Planning and Designing Smart Cities in Developing Nations (Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development) - Hardcover

Zoughbi, Saleem Gregory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1668435098 ISBN 13: 9781668435090

Publisher: IGI Global, 2021

Synopsis

As smart cities are rapidly developing, it is vital that they are built on a combination of support and active participation of self-decisive, independent, and aware citizens by ensuring strong human capital, social capital, and information and communications technology infrastructure. Due to this evolution across the globe, it is critical to examine how others are working to create smarter cities in order to learn and revolutionize the way cities are planned and executed.

Planning and Designing Smart Cities in Developing Nations explores smart city implementation in developing countries by highlighting the challenges and opportunities of smart cities and showcasing various developments and accomplishments and presents a framework to implement strategic plans for smart development. Covering topics such as smart technologies and social capital, it is ideal for policymakers, economic and development professionals, city planners and designers, government officials, academicians, professors, and students.

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About the Author

Saleem Zoughbi is an international advisor for ICT. He has been providing ‎‎technical assistance ‎and advisory services to over 30 countries. His focus is on development and has been assisting ‎governments on the strategic and policy levels on e-governance, smart cities, national strategies ‎and ICT development. He conducts consultancies for major consulting firms such as Booze, ‎PricewaterhouseCooper and others in technical missions and projects. He is active in ‎international community of e-governance, strategies and policies of smart governance, mobile ‎government, smart cities and smart sectors, and ICT for development. He previously held post of ‎ICT regional adviser in UN-ESCWA, and then moved to UNU IIST. Currently he is engaged in ‎Enterprise Architecture work with UN ESCAP. Recently he helped develop Change Management ‎and Capacity Building strategic plans for all ministries of Libya according to eLibya Strategy. He ‎is also the IEEE STC e-Gov committee secretary and officer in charge of e-Gov development ‎projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1668435098
• ISBN 13: 9781668435090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300