ITU-SUDACAD Regional Forum on Internet of Things for Development of Smart and Sustainable Cities in Arab Region

Khartoum, Sudan 13-14 Dec 2017

Eng Mustafa Al MahdiITU Arab Regional OfficeMustafa-Ahmed.Al-Mahdi@itu.int

ITU Works and Activities on Smart Sustainable Cites & IoT

Smart Sustainable City and IoTDefinitions

Urbanisation Trends and

Challenges in the Arab Region

Smart Sustainable

Cities Transformation models & SSC Initiatives in

the Arab States

ICT Roadmap for SSCs in the Arab Region

ITU works on SSC & IoT

Agenda

Smart Sustainable City and IoTDefinitions

Urbanisation Trends and

Challenges in the Arab Region

Smart Sustainable

Cities Transformation models

& SSC Initiatives in

the Arab States

ICT Roadmap for SSCs in the Arab Region

ITU works on SSC & IoT

Internet of Things (IoT):

ITU define Internet of things (IoT) as a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and

communication technologies [ITU-T Y.2060]

Urbanisation Trends and

Challenges in the Arab Region

Smart Sustainable

City and IoTDefinitions

Smart Sustainable

Cities Transformation models &

SSC Initiatives in

the Arab States

ICT Roadmap for SSCs in the Arab Region

ITU works on SSC & IoT

Sources: UNHABITAT

Trends in Urban Population in the Arab States

• The average urban growth rate of approximately 2.2% per annum

• The next decade is likely to see a growth in urban population of 55 million or 15%

• There could be more than 55 cities of 1 Million more inhabitants across the region by 2025

Urbanization is driven by economic development, migration to oil-rich countries, drought and conflict (importance varying by sub-region). In 2014 there were 14.1 million refugees, 5.1 million internally displaced people ,

and 15 million international (economic) migrants Several primary cities have become extended metropolitan regions, some are actual

or emerging mega-urban regions with complex issues of regional-wide urban governance, authority conflicts and governance voids

Highly-centralized government modalities weaken relationships between citizens and local government

Affordable housing shortage (speculatively escalating land prices, cumbersome and expensive property registration and limited access to housing finance)

Urban informal settlements in some part of the Arab Region Security of urban water and food insecurity are key defining social problems Youth bulge (60% of population below 25 years) and unemployment rates Marginalisation and poverty induced by lack of mobility have fuelled recent political

polarisation in the region Internal trade is underutilized - need for greater intra-Arab cooperation

Sources: UNHABITAT

Urbanisation Challenges in the Arab Region

Smart Sustainable

Cities Transformation models

& SSC Initiatives

in the Arab States

Smart Sustainable City

and IoTDefinitions

Urbanisation Trends and

Challenges in the Arab Region

ICT Roadmap for SSCs in the Arab Region

ITU works on SSC & IoT

Smart Sustainable Cities Transformation models

There are two common

transformation models that are

being used to create smart and

sustainable cities (SSC). The

Greenfield model that seeks to

create SSC from scratch whereas the

Brownfield model seeks to crate SSC

through modification of the old

cities.

Source: Ibrahim, M., Al-Nasrawi, S., El-Zaart, A. & Adams, C. (2015). Challenges facing E-Government and Smart Sustainable City: An Arab Region Perspective. 15th European Conference

on e-Government, ECEG, pp. 369-404

Arab Countries with SSC Initiatives

10 out of 22 Arab countries have embraced the

concept of smart and sustainable cities and have a

SSC initiative. Some of the key challenges

identified include (Government Summit, 2015):

a) Inadequate sustainable financial investment

in SSC projects

b) Difficulty in citizen adjustment to new ways of

accessing services.

c) Coordination and integration between public,

private and civil bodies for the purpose of

making a city function as one organism in an

efficient and effective manner.

d) Inadequate ICT infrastructure; technological

obsolescence; and poor inter- and intra-

system interoperability.

e) Political instability and high rate of youth

unemployment.

ICT Roadmap for SSCs in the

Arab Region

Smart Sustainable City

and IoTDefinitions

Urbanisation Trends and

Challenges in the Arab Region

Smart Sustainable

Cities Transformatio

n models & SSC Initiatives

in the Arab States

ITU works on SSC & IoT

ICT roadmap for SSCs in the Arab Region

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Planning

Layingfoundations

Under-groundInfra-structure

Metrorail

RoadCon-struction

BuildingsCon-struction

Habitationand use

KPIs andmonitoring

ProjectManagementtools

Mapping and Designtools

Monitoringsystems

Controlsystems

Mapping,Design andMonit-oringsystems

Control,Monitoringand Communicationssystems

Applications,Control,Monitoringand Communicationssystems

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Planning

Layingfoundations

Under-groundInfra-structure

Metrorail

RoadCon-struction

BuildingsCon-struction

Habitationand use

KPIs andmonitoring

ProjectManagementtools

Mapping and Designtools

Monitoringsystems

Controlsystems

Mapping,Design andMonit-oringsystems

Control,Monitoringand Communicationssystems

Applications,Control,Monitoringand Communicationssystems

Gathering Data

ICT roadmap for SSCs in the Arab Region - Gathering KPIs

SSC- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)You cannot manage what you cannot measure!

SSC ServicesImproving sustainability and quality of life

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Smart Waste Smart Water

Health care Smart Energy

Smart Transport

SUSTAINABILITY

AND QUALITY OF

LIFE

Smart Education Smart Building

Smart Sustainable Cities: A Six Step Transition Cycle

Roadmap for Arab Countries towards Smart Sustainable Development

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• create informed society

• Invest in tools and connectivity for universal access

• Improve innovation, accountability & Transparency,

•Build ICT capacitythrough training, legal and institutionalframework

Integrate ICT in National Strategic

Plans

Adopt Open Data Polices

and Practices

PromoteKnowledge

sharing

Build ICT Infrastructure

Smart Sustainable City

and IoTDefinitions

Urbanisation Trends and

Challenges in the Arab Region

Smart Sustainable

Cities Transformatio

n models & SSC Initiatives

in the Arab States

ICT Roadmap for SSCs in the Arab Region

ITU works on SSC &

IoT

ITU-T, Smart Sustainable Cities at a Glance

Improving the energy efficiency

Operation and transparency of the urban infrastructure

Resilience of road networks Efficiency of water distribution

systems Wastewater management Security Other services

More info, please visit: http://wftp3.itu.int/pub/epub_shared/TSB/ITUT-Tech-Report-Specs/2016/en/flipviewerxpress.html

ITU & IoT

2011201020072005

Seminal report published by ITU

Focus Group on M2M Service Layer started and

completed its work in 2013

Tags and USN standardization started

Coordination activity on IoT; Global Standards Initiative

20152012 - 2015

Foundational standard on IoT was adopted (ITU-T

Y.2060) and series of Continua

e-health wearables / personal health device

specifications become ITU standard – ITU-T H.810

New ITU-T Study Group 20 created "IoT and smart cities

and communities"

Responsible for

international standards to

enable the coordinated

development of IoT

technologies, including

M2M communications

and ubiquitous sensor

networks

Q1/20

Research and

emerging

technologies

including

terminology

and definitions

WP1/20

Internet of

Things (IoT)

WP2/20

Smart Cities and

Communities

ITUITU-T Study Group 20: IoT and its applications including smart cities and communities (SC&C)

JCA – IoT and

SC&C

Coordination across ITU-T SGs,

ITU-R and ITU-D

Cooperation with external bodies

working in the field of IoT & SCC

Visible contact point on IoT and

SC&C activities

ITU-T SG20 Current Key topics

Common terminology for IoT and SC&C

Consideration on end user adoption of IoT

IPv6

Research and emerging technologies related to IoT and SC&C

General requirements and capabilities of IoT applications and services

Frameworks and functional architectures of IoT to support networks and gateway

Specific IoT services covering transportation safety services, e-health services and so on

IoT based smart greenhouse, smart farming, smart manufacturing and Big Data issues

Security, trust and privacy protection in IoT

SC&C related ecosystem, applications, services and use cases

Standards that are directly related to SC&C with focus on:

Urban planning Energy Waterr Mobility Logistic

stic Healthcare E-government Education Transport

Open Data

Spatio-temporal modeling for SC&C

Integrated sensing & management for Smart Sustainable Cities

Research and emerging technologies including terminology and definitions

Internet of Things (IoT)

Smart cities and Communities (SC&C)

Flipbook on Unleashing the potential of the

Internet of Things

Publications, Events & Projects on IoT and Smart Cities

Flipbook on Shaping

smarter and more

sustainable cities:

Striving for Sustainable

Development Goals

Manizales

Montevideo

and many others…

Dubai

Singapore

Valencia

Buenos Aires

Montevideo Declaration

towards Habitat III

United for Smart Sustainable Cities

(U4SSC) – new UN Initiative!

U4SSC is a global platform for

smart city stakeholders which

advocates for public policy to

encourage the use of ICTs to

facilitate the transition to

smart sustainable cities.

Smart governance

Smart people

Smart economy

JOIN us now!

Connecting Cities and Communities

Enhancing Innovation & Participation

Smart living

Smart mobility

Smart environment

Urban planning

Policy, standards & regulation

Key performance indicators

Setting the Framework

A Virtual Meeting every month!

WG

WG

WG

Co-Chairmen: H.E. Ms Daiva Matoniene, Vice

Minister of Environment (Lithuania) Nasser Saleh Al Marzouqi, Chairman,

ITU-T SG20 Secretariat:Contact: u4ssc@itu.int

ICT solutions towards attainment of the UN 17 SDGs (SC&C)

ITU had developed a matrix for The

World Summit on the Information

Society (WSIS) actions and SDGs

(Click Here)

Transformative ICT solutions can deliver smart buildings

with substantially reduced energy consumption and CO2

emissions while relying on decentralized micro-grids to

increase community resilience. ICT can also support multi-

stakeholder financing, by reaching out to a stakeholders.

New! Q 1/2 Creating the smart cities and society: Employing ICTs for sustainable social and economic development (2018-2021)

Question 1/2: Creating the smart society: Social and economic development through ICT applications (2014-2017)

ITU Arab Regional Initiative for 2018-2021(SC&C)

ARB4: Internet of things, smart cities and

big data

Objective:

To raise and spread awareness of the importance of future challenges

in the era of Internet of things (IoT) and big data, and how to address

such challenges; establish regulatory frameworks and take measures to

help cope with the rapid changes in the field of telecommunications

and information technology; and work to ensure the transition to smart

cities and communities (SCCs).

Expected results

Assisting countries to:

1) Formulate strategic and operational plans and regulatory frameworks to cope with IoT and big data technology and formulate a road map for

the Arab region for the transition to SCCs by developing the telecommunication infrastructure to deliver the broadband services to support

their various applications and services

2) Promote technical cooperation and the exchange of expertise between the Arab countries in the area of IoT, big data and SCCs, study the

impact thereof, whether positive or negative, and take advantage of global experience

3) Organize a high-level forum on the IoT and big data to discuss the main challenges, such as security, privacy and system compatibility, and

the most prominent solutions, including digital object architecture; invite experts from industry to address the forum, and hold a side meeting

on the fringes of the forum with industry and the private sector

4) Get access to key studies, research and expertise on the IoT and smart cities, including big data for Arab States, on a page devoted to the

initiative on the website of the Arab Regional Office, and to help those Arab States that so wish to obtain advice in this area

5) Build Arab capacities in the use of big data as a supplementary or alternative method and low-cost resource for measuring Sustainable

Development Goal (SDG) indicators, while enhancing the capacities of stakeholders to implement and analyse big data to measure key

development indicators

6) Construct secure infrastructures to store the enormous amounts of data needed to create a smart environment

7) Identify and make use of existing centres of excellence and research and study centres in the Arab States to provide experts and expertise in

the areas of the initiative; enter into cooperative partnerships and agreements to help raise the level of availability of broadband services in the

Arab States; and use IoT and big data for development, formulate smart city indicators and measure progress on a regular basis.

ITU Publications and assistance on SSC & IoT

Developed many technical reports on SSC (Click here); Developed a set of KPI to be used be countries to assess their

smart city projects (Click here). Developed a ICT Roadmap for the Transition to Smart

Sustainable Cities in the Arab region ITU-T SG20 approved many recommendations Developed a Strategic Plan on SSC- Djibouti Iroly Project

Thank you

Eng Mustafa Al MahdiITU Arab Regional OfficeMustafa-Ahmed.Al-Mahdi@itu.int