.pdf


SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY “X” PLANNING SYSTEM
 The evolution of sustainable urban planning is reflected in its lexical multiplicity and generalization: spatial planning, land-use planning,
physical planning, city planning, town (and regional) planning, and development planning; urbanisme and urbanization, or development
planning, master plan, comprehensive city plan and detailed plan; strategic and integrated activity
 of government, or urban (public) management, and environmental planning/management, including both the natural and built
environment.
 The traditional forms of urban planning are not only inappropriate for addressing the new challenges, as rapid urbanization, climate
change, resource shortages and energy costs, traffic congestion and pollution, urban poverty and poor housing or aging infrastructures,
but in some circumstances may be directly contributing to the exacerbation of urban life, its poverty, safety and security, social exclusion
and spatial marginalization.
 There are several key characteristics of the Smart City Planning System as distinguished from the standard urban planning systems.
 First, introducing the concept of smart and sustainable growth into urban planning, design and management allows to manage the
process of urbanization through integrated development planning, effective land-use planning, mobilization of resources and capacity-
building (in urban land, urban environment, municipal finance, urban infrastructure and urban poverty): making land and infrastructure
available for low-income housing in healthy and safe locations, while providing education, healthcare, employment, community financing
and other social services within the areas.
 Second, smart urban planning is no more a technical exercise in the physical planning and design of human settlements, with
environmental, technological, social, economic or political matters lying outside the scope of planning:
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 The Smart City planning is no more just a formal activity to be carried out by trained experts with relatively little involvement of civic
society, local authorities, businesses, politicians or communities.
 Third, the Smart Sustainable City Planning is about producing comprehensive city development plans covering urban master plans, or
blueprint plans, portraying ideal visions of the future, and layout plans and local plans, showing a detailed view of the built form of a city in
its ideal end-state.
 It is underpinned by directive plans and strategic plans and implemented by the primary legal tool of the land-use zoning schemes.
 Fourth, there must be a close alignment and synergy between smart city development plans and strategic spatial plans and the system of
land laws and land-use management, with an effective mechanism for this linkage.

SUSTAINABLE CITY MASTER PLANNING
 Townsend in his book, “Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia”, views the
push towards smart cities as being led by the wrong people – technology companies with naïve visions and
short term commercial goals; while the architects, planners and scientists… often struggle to share their
specific knowledge.
 The Global Report on Human Settlements (Planning Sustainable Cities) central argument is still valid: urban
planning systems have changed very little being often contributors to urban problems, and that a new role for
urban planning has to be found to realize the goal of sustainable urbanization of liveable, productive and
inclusive cities, towns and villages.
 The Smart Sustainable City Development Plan provides guidance for specific urban projects, which in the
context of developed Europe are to be strategically integrated ‘brownfield’ urban regeneration projects.
 For the developing India or China, it could be brand new smart and green cities with sustainable and
integrated infrastructural projects, considering that 40,000 new cities will be needed by 2050 to
accommodate another 3 billion residents, mostly from these two leading Asian powers.
 In all, the Future Master Planning sets out future spatial and functional patterns and economic, social and
ecological relationships for transformation cities, emerging as sustainable innovation ecosystems of
interrelated urban systems, technological systems, social systems, economic systems and government
systems.
 As far as the smart city market is projected to exceed $ 1 trillion by 2016, while annual global urban
infrastructure investments make about $10 trillion, it’s the trillion dollar question: who is to plan our cities:
big architectural and engineering firms practicing standard urban planning with some innovations, or big
technology businesses pushing for the adoption by cities and states their “lock-in” technologies and
services?

HOW TO REDEVELOP OLD CITIES:
SMART AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN RENEWAL
 Smart and Sustainable Urbanism (SSU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of holistic urban planning, eco-
engineering solutions and digital technologies with land and the environment, urban ecology, fabric, forms and flows, the built
environment, physical and social infrastructures, networked infrastructures, socio-economic environment, government and
administration, communities, districts and neighborhoods, and people – is a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of
problems faced by cities today.
 Applying an integrated urban planning (creating and following new regulations and standards for land use and zoning, ecology,
transportation, roads and streets, housing, sanitation, water supply, sewage, public spaces, public health conditions,
education, security and other social services)
 Performing comprehensive urban renewal for a whole urban environment and living (rebuilding, land reuse, building,
rehabilitation, area conservation, relocation , or housing reform)
 Taking into account the Urban context:
 Population, density, area, climate, ecology and geography, economy, existing urban planning….)
 • Natural Resources demand (energy, water, food, land): eg, energy consumption per sector, CO2 emissions per sector, etc.
 • Natural Resources supply and infrastructure: eg, energy mix (share of renewables, fuel, nuclear…), approx. energy price,
energy company, energy infrastructure (district heating, share of distributed generation)
 • Building stock: % residential sector, commercial sector, facilities, services, industry, number of units …
 • Transport: modal split, multimodality, public transport characteristics, footing, cycling…
 • Regional and national context: national conditions and incentives for sustainable development in your country (national
programmes, rules, incentives, tax regulations, implementation of standard directives…)
 • City competences and resources: competences and resources under local governments in your country (compared to
regional, national governments) related to sustainable city policies; city budget dedicated to sustainable development policies.
 Covering the systemic approach of the City Protocol , “a new open, global, and progressive working framework for cities
worldwide to assess and improve performance in environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, quality of life, and
city services, by innovating and demonstrating new leadership models, new ways of engaging society, and by leveraging
new ICT… The city should be adaptive, learning, evolving, robust, autonomous, self-repairing, and self-reproducing”.
http://www.cityprotocol.org.

SMART MEGATRENDS:
SMART CITY GLOBAL COMPETITION
 The question of who is to lead the future cities market is getting a global meaning as far as global competitors are actively pursuing large Smart City
programs as part of smart revolutions: http:// www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-revolution
 In its Five-Year National Planning, China’s future “smart cities” are to become a main driver of its urbanization process, with 2 trillion yuan ($322 billion)
to be allocated to more than 600 cities nationwide by 2025.
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-china
 China’s going for “the business as usual” approach consisting in requesting the fragmented services from the increasing army of urbanplanners and
architects, operators and exporters of smart city technologies, products and services, which SMART City “X” should avoid: Following the India Vision
2020, the nation is embarking on an ambitious $90 billiontwo-phase industrial program to build new industrial cities as smart, sustainable cities of the
future, along a territorial corridor, spanning six states, connecting two capitals, Delhi and Mumbai, and affecting 14% of India’s population.
Conceptualized with the Government of Japan, the DMIC program master plan is mostly focusing on deploying next generation technologies and
road/rail/air connectivity and infrastructure linkages, with 24 economic nodes, investment regions and industrial areas. The goal is to expand
national manufacturing and services base, becoming a "Global Manufacturing and Trading Hub”, minimizing green growth and social development
programs.
 The Japanese Government created a “FutureCity” with a goal to “construct sustainable cities with superior environmental technologies, core
infrastructure and resilience all over the world…to advance the “Future City” model of urban planning with state-of-the-art environmental sustainability,
strong disaster resilience and superb livability”. http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-japan
 The European Union has embarked on a long-term strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. There are more than 100 000 cities, towns
and communities in EU, with a fierce competition for resources, local, regional and global, and public and private capital. Only innovative cities, towns
and communities with innovative public projects will have a strong competitive advantage.
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/urban-europe
 The European Commission established a European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Smart Cities and Communities.
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-europe
 Russia’s expenses just for its intelligent model community (Skolkovo Innovation Center) might exceed $15 billion, not mentioning it’s planned
multibillion infrastructure projects. http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable-russia
 Again, following the mega trend of smart global urbanization, the UK Government organized the Smart Cities Forum coordinatedby Technology Strategy
Board, with very useful initiative of the Future Cities Demonstrator competition:
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-britain

A SUSTAINABLE URBAN WORLD AGENDA FOR EUROPE:
THE CASE OF SMART URBAN EUROPE 2020
 The recent EU Future CITIES major forum signaled that an Urban Europe Agenda is getting an official attention as a key mechanism of the
EU Strategy 2020, developing the smart, sustainable, and inclusive Europe:
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-europe
 Among the questions for debates there were as follows:
 Why do we need an EU urban agenda?
 What should an EU urban agenda be?
 How can an EU urban agenda be implemented?
 If the first question is just rhetorical, the rest two bear critical importance , as indicated, in Europe there are more than 100,000 cities and
communities, with almost 80% as urban dwellers, all looking to improve their communal wealth and urban life through sustainable
integrated solutions.
 To be most effective, we believe, an EU urban agenda should be a Global Comprehensive Strategy and Reference Framework for
sustainable cities and intelligent communities, comprising the following key features:
 Guiding principles with a system of goals and objectives with measurable targets
 Integrated sustainable urban development policy covering the economic, environmental, climate, political, technological and social
challenges of urban life Integrated investment strategy meeting the economic, environmental, political, technological, digital and social
problems of urban life
 Implementation roadmap to realize integrated territorial re/development in the most systematic ways (to secure a minimum of 5 % of the
ERDF resources allocated for integrated actions for sustainable urban development)
 Urban Europe Development Platform for coordinating actors and policies, European, national and local:
http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/urban-europe
 In all, on the European level, the Urban Europe Intelligent InterCloud Platform is proposed, where each MS and major city will be featured
by its smart cloud system: https://eu-smartcities.eu/forum/smart-green-europe.
 On the urban level, each intelligent community and smart city is projected to be managed by its urban brains, an intelligent city cloud
platform, managing its resources, assets, processes and systems: Urban Land and Environment, Roads and Transportation, Energy
networks and Utilities, ICT networks and fiber telecom infrastructure, Public and residential buildings, Natural Resources, Water and
Waste management, Social infrastructure, Health and safety, Education and culture, Public administration and services, Communities and
Businesses. http://eu-smartcities.eu/blog/eu-urban-agenda-sustainable-cities-pilot-case-smart-limassol

BARRIERS TO SMART CITIES: PRIVATION OF HOLISTIC VISION,
SYSTEM VIEW AND INTEGRATED APPROACH
 inertia, conservatism, or resistance to innovative forms of future developments
 lack of sustainable policies and regulations and financing
 lack of comprehensive future community strategy
 lack of integrated urban design and planning
 lack of a vision, visionary and determination for innovations, social, technological, economic, and ecological
 lack of sustainability commitment in community government
 lack of funding for socially sustainable investment, limited public funding capacity: high public deficits,
incapacity to raise funding from capital markets
 lack of sustainability in public procurement rules, regulations and laws
 poor innovation culture and lack of innovative technology knowledge
 poor citizen engagement, government participation and social inclusion
 monopoly of large commercial interest groups
 uncertainties around innovation technologies scaling
 new urban technology is not well-understood across city sectors
 existing governance, financing and procurement models are ill-suited for urban systems integration
 lack of innovative financial schemes and business models
 lack of integration of technologies, poor interoperability and integration of city systems
 lack of smart community ecosystem of citizens, government, technology vendors
 Incremental, siloed , isolated and piecemeal implementation models

DYSTOPIAN CONCERNS OF SMART URBANISM
 Offering an attractive vision of future cities, more efficient, sustainable, competitive, productive, open and transparent, the
Smart Urbanism implies also a number of fundamental concerns, which are prevented with the Smart Sustainable Urbanism:
 Technocratic urban governance
 The drive towards managing and regulating the city via information and analytic systems promotes a technocratic mode of
urban governance which presumes that all aspects of a city can be measured and monitored and treated as technical
problems which can be addressed through technical solutions.
 Technocratic forms of governance are highly narrow in scope and reductionist and functionalist in approach, based on a limited
set of particular kinds of data and failing to take account of the wider effects of culture, politics, policy, governance and capital
that shape city life and how it unfolds
 The corporatisation of city governance and a technological lock-in
 Alongside the critique that smart city governance is too technocratic in nature is a concern that it is being captured and overtly
shaped by corporate interests for their own gain (Townsend, A., Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New
Utopia; Townsend, A., Maguire, R., Liebhold, M. and Crawford, M., A Planet of Civic Laboratories: The future of cities,
information and inclusion. Institute for the Future, Palo Alto).
 The smart city agenda and associated technologies are being heavily promoted by a number of the world’s largest software
services and hardware companies who view city governance as a large, long-term potential market for their products.
 The panoptic city (an all-seeing vantage point)
 With the development of various forms of directed, automated and networked digital technologies, there have been increasing
concerns over the rising level of surveillance in societies. It is now possible to track and trace individuals and their actions,
interactions and transactions in minute detail across a number of domains (work, travel, consumption, etc). Big data and data
control centres integrate and bind data streams together, work to move the various oligopticon systems into a single, panoptic
vantage point and raise the spectre of a Big Brother society based on a combination of surveillance (gazing at the world) and
dataveillance (trawling through and interconnecting datasets), and a world in which all aspects of a citizen’s life are captured
and potentially never forgotten. (Rob Kitchin, The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism; ‘Smart Urbanism: Utopian
Vision or False Dawn’ workshop at the University of Durham, 20-21 June 2013).

FUTURE WORLD CITIES Project Azamat Abdoullaev 2014-2015
SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY ARCHITECTURE
Social
City/
Town/
Community
SUSTAINABLE
SMART CITY
“X”
i-City
Platform
Eco-
City/
Town/
Community
Digital
City/
Town/
Community
Physical Capital
Natural Capital
Ecosystems
Natural Resources
Renewables/RES
Eco Technologies
Green Infrastructure
Eco-Urbanization
Green Society
ECO-SUSTAINABLEGROWTH Information/DigitalCapital
Smart Computing, Smart Mobile
Services, ICT Infrastructure, OTN,
Optical Networks , NG Broadband
3DTV, HDTV, CC, Intelligent Clouds
Internet of Things, u-Computation
Digital/Cyber Society
TECHNOLOGICAL/SMARTGROWTH
Social/Human/I-Capital
Innovation Ecosystems
Smart Living
Smart Economy
Knowledge Infrastructure
i-Industry
Smart Governance
Equity, Wellbeing, QoL
Knowledge Society
SOCIAL/INCLUSIVE GROWTH
SUSTAINABLE Smart URBAN TRINITY
of
Wellbeing, Quality of Life and Sustainable Growth

SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY “X” INVESTMENT STRATEGY
 In 2014-2015, Most Worldwide Spending on Smart City Projects Will Be Focused on Intelligent ICT, Energy, Transportation, and
Public Safety, mainly Funded by National or International Government and governed by Joint Ventures or PPP.
 The “Smart City “X” Investment Strategy aims to transform a city as an intelligent eco city: environmentally sustainable, inter-
connected, instrumented, innovative, and integrated, regionally and globally attractive for businesses, citizens, visitors and
investors.
 Its Vision is to become a Smart City of the Future, Intelligent Eco City or Smart Sustainable Urban Community.
While operating, SMART City “X” is to be managed by its urban brains, an intelligent city cloud platform, managing its
resources, assets, processes and systems: Urban Land and Environment, Roads and Transportation, Energy networks and
Utilities, ICT networks and fiber telecom infrastructure, Public and residential buildings, Natural Resources, Water and Waste
management, Social infrastructure, Health and safety, Education and culture, Public administration and services, Communities
and Businesses.
 As the key challenges, there are recognized the lack of technology and business models standardization, price competition and
poor partnership, when each player protects its IP, thus failing to establish a working consortium of general contractors,
architect firms, housing companies, IT vendors, auto companies, electronics companies and energy suppliers
 Thus, to build a real intelligent community or smart city, all the key sectors of communal life should be covered: land and
environment, transportation, mobility, energy, buildings, ICT, water, waste, health, education, safety and security, and other
social services, as closely interconnected and interfaced.
 Capitalizing on intelligent strategic planning and digital solutions, Smart City “X” is setting forward a total strategic investment
package of the next-generation urban development, bettering the existing Smart City Value Chain of Plan, Research/FS and
Implementation: {Concept, Design > Estate/Land Space Plan} > {Environment/energy plan> [Traffic plan/Water plan/IT
plan/Business plan] >Financing} > {EPC > Production > Device Installation > Infrastructure Supply > Life Support > Community
Activities}. (see Smart City Planning, Inc., World Cities Summit, 2012).
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-cities-27402134
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-property http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/ibuilding-26545480

“SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY “X” DEVELOPMENT
PLAN:
VISION, OBJECTIVES, PROJECTS AND TIMELINES
 VISION: The SMART City “X” Program aims to achieve a vision of becoming a model for intelligent
sustainable urban redevelopment, initiating the following Projects:
 CREATING OVERALL SMART ECO CITY STRATEGY: Intelligent Community Design, Setting a Comprehensive
Intelligent Community and Smart City Agenda/ Strategy/ Vision/Roadmap/MasterPlanning/Technological
Platform
 Scope: Smart City Branding & Full Sustainability Report & Total Package of the Next-Generation Urban
Development
 SMART CITY “X” PROJECTS MANAGEMENT PLANNING (Work Breakdown Structure and Project Organization
Structure)
 Scope: Smart Eco City Program
 DEVELOPING SMART CLOUD CITY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (MUNICIPAL CONTROL AND COMMAND
CENTER)
 Scope: Urban Management System; Smart Cloud Computing Urban Platform
 ORGANIZING SMART CITY SEMINARS FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS, MUNICIPAL STAFF, INVESTORS AND OTHER
STAKEHOLDERS
 ORGANIZING SMART CITY STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM
 ORGANIZING SMART CITY INVESTORS SUMMITS (Local, European, International; Programs and Prospects)
 APPLYING AND MANAGING SMART CITY PROJECTS under EU Multiannual Financing Framework 2014-2020
 EU Horizon 2020 (Lighthouse Projects); EU CSF Funds 2014-2020 (Integrated Urban Development Platform)

SMART CITY TEAM AND STAKEHOLDERS:
CORE MEMBERS AND PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS
 Smart Eco City Developers
 EIS Encyclopedic Intelligent Systems Ltd, Smart Cities
European Innovation Partnership Stakeholder; Dr Azamat
Abdoullaev, Director)
 the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and
Communities (Action Clusters and Sub-Groups)
 Smart Eco Community “X” Consortium
 Telecommunication Utilities
 (Connected Living, M2M-enabled Smart Cities, M2M solutions
for towns and cities, Global M2M Platform, tbc)
 Energy Utilities; Transport & Logistics
 Research Institutions
 (Smart Software and Flow Network Group, Oxford, UK; Prof
Michael Todinov); (Intelligent GIS Group, Smart Digital
Elevation Model Systems, EU; Dr Tomaž Podobnikar); (Cyprus
University of Technology; Smart Cities and Internet of Things,
Cyprus, Limassol)
 Global Investment Consultants
 Global Investment Consultancy Group, New York, USA; Mark
Minevich
 INITIATIVES:
 Smart Cities Global Initiative (2014-2015)
 Sustainable States Global Initiative (2014-2016)
 Smart Green Europe: EU Smart Urban Agenda
 Smart Sustainable City Corporations
 EIS (I-World Concept and Smart Sustainable City Strategy)
 European Innovation Partnership (Smart Cities and
Communities)
 IBM (Smarter Planet Initiative)
 Cisco Systems (Smart + Connected Communities)
 Siemens (Smart Mobility Initiative)
 Huawei (Smart City Initiative)
 Orange (France Telecom) (Smart City Initiative)
 Alcatel-Lucent (Smart City Initiative)
 Microsoft (Intelligent City Platform)
 Oracle (Intelligent Government Platform)
 Toshiba (Intelligent Energy and Smart City)
 Schneider Electric (Smart City Initiative)
 Hitachi (Smart City Initiative)
 Smart City Planning, Inc. (SAP, LG CNS, NEC, HP, etc.)
 Smart Cities Council, collects technology companies in
energy, water, IT and communications and transportation:
Alstom Grid, AT&T, Bechtel, Cisco, EDF, GE, IBM, Itron,
MasterCard, Microsoft, National Grid, Qualcomm, S&C
Electric Company, ABB, Alphinat, GRID2020, Invensys,
MaxWest, Opower, Sungard and Zipcar
FUTURE WORLD CITIES Project Azamat
Abdoullaev 2014-2015

SMART CITY STAKEHOLDERS:
MUNICIPAL CONTRIBUTION
 CITY COUNCIL LEGAL SUPPORT FOR SMART CITY STRATEGIES AND POLICIES
 MAYOR’S SUPPORT FOR SMART CITY STRATEGIES AND POLICIES, PLANS AND PROGRAMS, PROJECTS AND
SCHEMES
 SIGNING UP THE SMART CITY MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
 PRESENTING A SPACE FOR THE CITY INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT (Municipal Command and Control
Center)
 ARRANGING SMART CITY CONFERENCES
 COVERING EXPENSES FOR SMART CITY CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM RENTALS
 CONTRIBUTING LOCAL INTELLECTUAL RESOURCES (Urban Planners and Architects, Civil Engineers, Software
engineers, Accountants, Legal Advisors, Translators, etc.)
 FACILITATING APPLICATIONS TO EU FUNDING SCHEMES 2014-2020
 ARRANGING SMART CITY EVENTS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND INVESTORS (CONFERENCES, SEMINARS,
WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, ETC.)
 FACILITATING SMART CITY STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM
 FACILITATING SMART CITY INVESTORS SUMMITS (Local, European, International)
 ADVANCING SMART CITY CITIZEN INVOVEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT (Information, Knowledge and Awareness,
Smart City “X” Websites, Education and Training Programs, press statements and information materials (e.g.
flyers, brochures, handouts); events (expert discussions, presentations, conferences, etc.)

SMART GREEN CITY:
CONCEPTUAL REFERENCE FRAMEWORK

SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY:
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS TO BE APPLIED
 Digital Solutions or Smart Community Technologies
 Green Solutions or Eco Community Technologies
 Social Solutions or Inclusive Community Technologies
 Sustainable Community Integrating Technologies,
 as Socio-Technological Open Platform,
 Internet of Things,
 Green ICT,
 Smart Healthcare,
 Social ICT,
 Smart Social Technologies,
 and Internet of Everything Technologies.
FUTURE WORLD CITIES Project Azamat Abdoullaev 2014-2015

GREEN ECO CITY:
INVESTMENT PROJECTS AND ECO TECHNOLOGIES
 Green Growth Strategy
 The starting point is the recognition that sustainable urban development, with each of its four
pillars, as ecological, economic, social and technological, reinforced and mutually reinforcing, is
the overarching goal of the urban community
 Green City “X” has to adopt and implement urban policies and programs that are consistent
with a green economy in the context of eco-sustainable development, urban wealth or poverty
eradication.
 Eco-Engineering Projects and Technologies:
 Eco-Sustainable Land and Environment, Clean Transportation, Green Roads, Living Roofs, Rain-
collecting and Water-recycling systems, etc.
 Green, Living, or Cool Roofs covered with gardens and renewable energy systems, wind micro-
generation, combined solar systems, etc.
 Sustainable Built Environment and energy efficient real estate.
 1. Energy efficient buildings & districts & streets & blocks
 2. Renewable energy policies and distributed energy generation
 3. Energy in urban transport, utilities, etc.

HUMAN SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY:
TECHNOLOGIES AND INVESTMENT PROJECTS
 Inclusive Growth Strategy
 The starting point is the recognition that social urban development, with each of its four
integrated pillars, ecological, economic, social and technological, is the overarching goal of the
urban community
 Social or Human Smart City “X” has to adopt and implement urban policies and programs that
are consistent with an inclusive economy in the context of social development, urban wealth or
poverty eradication.
 Social Innovation Technologies and Projects:
 new strategies, concepts, ideas, methods, techniques, organizations and institutions
 All that meet communal needs of all kinds:
 working conditions
 business models
 education
 quality jobs,
 safety, security and health
 All that contribute to sustainable living, improving and strengthening commune life, economy
and urban society.
 Smart urban policies and planning consider citizens and disruptive technologies as the most
valuable resources.

SMART CITY “X” AS A LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT MEMBER
 Smart City “X” has an opportunity to apply for the planned Lighthouse Projects, inviting institutions, public
bodies, industries, city networks, and academia to proactively contribute to the cause.
 To deploy smart city solutions across urban mobility; districts and built environment; and integrated
infrastructures, reaching Europe's 20/20/20 energy and climate targets, the concept of Smart City
”Lighthouse Initiatives” is to be implemented, requesting collaboration between the European Commission,
Member States and Industry, as well as cities and research institutions.
 Over the next 7 years, a portfolio of at least 20 - 25 lighthouse projects is to be created: each with 6-10 cities
(and partners), with the potential for Europe-wide roll out – dependent on levels of commitment, and access
to/creation of funds.
 Successful lighthouse initiatives will provide a solid foundation and give confidence to other cities, in the
knowledge they can apply tested solutions (and that have already attracted investment) – that will be better,
faster, and cheaper to implement a Europe-wide deployment of Smart City concepts. .
 Implementation principles to be guided: close city–industry collaboration; outcome and user-centric
approach to service design; open governance and information principles; inclusive and balanced SME
participation; integration of physical and digital infrastructures; actively seek to innovate, learn, and share
knowledge; collaborative governance.
 Source: European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities - Strategic Implementation Plan
14.10.2013
 http://eu-smartcities.eu/content/presenting-european-innovation-partnership-smart-cities-and-communities

SMART AND SUSTAINABLE CITY:
CSF FUNDS FOR INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 Smart City “X” is to be indicated as a city implementing integrated and innovative actions for sustainable urban development with delegated
management in the Partnership Contract and the Operational Programmes to have the EU CSF Funding 2014- 2020 benefits:
 Ring-fencing funding for integrated sustainable urban development A minimum of 5 % of the ERDF resources allocated to each Member State
shall be invested in integrated actions for sustainable urban development implemented through the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) tool,
with the management and implementation delegated to cities (Article 7 paragraph 2 of the proposed ERDF regulation).
 The form and degree of the delegation of the management to the cities may vary according to the institutional arrangements of each Member
State.
 The cities implementing integrated actions for sustainable urban development with delegated management should be included in a list
accompanying the Partnership Contracts (Article 7, paragraph 2) and the operational programme (Article 87, paragraph 2 [c]). These lists are
indicative and could be modified during the course of the programming period.
 Urban Development Platform: Based on a list of cities prepared by Member States in their Partnership Contract, the Commission will establish an
Urban Development Platform comprising 300 cities throughout Europe, which will stimulate a more policy-oriented dialogue on urban
development between the cities at European level and the Commission.
 It is not a funding instrument, but rather a mechanism for making the contribution of cities under cohesion policy to the Europe 2020 Strategy
more visible, facilitating integrated and innovative actions for sustainable urban development and capitalising on the results (Article 8 of the
proposed ERDF regulation).
 Operations supported by several funds, multi-fund Operational Programmes and cross-financing: The implementation of integrated urban
development strategies will be enhanced by the possibility to combine actions financed by ERDF, ESF and CF either at programme or operation
level.
 Cross-financing between ERDF and ESF of a part of an operation (up to 5 % of each priority axis of an Operational Programme) will remain to
complement the multi-fund approach (Article 55, paragraph 8 and 88 of the proposed Common Provisions for CSF Funds 2014-2020).
 The Scale and Scope of ITI: the financing of integrated actions is to be ranging from neighbourhood or district level to functional areas such as
city-regions or metropolitan areas – including neighbouring rural areas.
 Besides, the innovative urban actions (0,2% of the total ERDF allocation) are supported as urban pilot projects, demonstration projects, etc.,
covering all thematic objectives and investment priorities.
 SOURCES: INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT. COHESION POLICY 2014-2020

INTELLIGENT CLOUD CITY: I-CITY PLATFORM
MUNICIPAL COMMAND AND CONTROL CENTER
 Smart Sustainable City “X” is to be deployed in a Smart Computing Cloud System of the following functional systems:
 Land Cloud, Transport Cloud, Utilities Cloud, Energy Cloud, Building Cloud, Facility Cloud, Security Cloud, Health Cloud,
Education Cloud, Government Cloud, Business Cloud, Culture Cloud, Environment Cloud, Citizen Cloud; Private Clouds and
Public Clouds, Cloud Communities, Cloud Regions
 It will be made up of five interdependent control layers: smart city applications, software city environments, software city
infrastructure, software kernel, and high-performance hardware, as below:
 Infrastructure and Applications
 (Software as a Service, SaaS, Web access Portals, User-driven web-based services for citizens and businesses, Front
 end interface to city clouds, applications and services)
 APPLICATION LAYER (i-City, i-Environment, Digital City Management, Integrated Operations Center, Emergency Command
Center, i-Government, i-Traffic, i-Home, i-Office, i-Education, i-Health, i-Security, i-Entertainment, i-Business, i-Community, i-Life,
or Second Life)
 Application Program Interface
 (Platform as a Service, PaaS, eg, Google’s App Engine and Salesforce Customer Relation Management)
 SEMANTIC COMMUNITY REASONING PLATFORM, SMART CITY CLOUD PLATFORM, FUTURE CITY INTERNET MIDDLEWARE,
INTELLIGENT CITY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM, FUTURE CITY OPERATING SYSTEM
 PLATFORM SUPERVISORY LAYER (IT Engine, M2M Engine, App Integration)
 (OS kernel, hypervisor, virtual machine monitor and/or clustering middleware; grid and cluster computing applications)
 SMART VIRTUAL MACHINES
 NETWORK LAYER (Internet, Communication Networks, M2M Network, FTTH, GPON, etc.)

SMART CITY ‘X’: SMART CLOUD AND SERVICES
 Municipal command and control
Intelligent governance center
 Smart mobile cloud services
 Smart retails systems
 Smart grids
 Communication network optimization
 Home energy management Systems
 Intelligent Building
 Traffic flow optimization
 Factory optimization
 Logistics optimization
 Smart traffic cameras
 Intelligent digital signage
 Smart NFC services
 Automated M2M car systems
 Connected ambulances
 Hospital optimization and Smart health
mobile systems
 Intelligent medical devices
 Intelligent Safety and Security Systems
 Intelligent public safety
 Intelligent hospital
 Intelligent devices (medical, electrical,
etc.)
 Intelligent street lighting
 Intelligent Transportation
 Intelligent streets, roads and highway
 Intelligent Digital Citizens
 M2M-enabled smart cities

SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY “X”: MOBILE SMART CITIES
 To improve the quality of life of their citizens, cities worldwide are looking to harness ICT to address traffic congestion, air
pollution, waste disposal, energy costs, over-crowded public transport and many other challenges.
 As leading providers of ICT and related services, mobile operators, the GSMA’s core membership, are well placed to help city
administrations become more efficient and effective.
 Smart cities are still in their infancy, but it is already clear that they will make extensive use of mobile networks and services.
Out of the 150 smart cities the GSMA tracks globally, more than 100 cities have deployed services (beyond smartphone apps)
that make use of mobile networks. Half of these cities are located in Europe.
 Now is the time for telcos to engage in the emerging smart cities market, representing a strategically important global market
in the medium-to-long term.
 If they engage with city administrations now, mobile operators will have an opportunity to become an essential part of the city’s
social infrastructure, creating a platform for future revenue-generating services that harness big data and cloud computing.
 A megatrend is to intelligently interconnect all the mobile devices, machines and vehicles to create a so-called Internet of
Things that could be used to underpin a smart city.
 Mobile operators can play a role in four key elements of smart city services:
 ■ Connectivity/managed connectivity – connecting city infrastructure and individuals’ handsets to central servers
 and databases;
 ■ Data aggregation/analysis – combining data from multiple sources to produce new insights;
 ■ Service delivery – delivering real-time information to people and machines that will enable them to adapt and
 respond to events in the city;
 ■ Customer interface - providing customer support operations, such as call centers and web portals, as well as
 delivering messages to subscribers.
 GSMA Smart Cities. Guide to Smart Cities: The Opportunity for Mobile Operators, 2013

SUSTAINABLE SMART CITY “X” AS AN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
 Smart City ‘X” is to integrate urban systems, social systems, economic
systems and government systems
 Smart City “X” is to built as a sustainable innovation ecosystem:
 Innovative (in concepts, processes, technologies, and tools)
 Inspiring (active citizen involvement and engagement, attractive to talents,
top world researchers, investors and future industries and smart
manufacturing)
 Integrated (addressing the entire intelligent ecosystem, linked to the
national goals, strategies, initiatives, priorities, and targets)
 Interactive (communications and interactions between people, places,
infrastructure and environment, public and private actors, government
offices and civic communities, etc.)
 In all, it makes an instrumented, interconnected, intelligent and innovative city.

FUTURE INTELLIGENT CITY: SMART CLOUD PLATFORM + INTERNET OF EVERYTHING
The Smart Cloud Platform (IBM or Cisco
Powered) www.ibm.com/smartcloud
The Urban Internet of Everything is the
cloud-networked connection of people,
processes, data, and things.
PEOPLE (COMMUNITIES, PERSON, ORGANIZATIONS)
PROCESS (ACTIVITIES, SERVICES)
DATA (INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE)
THINGS (BUILDINGS, MACHINES, DEVICES)
The i-City Operation Center is connected
with thousands of sensors and cameras
spread throughout the cities, as the city
brain of the Urban IoE, in which M2M
technologies are vital to present intelligent
data analytics for core systems and urban
processes.
Smart City “X” Intelligent Platform is to
integrate a technology-centric (smart) level,
an intelligent (people-centric) level, and
eco-sustainable level improving the Urban
Economy, Community Integration, Quality of
Life, and overall Sustainability.
$14.4 trillion of potential value at stake for the
private sector, IoE is a $19 trillion opportunity
for businesses and governments globally 2013-
2022. http://internetofeverything.cisco.com/

“SECURING SMART CITIES”: CREATING SAFE, RELIABLE
AND RESILIENT URBAN COMPLEXES
 Cities around the world are becoming smarter by
applying new technologies for traffic control, public
transport, street lighting, public security, assets
management, and urban governance.
 The smart city technological and communication
environment, the network infrastructure and the Internet
of Things, government data and city’s services present
vulnerabilities to cyber attacks.
 200,000 vulnerable traffic control sensors were
installed in Washington DC, New York, Seattle, San
Francisco, London, Lyon, Melbourne, and other
important cities around the world.
 Securing Smart Cities, a new not-for-profit global
initiative, was launched in May 2015, involving leading IT
security researchers, companies and organizations, as
IOActive, Kaspersky Lab, Bastille, and the Cloud Security
Alliance.
 The Securing Smart Cities initiative aims to solve the
cybersecurity risks and challenges through collaboration
and information sharing.
 The group will serve as a communications node for
companies, governments, media outlets, not-for-profit
initiatives, and individuals across the world involved in
the creation, improvement, and promotion of smart and
safe technologies for modern cities:
http://securingsmartcities.org.
 Keeping Smart Cities Smart. ICIT.
 EXECUTIVE REPORT: SMART CITIES. Symantec>>>

HACKING SMART CITIES: CYBER ATTACKS BY
CYBERCRIMINALS AND CYBER TERRORISTS
 CYBER SECURITY PROBLEMS affecting cities with real
threats and possible cyber attacks that could have a
huge negative impact and disruptions:
 Lack of Cyber Security Testing
 • Poor or Nonexistent Security
 • Encryption Issues
 • Lack of Computer Emergency Response Teams
 • Large and Complex Attack Surfaces
 • Patch Deployment Issues
 • Insecure Legacy Systems
 • Simple Bugs with Huge Impact
 • Public Sector Issues
 • Lack of Cyber Attack Emergency Plans
 • Susceptibility to Denial of Service
 • Technology Vendors Who Impede Security Research
 RECOMMENDATIONS
 Adopt a Cybersecurity framework. Create a simple
checklist-type cyber security review. Check for proper
encryption, authentication, and authorization and make
sure the systems can be easily updated…
 Cesar Cerrudo,SECURING SMART CITIES, An Emerging US (and
World) Threat: CitiesWide Open to Cyber Attacks.
 Cyber war attacks will target city services and complex
technical infrastructure run by software inside.
 All technologies used by cities plus all the associated cyber
security problems, as at the left side, open to possible
cyber attacks.
 Each new city technology or system creates a new
opportunity for cyber attackers.
 The key technologies and systems making up the smart
city’s complex cyber attacks are:
 Traffic Control Systems
 • Smart Street Lighting
 • City Management Systems
 • Sensors
 • Public Data
 • Mobile Applications
 • Cloud and SaaS Solutions
 • Smart Grid
 • Public Transportation
 • Traffic and surveillance cameras
 • Social Media
 • Location-based Services
 • Public Safety systems
 Cesar Cerrudo, Keeping Smart Cities Smart. ICIT.

“SHOW TO THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE A SMART CITY”:
SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES GLOBAL INITIATIVE
 “Are you on the right track to become a Smart City? It is said that the future of the world will be decided by the quality of its
cities, and it is expected that by 2020 over 40 urban areas will turn into Smart Cities.
 However, the Smart Cities Global Initiative is concerned about the large variety of narrow technical visions, models and
approaches in which on many occasions “the push towards smart cities is being led by the wrong people –
technology companies with naïve visions and short term commercial goals–, while the architects, planners and scientists often
struggle to share their specific knowledge”.
 That is why this initiative is looking for megacities, municipalities, communities or brand new cities that are following a smart
community development strategy aiming to unify all the city systems, services, operations, activities, departments and
agencies as a sustainable smart urban ecosystem.
 The applications have to provide evidence that the city has potential capacity to take profit of the intelligent resources offered
through the Smart Cities Global Initiative. They also have to prove that their transformation into a Smart City has a strong
leadership and that it has strong intentions to invest intelligent and financial capital into smart and sustainable urban
development.
 The selected urban entities will be provided with intelligent property investment as well as sustainable city exclusive education
and training.
 You can submit your applications via e-mail to Executive Manager of EIS Smart City Global Initiative,
at smartcity@cytanet.com.cy. For further information on the Smart Sustainable Cities Global Initiative, consult the online brief
guide.”
 http://eu-smartcities.eu/content/show-world-you-are-smart-city; http://eu-smartcities.eu/blog/smart-cities-global-initiative
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-cities-benefits; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-city-commitment
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-cities-global-initiative; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-city-global-initiative
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable-city

THE WORLD CITIES PROJECT CUM THE SMART
SUSTAINABLE CITIES GLOBAL INITIATIVE
 To advance sustainable urbanization across the globe, we promote combining 3 smart urban initiatives:
 the EU’s World Cities project, which aims to promote long-term working relations between cities of the EU and
non-EU partner countries.
 The Smart Sustainable Cities Global Initiative advanced by the EIP on Smart Cities and Communities Open
Market.
 The World Bank Partnership for Smart and Sustainable Cities
 “World Cities is a project of the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) of the
European Commission in the framework of the European Parliament’s preparatory action to promote the
exchange of experience and best practice between the European Union and third countries on the theme of
territorial development with particular reference to urban development, urban-rural partnership and urban
cross-border cooperation. It involves selecting the pilot cities from such countries as China, India, Japan,
Canada, as well as Europe with a view to replicate “the European cities extensive experience in dealing with
urbanisation challenges, in developing smart, green, inclusive and mostly attractive cities with a high quality
of life”.
 Mostly, the initiative is expanding the EU-China smart and green city cooperation.
 It is assumed that the Cities of tomorrow have to deal with challenges in an integrated, holistic way by
adopting and applying a holistic model of development across different levels and sectors (social, economic,
environmental and energy, cultural and political components). Future cities need to adopt an integrated,
coherent and holistic approach (across sectors, governance levels and territories) in their vision of the future
to strive for and the foresight strategy to get their, unified planning and coordinated development, embracing
the social, economic, environmental and territorial dimensions of urban, national and regional development.

“BECOME A SMART NATION TO BUILD YOUR BRAND NAME:
SUSTAINABLE NATIONS GLOBAL INITIATIVE
 “Have you thought about intelligent global branding? Nowadays, not only companies compete to stand out,
but also countries have to struggle for businesses, tourists or international events.
 These days, there are 195 independent sovereign states, 60 independent areas and 5 disputed territories
and the world is looking for a radical transformation in all ways.
 In this context, every nation has its own brand which represents its international image, the way in which it is
globally perceived. Intelligent global branding results in attracting investment, facilitating trade and creating
internal pride.
 The Smart Nations Global Initiative is concerned with the inequality of modern states. For this reason, its
main objective is to foster the transition to smart, resilient and inclusive nations.
 This initiative aims to become the key driver of an instrumented, interconnected, intelligent, inclusive and
innovative world of the future.
 If you are committed to contribute to the sustainable development of your nation, country or state, you can
submit your applications via e-mail to Dr. Azamat Abdoullaev, Director of EIS Smart Nation Global Initiative,
at smartcity@cytanet.com.cy until the 15th of September.”
 http://eu-smartcities.eu/content/become-smart-nation-build-your-brand-name
 http://eu-smartcities.eu/blog/europe-sustainable-states-commitments
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-nations-global-initiative
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable-nations-global-initiative
 http://eu-smartcities.eu/blog/europe-sustainable-states-commitments-and-smart-nations-franchises


CREATING SMART SUSTAINABLE POWERS:
EUROPE, CHINA, USA, INDIA, RUSSIA, BRAZIL, ETC.
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/superpowers-
smart-states-global-initiative
 http://eu-smartcities.eu/blog/smart-superpowers-
projects-states-powers-great-powers-and-hyperpowers
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable-
nations-global-initiative-russia
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable-
nations-global-initiative-europe
 http://eu-smartcities.eu/content/become-smart-
nation-build-your-brand-name

SMART SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AT THE SCALE OF
TRANSNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COMMUNITIES
 Sustainable World, I-WORLD Platform
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-world-27173937
 i-Russia (Smart Russia and i-Government)
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/russia-26832583
 i-Europe (i-Europe Platform and Smart Big Europe, i-Germany, i-Britain, i-France, i-Italy, i-Spain)
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-europe; https://eu-smartcities.eu/forum/smart-green-europe;
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-green-europe
 i-Germany
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/igermany
 i-Britain
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/ibritain
 i-Cyprus (Smart Cyprus 2013-2020), offered for the national government
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-cyprus-2013-2020
 i-America (Smart USA and i-Government)
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-america
 i-China (Smart China and i-Government)
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-china
 i-Japan (Smart Japan Growth Strategy)
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-japan


WHO FOLLOWING OUR SMART AND SUSTAINABLE POLICY FRAMEWORK
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2010.Web. Last accessed 12 Feb. 2014. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/od2010/file-upload/2010/docs/39-05A34-
Presentation_OD_Smart_Cities_CEMR.pdf
 The Partnership for Smart and Sustainable Cities, http://www.urbanknowledge.org/smartsustainablecities.html
 FGSSC (2014). Smart sustainable cities – an analysisof definitions. Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities Working Group 1, International Telecommunications Union
(ITU). http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ssc/
 Hitachi, Smart Sustainable City Overview, Smart Cities: Hitachi, Hitachi,Web. Last accessed 9 Feb. 2014.
http://www.hitachi.com/products/smartcity/vision/concept/overview.html
 Aoun, Charbel, The Smart Sustainable City Cornerstone: Urban Efficiency, Schneider Electric, Web. Last accessed9 Feb. 2014. http://www2.schneider-
electric.com/documents/support/white-papers/smart-cities/998-1185469_smart-city-cornerstone-urban-efficiency.pdf
 Telefónica, WhatIs a Smart Sustainable City? Telefónica, Web. Last accessed9 Feb. 2014. http://smartcity-telefonica.com/?p=373
 Huawei,Brilliant Life Powered by SmartSustainable City,Huawei Ltd, Web. Last accessed 9 Feb. 2014. http://www.huawei.com/en/about-
huawei/publications/communicate/hw-079367.htm
 Current Activities For Smart Sustainable Cities,Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) Smart Town, ContributionNo. FG-SSC-0033, ITU FocusGroup
on Smart Sustainable Cities,Madrid, September 2013. Web. Last accessed 14 Feb 2014. http://ifa.itu.int/t/fg/ssc/docs/1309-Madrid/in/fg-ssc-0033-japan.doc
 Homeier, Ina, Smart Sustainable City Wien Initiative, City of Vienna,May 2013. Web. Last accessed 12 Feb. 2014.
http://www.impacts.org/euroconference/vienna2013/presentations/Vienna%20impacts%20smart%20city.pdf
 Comstock, Maggie, What Is a Smart Sustainable City and How Can a City Boost Its IQ? WorldBank Blogs– Sustainable Cities, 02 April 2012. Web. Lastaccessed12 Feb.
2014.http://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/what-is-a-smart-city-and-how-can-a-city-boost-its-iq
 Smart Sustainable City, BusinessDictionary, Web. Last accessed13 Feb. 2014. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/smart-city.html
 Smart Sustainable Cities & Smart Statistics, Governmentof Italy,ContributionNo. FG-SSC-0014,ITU FocusGroup on Smart Sustainable Cities,Turin,May 2013. Web.
Last accessed 14 Feb 2014. http://ifa.itu.int/t/fg/ssc/docs/1305-Turin/in/fg-ssc-0014-Italy.zip
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http://public.dhe.ibm.com/partnerworld/pub/smb/smarterplanet/forr_help_cios_und_smart_city_initiatives.pdf
 Innovative Future of Russia's Cities,Centerfor Smart Sustainable City Innovation – Ernst & Young, Web. Lastaccessed13 Feb. 2014.
http://www.ey.com/RU/en/Services/Specialty-Services/Smart-City-Innovation-Center
 Woods, Eric, andGartner, John, Smart Sustainable City Suppliers, Navigant Research,2013. Web. Last accessed 13 Feb. 2014. http://www.navigantresearch.com/wp-
assets/uploads/2013/07/LB-SCITS-13-Executive-Summary.pdf
 Toppeta, Donato, The Smart Sustainable City Vision:How Innovation and ICT Can BuildSmart, "liveable", Sustainable Cities, Think Innovation, Oct.2010. Web. Last
accessed 13 Feb. 2014.http://www.thinkinnovation.org/en/portfol/the-smart-city-vision-how-innovation-and-ict-can-build-smart-liveable-sustainable-cities-2-2/
 Definition of SmartCities – China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), Smart Sustainable City: terminologiesand definitions,2013,
http://www.ccsa.org.cn/workstation/project_disp.php?auto_id=4336 (in Chinese)
 Kramers, A., Hojer,M., Lovehagen, N., Wangel, J., Smart Sustainable Cities-Exploring ICTSolutions for reducedenergy use in cities, Environmental Modellingand
Software,Issue 56. January 2014. pp. 52-62
 Neapolis- SmartEco City. European Prototype for Smart Cities andCommunities. Leptos Group. http://www.neapolis.com
 S2CT 2015, International Conference on Smart Sustainable City Technologies, Toronto, Canada, October13–14, 2015; the EuropeanAlliance for Innovation,
http://s2ct.org/2015/show/home.

I-COMMUNITY CONSULTANTS AND DEVELOPERS
 Dr Azamat Abdoullaev, Director
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azamat_Abdoullaev
 EIS Encyclopedic Intelligent Systems Ltd (EU)
 EIS Encyclopedic Intelligent Systems Ltd (Moscow, Russia)
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/eis-ltd
Telefax: 357 25 561 883; Phone: + 357 99 683 849;
 E-mail: ontopaedia@gmail.com
 Internet Sites: http://iiisyla.livejournal.com
 ENCYCLOPEDIC INTELLIGENCE/SMART COMPUTING PLATFORM
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/encyclopedic-intelligence
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/encyclopedic-intelligence-24260973
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/encyclopedic-intelligence-global-marketing
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/encyclopedic-intelligence-big-science-and-technology
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/global-intelligence-26413485
 INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY AND SMART CITY RESOURCES
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/iworld-25498222; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/presentations
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smartworl-dabr; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-cities-28497022
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-cities-27402134 ; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/urban-europe
 Our TOMORROW’S WORLD CITIES PROJECTS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


TOMORROW’S WORLD CITIES: “SUSTAINABLE SMART
CITIES” INVESTMENT PLAN IN EUROPE
 Promoting Sustainable and Smart Urban Renewal Projects for EFSI Financing
 EIS: Sustainable Smart Cities Developments Promoter
 http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/sustainable-city; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/urban-europe
 Our future urban development consulting services address national, regional and local authorities committed
to the sustainable urban, regional and rural development investment policy, looking to finance integrated
developments in land and environment, transportation, energy, ICT, water, waste, building and housing,
green economy, industry, health, education, safety and security, etc.
 We support the EU cities with the conception, design and implementation of integrated sustainable smart
urban-rural strategies/action plans. The EU cities are cities from EU 28 Member States, Norway &
Switzerland, including city districts and boroughs, municipalities, towns, metropolitan areas and
agglomerations.
 Smart and Green Cities Integrated Projects are to capitalize on the “Smart Cities & Sustainable
Development” Investment Program under the Juncker Investment Plan, the European Fund for Strategic
Investments: http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-green-europe
 INTRODUCTION: Investment Plan for Europe
 The Investment Plan for Europe aims to revive investment in strategic projects around Europe to ensure that
money reaches the real economy. This should unlock additional investment of at least EUR 315bn over the
next three years. The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI).
 https://eu-smartcities.eu/forum/smart-green-europe; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smart-green-
europe; http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/future-world-cities-project-smart-sustainable-cities

THE WORLD’S CAPITALS PROJECT: A SMART SUSTAINABLE URBAN
STRATEGY FOR THE WORLD’S 100 LARGEST URBAN AREAS
 To advance and manage sustainable urban development and efficient service delivery, “clear and
 credible metrics for cities are essential, including those for basic service delivery, city resilience, GHG
emissions and energy intensity”, geography and demography, economy, finances, energy intensity and
resource efficiency, climate change vulnerability, infrastructure levels, health indicators, and social equity, as
the GCIF Core Indicators were adapted for the following city features:
 Economy; Energy; Emissions and pollution; Water, sanitation and waste management; Shelter; Governance;
Transportation; Education; Technology and Innovation; Health
 As emphasized, “the only path to sustainable development is through sustainable cities, while most of the
world’s media and political leadership focus on national and international geopolitical issues: the economic
crises in Europe, climate change, the Arab Spring, the “war on terror,” China’s ascendancy.” (World Bank, the
Partnership for Sustainable Cities).
 The EC and the World Bank are to be proposed to consider the world’s 100 largest urban areas, from Abidjan
to Hong Kong to London to Moscow to Rio De Janeiro to Singapore to Yangon as smart sustainable cities
pilots under the world future cities project initiative.
 To meet the future UN Post-2015 Global Development Goals, succeeding the Millennium Development Goals,
The World Capital Cities Project is to combine:
 1. The EU’s World Cities project, which aims to promote long-term working relations between cities of the EU
and non-EU partner countries.
 2. The Smart Sustainable Cities Global Initiative advanced by EIS Ltd and the EIP on Smart Cities and
Communities Open Market
 3. The World Bank Partnership for Smart and Sustainable Cities.

BIG BUSINESS FOLLOWING SSC POLICY AND PRACTICE
 The Smart Cities Council (SCC) envisions a world where digital technology and
intelligent design have been harnessed to create smart, sustainable cities with high-
quality living and high-quality jobs.
 Smart Cities Council includes leading global companies
 As Lead Partners:
 Allied Telesis, Alstom, Bechtel, Cisco, Cubic Transportation Systems, Enel,
 IBM, Itron, MasterCard, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Ooredoo,
 Qualcomm, S&C Electric, Schneider Electric, Verizon ...
 As Associate Partners:
 ABB, Alphinat, Apex CoVantage, Badger Meter, BehaviorMatrix, Bit Stew Systems,
Black & Veatch, CH2M, Civic Resource Group, Elster, Enevo, Entrigna, Hutchison
Kinrot, Imex Systems, Intel, K2 Geospatial, Neptune Technology Group, OSIsoft,
Saudi Telecom, Siemens, Silver Spring Networks, Space-Time Insight, Spire Metering
Technology, SunGard Public Sector, The Urban Institute, TROVE, Veolia and West
Monroe Partners.

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