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Standards Development
Standardization in the field of smart and sustainable cities and communities, including the development of requirements, frameworks, guidance and supporting techniques and tools related to the achievement of sustainable development.
The scope includes resilience and disaster risk reduction, sustainability and sustainable mobility and transport, community infrastructure, climate change mitigation and adaptation, digitalization, and ICT and system aspects only as it pertains to and helps all cities and communities and their interested parties, in both rural and urban areas, become more sustainable and smarter. It also fosters the development of standards with electrotechnology to support the integration, interoperability and effectiveness of city systems.
It recognizes the strategic importance of collaborating with, building on and highlighting the work of existing ISO, IEC and Joint Technical Committees, to ensure a coherent set of standards.
JTC4 is responsible for the overall system aspects and infrastructure aspects of smart and sustainable cities and communities, as well as the coordination of the overall ISO/IEC work programme in this field including the schedule for standards development, taking into account the work of existing international standardization bodies and existing work of ISO and IEC technical committees”
As indicated in the rational section, the domain is cross cutting and important for ISO and IEC, an interdisciplinary approach is required to bring together all experts from the various diverse fields under one technical structure.
In addition, having a single technical structure composed of all the right expertise would help put ISO and IEC on the map as the global home of standardization for sustainable and smart cities, allows for more efficient communication and relationship with entities, city managers and leaders and other key stakeholders outside of ISO and IEC.
Overall, by establishing a single structure this should bring clarity, reduce fragmentation in technical work and will support ISO and IEC in delivering relevant and interoperable standards, in a way that optimizes the resources of experts, for the benefit of end-users.
Building on the existing standards portfolio, the JTC will produce standards that will support cities and the common challenges they face, such as maintaining economic growth, meeting the needs of increasing or aging populations, combatting climate change, and reducing use of resources – with sustainability and digitalization underpinning this – enabling cities to make a holistic decision on their future path to meet the aspirations of their citizens. It will also reinforce the existing coordination and cooperation with ITU.
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