African Smart Cities Strategies for Agenda 2063

Slavova, Mira; Okwechime, Ekene

doi:10.1080/23322373.2016.1175266

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“…Figures 6-9 show the modernist architectural language adopted by Smart Cities to support a heavy branding by competing companies. These new Smart City towns are part of the long history of New Towns created as part of the modernist tradition [64]. This tradition, with its roots in Le Corbusier's Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) movement, aimed to start from a clean slate and use modern high rise and freeway architecture to create a new kind of urban experience.…”

Section: Dichotomy Between Bringing Smart Technology To Old Cities Ormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These values provide a focus for the Smart City to address the issues of urbanization [16,18,19] and to welcome urbanization as an essential condition for growth [71]. These values also allow policy-makers to distinguish between different types of cities and different urban fabrics and to highlight the need for different developmental agendas [57,64]. This approach is far from the "one-size fits all, modernist model presented by Smart City suppliers, suggesting that smart infrastructure, as an isolated item, places an additional financial burden on the city's governing bodies despite most cities struggling to find finance for their multiple socio-economic problems [65].…”

Section: Creating a Smart City Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Redefining the Smart City: Culture, Metabolism and Governance

2018

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Introducing a New Transdisciplinary JournalThe concept of a smart city includes a high degree of information technology integration, but goes beyond the use of ICT for better resource use and less emissions. It means smarter urban transport networks, upgraded water supply and waste disposal facilities, and more efficient ways to light and heat buildings. It also encompasses a more interactive and responsive city administration and safer public spaces, and meets the needs of an ageing population. To speed up the deployment of these solutions, in July 2012 the European Commission has initiated the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Smart Cities and Communities that will bring together European cities, industry leaders, and representatives of civil society to smarten up Europe's urban areas. 370 commitments (from more than 3000 partners) have been received to fund and develop smart solutions in the areas of energy, ICT, and transport for making our cities more attractive and creating business opportunities. The reliance of society on the use of ICT devices and systems is increasing, with over 8% of all electricity consumption and 4% of all CO 2 emissions (also, one must consider that TV and media that are now translated onto ICT devices and systems). Energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions from expanding ICT use are unsustainable and will impact heavily on future climate change. Communications consumes significantly more energy per bit of information than any logical calculation inside an ICT system.On the other hand, the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) scenario foresees that an ever-increasing number of smart, mobile, sensing, and communicating devices will be dispersed into ordinary appliances and tools of common use. To meet the performances of foreseeable energy harvester generators, the amount of power required by such devices needs to be significantly reduced. Energy consumption could be minimized if smart communications minimizing the amount of data being transported are used over other techniques. The development and fast deployment of new communications systems with low energy consumption per bit are essential to circumvent the enormous increase in data volume from cloud, and especially high definition video.Whilst the direct contribution to CO 2 emission from ICT devices might be small, ICT devices have the potential to contribute significantly to the reduction of CO 2 in transportation, heating and cooling, building control, and manufacturing in a new vision of the city.For autonomous systems, significant improvements in energy harvesting and energy storage at a small scale would also provide disruptive solutions to the use of smart sensors for a host of applications in personalized healthcare, environmental monitoring, industrial monitoring, security, and transportation. Such applications have the potential for significant reductions in energy

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Section: Dichotomy Between Bringing Smart Technology To Old Cities Ormentioning

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Section: Creating a Smart City Frameworkmentioning

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Redefining the Smart City: Culture, Metabolism and Governance

2018

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“…Slavova and Okwechime [82] examined the broader transformative processes taking place in Africa and developed a vision of the future African cities. The authors showed the alignment of critical aspects of the smart city concept with the African Union's Agenda 2063.…”

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A Review of Technical Standards for Smart Cities

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Smart cities employ technology and data to increase efficiencies, economic development, sustainability, and life quality for citizens in urban areas. Inevitably, clean technologies promote smart cities development including for energy, transportation and health. The smart city concept is ambitious and is being refined with standards. Standards are used to help with regulating how smart cities function and contributing to define a smart city. Smart cities must be officially recognized by national and international authorities and organizations in order to promote societal advancement. There are many research and review articles on smart cities. However, technical standards are seldom discussed in the current literature. This review firstly presents the study of smart city definitions and domain. The well-known smart city standards will be presented to better recognize the smart city concept. Well-defined standards allow meaningful comparisons among smart cities implementation. How smart city initiatives make a city smarter and improve the quality of life will be discussed for various countries. This review highlights that technical standards are important for smart cities implementation. This paper serves as a guide to the most recent developments of smart cities standards.

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“…Several African and South American cities have also started to work towards designing smart and modern transportation systems [98,99]. The Benin City transportation systems were upgraded with an advanced ITS system that assesses traffic flow in real time [100].…”

Section: Smart Transportation Approaches Advances and Applicationsmentioning

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“…The previous studies on the ensuring of public involvement are not reliable [58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]. Despite the emerging recognition that an organized involvement of stakeholders should become central to all the relevant features of smart transportation studies [70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84], limited attention has been paid to encouraging different stakeholders in all critical stages of smart city agendas [85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102]. Furthermore, visions are composed of several vital drivers and not all the key drivers are of similar desirability [115] and reflecting nuances of value-laden perspectives by separating different clusters of desirability makes i...…”

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Smart Cities in Turkey: Approaches, Advances and Applications with Greater Consideration for Future Urban Transport Development

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2019

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The smart city transport concept is viewed as a future vision aiming to undertake investigations on the urban planning process and to construct policy-pathways for achieving future targets. Therefore, this paper sets out three visions for the year 2035 which bring about a radical change in the level of green transport systems (often called walking, cycling, and public transport) in Turkish urban areas. A participatory visioning technique was structured according to a three-stage technique: (i) Extensive online comprehensive survey, in which potential transport measures were researched for their relevance in promoting smart transport systems in future Turkish urban areas; (ii) semi-structured interviews, where transport strategy suggestions were developed in the context of the possible imaginary urban areas and their associated contextual description of the imaginary urban areas for each vision; (iii) participatory workshops, where an innovative method was developed to explore various creative future choices and alternatives. Overall, this paper indicates that the content of the future smart transport visions was reasonable, but such visions need a considerable degree of consensus and radical approaches for tackling them. The findings offer invaluable insights to researchers inquiring about the smart transport field, and policy-makers considering applying those into practice in their local urban areas.

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African Smart Cities Strategies for Agenda 2063

Cited by 48 publications

References 27 publications

Redefining the Smart City: Culture, Metabolism and Governance

Redefining the Smart City: Culture, Metabolism and Governance

A Review of Technical Standards for Smart Cities

Smart Cities in Turkey: Approaches, Advances and Applications with Greater Consideration for Future Urban Transport Development

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