Shaping Smart Sustainable Cities for the New Urban Agenda

Shaping Smart Sustainable Cities for the New Urban Agenda is a side event fro Habitat III by UNECE, the UN-Habitat and the ITU.

The UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management, at its 75th session, mandated its secretariat to establish the “United Smart Cities” project and at its 76th session, on 14 December 2015, the Committee endorsed the globally accepted definition for Smart Sustainable Cities and the set of Smart Sustainable Cities Indicators that UNECE and ITU jointly developed. Smart Sustainable City indicators will be incorporated along with the other SDG indicators and will be updated when all the SDG indicators are adopted by the UN in March 2016.

This session will analyse how the internationally developed indicators formulated by UNECE and ITU will help countries surge forward in the smart sustainable city realm, thereby providing all countries with a benchmark for smart sustainable operations.

Shaping Smart Sustainable Cities for the New Urban Agenda

16:00 – 16:15 OPENING REMARKS

• Christian Friis Bach, Executive Secretary and Under-Secretary General, UNECE
• Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat
• Chaesub Lee, Director of Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU

16:15-17:20 SESSION 1 – Smart sustainable cities stakeholders roundtable

Moderator: Andre Dzikus, Coordinator, Urban Basic Services Branch and Acting Coordinator, Risk Reduction and Rehabilitation Branch, UN-Habitat

• Roman Mendle, Smart Cities Programme Manager, ICLEI World Secretariat
• Heimo Aichmaier, Chief Executive Officer, Austrian Mobile Power
• Matilda Gennvi Gustafsson, Sustainability Director, Ericsson
• Artem Sedov, Head, Smart City Laboratory , Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
• Zdenek Lokaj, Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Informatics, Czech Technical University
• Policy Unit 9
• Q&A

17:20-17:30 CONCLUSIONS

Andre Dzikus, Coordinator, Urban Basic Services Branch and Acting Coordinator, Risk Reduction and Rehabilitation Branch, UN-Habitat

For more information on the event, please contact:

Ms. Domenica Carriero

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Email: domenica.carriero@unece.org

Ms. Cristina Bueti

International Telecommunication Union

Email: cristina.bueti@itu.int

For more information on the event, please see the Meeting Agenda.