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perspective, cities need to have the right infrastructure in place so that they can recruit companies which would add
to the investment in the region and aid in job creation.
It’s also important to promote start-ups and innovation in cities to leverage the Smart City technology and create
open data platforms. This will also help to grow the innovation ecosystem and the start-up ecosystem that are
currently in those cities. It is important to show clear differences between social/economical connectivity and
technical connectivity.

In looking at the technical connectivity conception, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) defined a model
that considers connections mainly in collection systems (transducers, sensors, actuators and communication
networks), conceptual data warehouse and service applications for all normalized city devices and/or applications.
There are standard interconnectivity interfaces for devices and/or applications from third parties who have
interactions with cities. Consequently, we have connectivity or interconnectivity with devices, users and third parties
at the network telecommunications level (i.e. Wi-Fi), data warehouse level (data or metadata) and at the application
level (i.e. web services, open data, etc.), creating the concept and framework for the development of a smart city
within all of these elements.

Figure 2. ITU City Connectivity framework model

Report title: Connected City Blueprint
4 Issue Date: 15 December 2016 Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary.
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