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1 Introduction

1.1 Background

While developing connectivity plans, cities have the responsibility to ensure that it is equitable, accessible,
consumable and useful to the diverse constituent groups that cities represent. Cities must structure connectivity
plans, their benefits and value propositions around a horizon that various stakeholders can understand.

Cities face several constraints (including land availability, population growth, revenues and resources) but must also
look at ways to facilitate improvements in the citizens’ and visitors’ standard of living. Therefore, it is not just about
technology, but also about the management framework supporting the connectivity technologies.

For cities that are just beginning to embark on their citywide connectivity deployments, the key challenges are based
on understanding how to handle inevitable technology changes and the viable revenue models for public-private
partnership. Even for cities that have done some deployments in the past, there is a need to validate technology
roadmaps and business models.
The cities must cater to different scenarios – the backup plan for data versus managing security and high definition
video streaming for police and transport, requires different capabilities. All these different cases require different
levels of connectivity. Therefore, cities need to figure out how all of this ties together.
It is also important to recognize that various cities are at the different ends of the development spectrum and there
are differences in social, economic and political frameworks.
The Connected City Advisory Board (CCAB) was created to tackle the challenges previously described, and to develop,
share and promote thought-leadership and practical framework for the social and economic development and
sustainable operation of the Connected City Ecosystem.
It’s a unique platform for city managers and CIOs to knowledge-share challenges and opportunities in the
development and execution of the Smart City, establish best practices and determine a strategy to leverage
public-private partnerships.
The membership of the CCAB consists of a group of city CIOs and senior city and government officials along with
industry experts and members of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).
The guiding principles of the group are to address and reduce the digital division and ensure digital equality through
accessible and universal Internet connectivity, improve the quality of life of residents through hyper-connectivity and
establish and grow Smart City’s partnerships to increase shared knowledge and informed decision making.

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