Towards Sustainability: Smart Cities In The Egyptian Environment, How Much Smart To Be Smart?

Tarek Abou El Seoud
2019 Journal of Urban Research  
Egypt, as a developing country, is facing many environmental, social, and economic issues in its cities. Those issues are the challenges for The Egyptian government to achieve sustainability and improve inhabitants' quality of life in the future city's vision of the nation. The fourth cyber-physical revolution and the growing exponential innovations of information and communications technologies (ICT) were the catalysts for the Egyptian stakeholders to target the sustainable smart city concept
more » ... or the new future Egyptian cities generation . The research aims to characterize the smart concept for the Egyptian environment by proposing an ICT architecture for the smart city model within the Egyptian cities and highlight the innovative ICT that will affect the future performance of such smart cities. The research attempts also to identify the main Egyptian smart initiatives that would offer appropriate sustainable solutions and improve the quality of life of the Egyptian inhabitants . To achieve the research objectives the innovative ICT installation requirements were studied to propose a compatible ICT architecture for the future city structure and an interview for experts was statistically analyzed to determine the Smart city initiatives and smart component systems prioritization for the future generation Egyptian cities . The research concluded that there are no unique standards of the city smartness concept and a community requirements study must be considered before deciding the smart initiatives and the smart system's components to be installed . The research determines that nowadays mobility, infrastructure, and governance are the main smart initiatives of smartness for the Egyptian cities.
doi:10.21608/jur.2019.89065 fatcat:r6rfkotj3fffvkmbifjcalqgbq