Reference framework for integrated management of an SSC
The U4SSC developed Reference framework for integrated management of an SSC supports cities in identifying strategic, operational, and connectivity needs for integrated Smart Sustainable City management. It covers basic principles, critical success factors, risks, and a high-level methodology for urban digital infrastructure implementation. It also addresses GovStack Initiative’s Building Blocks alignment, transformation elements, and city technicians’ needs to assess digital transformation and fulfill citizens’ demands while adhering to regulatory requirements.
Published in July 2023
Procurement guidelines for smart sustainable cities
The Guidelines support city officials and their collaborators to embrace digital commercial approaches that support achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By looking more broadly and holistically across the full public spending lifecycle of digital transformation, the Guidelines support improving the well-being of our people and our planet, today and for future generations. This includes focusing relentlessly on users, and delivering outcomes that address the problems that get in the way of meeting users’ needs. Achieving this means leveraging smart and sustainable public procurement to improve public policy, governance, transparency, and accountability.
Published in May 2023
Compendium of practices on innovative financing for smart sustainable cities projects
The compendium provides a practical insight on the types of projects that can improve sustainability and smartness of a city, combined with ideas on how they can be financed. Given the focus on financing in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, innovative financing of urban development projects is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally.
Published in January 2023
Smart tourism: A path to more secure and resilient destinations
This report is oriented towards demonstrating how technologies and the process of digitization are powerful tools for moving towards a tourism industry capable of ensuring its resilience, competitiveness, and sustainability in any scenario.
Published in October 2022
Redefining smart city platforms: Setting the stage for Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms
This report provides guidance to governments and cities at all levels – with a focus on the local and regional – on setting up smart city platforms, as well as on procuring the requisite elements for building them. It also illustrates the current state of the art of interoperable smart city platforms, and provides recommendations for technical specifications.
Published in September 2022
Smart public health emergency management and ICT implementations
This report on Smart public health emergency management and ICT implementations explores the context of public health and the importance of active surveillance mechanisms in the urban ecosystem to enable emerging communications for public health disasters and the incorporation of IoT, AI and data-driven frameworks to provide timely responses to epidemics and pandemics, while implementing generic public health operational processes derived from the methodologies adopted for past crises.
Published in December 2021
Compendium of survey results on integrated digital solutions for city platforms around the world
This Compendium of survey results on integrated digital solutions for city platforms around the world presents the experience of cities, communities and municipalities participating in the U4SSC initiative in developing their smart city strategies, the governance of smart projects, and the principal role of a smart city platform in contributing to improving the lives of their citizens.
Published in December 2021
Digital solutions for integrated city management and use cases
This report on Digital solutions for integrated city management and use cases provides a global perspective on how city platforms facilitate more efficient and effective control of public infrastructure and services, improve economic efficiencies, enable rapid development of new or complex services and play a critical role in the overall digital transformation of urban areas. An accompanying Compendium has also been published, which underscores the survey results provided by cities that have collaborated describing their transformation experience through the use of city platforms.
Published in December 2021