By Cyber Era NG Correspondent
In 2022, the Russian capital city intends to claim the gold certificate of “smart” city requirements, and subsequently the platinum ISO standard., the head of Moscow’s Department of Information Technologies, Eduard Lysenko announced at the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) online forum.
“The work within the framework of a big international programme on sustainable development goals gives an opportunity to increase the efficiency of the city authority’s policies, “ – Mr. Lysenko believes. “Achieving the SDGs requires an effort of the whole urban community – public, private, scientific, non-profit and public sectors to create a sustainable city of the future”.
Certificates of compliance with international standards reflect the effectiveness of implementation of smart technologies to improve the quality of life of residents of a particular city. The experts evaluate about 184 indicators in the main branches of urban economy and convenience of digital services.
In 2021, the capital of Russia for the first time in the history of the World Council on City Data (WCCD) has received two certificates at once – ISO 37120 and ISO 37122. The first of them is the international standard, which reflects the main indicators of the quality of life and provision of urban services. With it Moscow joined the league of certified cities – among them London, Dubai, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Sydney and Toronto. Now it is perceived by international rating agencies and experts as a city with open data by international standards. The certificate allowed Moscow to immediately qualify for ISO 37122 (“Sustainable Cities and Communities – Indicators for the Smart City”), the standard for smart cities. The 37122 standard was approved quite recently, and the Russian metropolis successfully passed certification according to it among the first 10 cities in the world.
“The more comfortable, convenient and seamless the interaction of residents with the city is, the more competitive Moscow will be at the national and in the international level,” says Lysenko.
The WCCD experts fairly evaluated the work of the Moscow authorities in implementing the Smart City technologies. In 2021, 91 per cent of Muscovites already use the city online services, and mobile internet in the city is 2-4 times cheaper than in London and 6-9 times cheaper than in New York. In the Russian capital, there are more than 50 thousand IT companies and about 620 thousand dedicated professionals, and the digital ecosystem covers almost all sectors of the urban economy: education, housing and utilities, healthcare, security and transport. Already 40 per cent of the city services of Moscow use the algorithms of artificial intelligence, 380 types of services have been translated into the electronic format, 200 of them exist now exclusively in the electronic form.
In the coming years, Moscow plans to introduce end-to-end digital technologies to improve itself as a Smart City: in urban systems will develop artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, Internet of things, neuro-interfaces, 3D modeling and printing, virtual reality and 5G technologies.
