The concept of smart city is a burgeoning strategy that is fast becoming popular as a strategy that will be able to mitigate the problems emanating from the uncontrolled population growth and urbanization. Academicians have turned their attention to the smart city concept, but an in-depth understanding of the concept is still required. There is a dearth of information on the concept and hence the phenomenon is not well understood. This study, therefore, aims to fill the gap in literature regarding smart cities and propose a framework for grasping the concept further. Based on exploratory studies on the concept of smart cities, this chapter focusses on nine key factors that will form the framework for smart cities and the smart cities initiatives. These nine critical factors include the management, organization governance, technology, people, policy, economy, natural environment, built environment, and the implications of big data on smart cities. These factors provide the basis for the development of an integrative framework that can be employed to examine the manner in which governments around the world, including Kenya, are envisioning smart city initiatives. The framework provides the agendas and directions for smart approaches that can be implemented in cities and a road map for the attainment of smart cities.
Use of ecommerce technologies have been on the rise in the recent past mostly because they provide access point to the world market competitively and offer a means to which efficiency in the way of conducting business is maintained. Whereas all those benefits sound good and entice so many users to venture into this technology, ecommerce technological trust and security services are on the weighing scale and these two factors are perceived to be the most important factors that affect users' intentions to use ecommerce technologies. Considering the rise of cyber-crime activities in the world and hearing of sad stories of cybercrime offenses particularly in developing countries, this chapter then investigates the challenges of ecommerce and how such challenges have posed serious setbacks in regard to the use and adoption of ecommerce and suggest solutions to curb this challenges for the betterment of global trade and efficiency in way business is conducted through such platform. The recommendations from this study will go a long way to inspires ecommerce technology developers to incorporate secure features that can ensure confidence of use from the users' side.
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