Measuring smart cities’ performance: Do smart cities benefit everyone?

In the longer term, the capacity to leverage the benefits of digital innovation for all will be critical to help cities rebound from the crisis and accelerate the transition to a new urban paradigm for a more sustainable and resilient future. [...] The OECD regional well-being work and the OECD web tool for Measuring the distance to the SDGs in regions and cities allow for assessing well-being levels and the achievement of SDGs where they matter, at the local level. [...] the smart city tools • Pillar 2: Indicators of the engagement of various stakeholders in building the smart city • Pillar 3: Indicators of the four core objectives of the smart city (mainly outcome indicators), namely well-being, inclusiveness, sustainability and resilience that are shaped by the smart city tools and engagement (from Pillar 1 and Pillar 2). [...] Pillar 1: Smart city tools The first pillar of the OECD Smart City Measurement Framework addresses the first component of the definition of smart cities, i.e. [...] The first step in the definition of Pillar 1 of the OECD Smart City Measurement Framework consists in identifying the needs of urban residents and what matters most to people in cities.