 The UK has established a global center of excellence in Smart Cities, the Future Cities Catapult in London. Among other activities, the Catapult works with cities, companies and the British Standards Institution to develop smart city standards. We recognize that other organizations are also developing standards internationally, including ITU, ISO and IEC. We recommend that Governments encourage their standards bodies to engage in this work, to bring different smart city standards work together, to support harmonization and development of a global market for urban innovation, and to facilitate learning between cities. We also recommend that Governments encourage their cities to engage in this process, so that standards develop fully meet their needs. Using ICT to address global challenges and opportunities  The European Union and Japan welcomes information sharing on the results of its development of communication robot technologies promoting the safety and security of watching-over and care services for elderly people and children, including the progress of the Japan-EU Cooperation project on Novel ICT Robotics based solutions for active and healthy aging  The United Kingdom invites active support for the WePROTECT Global Alliance to End Online Child Sexual Exploitation following the agreement to merge the WePROTECT initiative, which was launched by the UK in 2014 to protect children online, and the Global Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Online, which is led by the USA and the EU. The mission of the WePROTECT Global Alliance will be to empower everyone with a responsibility to protect children online to identify and protect victims, to remove child sexual abuse material from the Internet, and to strengthen cooperation to track down the perpetrators of this abuse all over the world.  The European Union welcomes global cooperation concerning open digital solutions addressing the ageing populations, including sharing of good practices, innovative solutions and socio-economic evidence of impact.  Japan welcomes collaboration to address global issues such as disaster risk reduction.  The United Kingdom welcomes collaboration to enable and enhance Internet connectivity globally, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa which is the region with the lowest Internet penetration rate in the world. The UK welcomes all collaboration which contributes towards the Global Goal target to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in the least developed countries by 2020.  Canada welcomes collaboration on the research program “Information and Networks in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (INASSA)” to establish eight research networks spread across Low Income, and DFID Priority, Countries. These networks will work to build capacity and generate new evidence on the positive and negative impacts of increasing levels of access to internet and mobile technologies in Low Income Countries (LICs). 5