Implementing ITU-T International Standards to Shape Smart Sustainable Cities: The Case of Singapore

FSTP-CONF-F921 - Compliance of audio-based navigation system for persons with vision impairment

YSTR-IDE - oneM2M-Industrial Domain Enablement

DSTR-DFSMR-Main recommendations

U4SSC - Case study - Air quality management in Southern California, USA

U4SSC - Case study - Smart Dubai Happiness Meter in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

U4SSC - Case study - Smart Dubai - Rashid - City Concierge

U4SSC - Case study - Unlocking the potential of trust-based AI for city science and smarter cities

QSTP-TEST-UE-MS - Guideline for general test procedure and specification for measurements of the LTE, 3G/2G user equipment/mobile stations (UE/MS) for over-the-air performance testing [Withdrawn]
Withdrawn and transferred to ITU-R for further enhancement

U4SSC - Snapshot - Valencia city, Spain

U4SSC - Verification Report - Valencia, Spain

U4SSC - Urban Mobility - Dubai: Mobile solutions for ordering taxis and other transportation services, 'E-hailing'

U4SSC - Factsheet - Valencia city, Spain

U4SSC deliverable Blockchain for smart sustainable cities

ITU Smart Sustainable Cities

FIGI - DFS - Security analysis of the KaiOS feature phone platform for DFS applications

FSTP.SS-OTA - Standardization survey for over-the-air updating in vehicles

U4SSC - Guidelines on tools and mechanisms to finance Smart Sustainable Cities projects

XSTR-SEC-AI - Guidelines for security management of using artificial intelligence technology

U4SSC 2023 - Compendium of practices on innovative financing for smart sustainable cities projects

Procurement guidelines for smart sustainable cities

JSTR-OPTR - Optimizing bit rates and transmission resolution by considering display characteristics and available bandwidth

Enabling digital transformation in smart sustainable cities - Master plan

U4SSC - Guide for smart and sustainable city leaders: Envisioning sustainable digital transformation

XSTR.ibc-cd - Guidelines for identity-based cryptosystems used for cross-domain secure communications

U4SSC - Case study - Dubai

U4SSC - Case study - Buenos Aires

Implementation of the ITU-T international standards for the sustainable management of electrical and electronic equipment: on the road to a circular economy in Argentina

YSTP.AIoT - Challenges of and guidelines to standardization on artificial intelligence of things

TR.x509ac4sc - A use case of X.509 Attribute Certificate for Supply Chain

UN Executive Briefing on unlocking the potential of virtual worlds and the metaverse for the Sustainable Development Goals

United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) Initiative Connecting Communities, Empowering People

Overview of convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain

Vehicle domain service - General information and use case definitions

Metric and evaluation methods for AI-enabled multimedia application computing power benchmark

Requirements and architecture for intelligent video surveillance algorithm-training systems

Extended producer responsibility - Guidelines for sustainable e-waste management

Air-assisted installation of optical fibre cables

Optical fibre cable network maintenance

Water detection in underground closures for the maintenance of optical fibre cable networks with optical monitoring system

Practical facilities available for the conduct of the work of SG17
Source: TSB
Study Questions: QALL/17

ITU-T X.1242 - Supplement on guidelines on countermeasures against short message service phishing and smishing attacks

Security framework and requirements for service function chaining based on software-defined networking

Protocol for time constraint Internet of things-based applications over software-defined networking

Supplement on Guidelines for developing a sustainable e-waste management system
Source: Editor
Study Questions: Q13/5

Draft Supplement on Guidelines for developing a sustainable e-waste management system
Source: Editor
Study Questions: Q13/5

Supplement on Guidelines for developing a sustainable e-waste management system
Source: Egypt, Uganda

New Appendix V - Provisional planning values for the fullband equipment impairment factor and the fullband packet loss robustness factor

Southwest Airlines is offering buyouts and extended leaves of absence to airport workers to avoid what it calls “overstaffing in certain locations,” which it blames on a shortage of new planes from Boeing.

The move on Monday comes as a hedge fund presses Southwest to increase profits and boost the stock price, which has fallen sharply since early 2021.

A Southwest spokesperson said the offers of “voluntary separation” are limited to 18 airports. The company declined to identify the airports or say how many jobs it hopes to eliminate.

All the targeted jobs are in ground operations, including customer service agents, baggage handlers and cargo workers. Pilots and flight attendants are not included in the buyout offer, the spokesperson said.

Southwest officials have said that the Dallas-based airline plans to end this year with 2,000 fewer workers than it started. That is after Southwest grew from 66,600 to nearly 75,000 employees last year. The figures count part-timers as one-half.

“Southwest has reduced overall capacity to meet demand with a constrained fleet due to aircraft delivery delays,” the company said in a statement. “Offering voluntary separation and extended time off to contract and noncontract employees, along with continued slowed hiring, will help us avert overstaffing in certain locations.”

Southwest had originally expected about 85 new Boeing 737 jets this year but has cut that number to 20 because of production problems at Boeing that began after a panel blew out of the side of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max during a flight in January.

The Southwest fleet consists solely of Boeing 737s, including the Max and older versions of the plane.

Starting in June, hedge fund Elliott Investment Management built an 11% stake in Southwest and pressed the airline to improve its financial performance. The two sides reached a truce last month to avoid a proxy fight, but Elliott won several seats on the Southwest board, which it can use to keep pressure on CEO Robert Jordan and other executives.

Even before Elliott, Southwest limited hiring and stopped flying to several airports to save money. It also announced plans to target premium travelers.

Southwest shares rose 3% Monday and are up 13% this year. That is far behind the 117% jump at Delta Air Lines and the 58% gain at United Airlines.

—David Koenig, AP Airlines Writer

The Vatican and Microsoft on Monday unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’s while helping the Holy See manage visitor flows and identify conservation problems.

Using 400,000 high-resolution digital photographs, taken with drones, cameras and lasers over four weeks when no one was in the basilica, the digital replica is going online alongside two new on-site exhibits to provide visitors—real and virtual—with an interactive experience.

“It is literally one of the most technologically advanced and sophisticated projects of its kind that has ever been pursued,” Microsoft’s president Brad Smith told a Vatican press conference.

The project has been launched ahead of the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee, a holy year in which more than 30 million pilgrims are expected to pass through the basilica’s Holy Door, on top of the 50,000 who visit on a normal day.

“Everyone, really everyone should feel welcome in this great house,” Pope Francis told Smith and members of the project’s development teams at an audience Monday.

The digital platform allows visitors to reserve entry times to the basilica, a novelty for one of the world’s most visited monuments that regularly has an hours-long line of tourists waiting to get in.

But the heart of the project is the creation of a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica through advanced photogrammetry and artificial intelligence that allows anyone to “visit” the church and learn about its history.

The ultra-precise 3D replica, developed in collaboration with digital preservation company Iconem, incorporates 22 petabytes of data—enough to fill five million DVDs—Smith said.

The images have already identified structural damage and signs of deterioration, such as missing mosaic pieces, cracks and fissures invisible to the naked eye, with a speed and precision far beyond human capabilities.

Francis has called for the ethical use of AI and used his annual World Message of Peace this year to urge an international treaty to regulate it, arguing that technology lacking human values of compassion, mercy, morality and forgiveness were too great.

On Monday, he thanked the Microsoft team and basilica workers responsible for the project and marveled at how modern technology was helping spread an ancient faith and preserve a piece of world patrimony, which celebrates the 400th anniversary of its consecration in 2026.

“This house of prayer for all peoples has been entrusted to us by those who have preceded us in faith and apostolic ministry,” he told Smith and the delegation. “Therefore, it is a gift and a task to care for it, in both a spiritual and material sense, even through the latest technologies.”

Smith declined to give a price tag for Microsoft’s investment in the project, saying only it was “substantial” and was borne of Francis’ initiative in 2018 to bring tech companies together to promote ethnically minded AI.

He said Microsoft had done similar AI projects at Mont Saint-Michel in France and Ancient Olympia, in Greece.

Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.

—Nicole Winfield, Associated Press