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United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC)

U4SSC is a UN initiative coordinated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU),
UN-Habitat and UNECE, and supported by 14 other UN Agencies and Programmes, including
CBD, ECLAC, FAO, UNESCO, UNDP, UNECA, UN-Women, UNEP, UNEP-FI, UNFCCC, UNIDO, UNU
EGOV, UNOP and WMO.

U4SSC is the global platform to advocate for public policies to encourage the use of ICTs to
facilitate and ease the transition to smart sustainable cities. Find out more…

These indicators are developed based on an international standard – Recommendation ITU-T
Y.4903/L.1603 ‘Key performance indicators for smart sustainable cities to assess the achievement of
sustainable development goals’.

These indicators have been developed to provide cities with a consistent and standardized method to
collect the necessary data to measure performance and progress with regard to:

• achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
• becoming a smarter city; and

• becoming a more sustainable city.

The U4SSC KPIs consist of 91 indicators. Each indicator forms part of a holistic view of a city’s
performance in three dimensions: Economy, Environment and Society and Culture. Each of these
dimensions provides a separate view of progress, and when reported together they provide a holistic
view of a smart sustainable city.

By providing a common set of metrics to benchmark a city’s performance, the indicators will also
enable cities to compare their performance with those of other cities, allowing for the dissemination
of best practices and setting the standards for progression in meeting the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) at the city level.

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