Top 10 Quick-Win Smart City Services for Cairo Governorate : Estimated Budgets and Actions
Cairo, the biggest mega city in African continent and entire Arab world, has suffered from wide range of city issues including healthcare, public security, environment, transportation, education, information technology (IT) infrastructure, etc. Sma...
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Format: | Policy Note |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/631741549912875903/Top-10-quick-win-smart-city-services-for-Cairo-governorate-estimated-budgets-and-actions-final-policy-note http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31287 |
Summary: | Cairo, the biggest mega city in African
continent and entire Arab world, has suffered from wide
range of city issues including healthcare, public security,
environment, transportation, education, information
technology (IT) infrastructure, etc. Smart city solutions
and services can be an effective tool to alleviate the
problems of cities and increase the welfare of Cairo
citizens. The current policy note includes the quick-win
projects with budgets and actions for smart Cairo, strategy
framework and key success factors for the actions with
milestones, questionnaire survey results with smart city
focus, action plans categorized by quick-win, midterm,
long-term projects reflecting human resources, business,
technology, process, information, governance, social,
demographical, city specific, and cultural aspects. With
more details, action plans of top 10 quick-win projects for
smart Cairo are as follows; (1) capacity building for
healthcare services with hospital information system (HIS),
(2) integrated smart closed-circuit television (CCTV) system
design and pilot implementation, (3) solid waste management
design and pilot project, (4) emission test system and
database for vehicles, (5) redesign Cairo traffic flow and
public transportation, (6) T-money card (transportation
payment card), (7) call taxi service for disabled people,
(8) e-learning systems against illiteracy in local areas,
(9) cloud based software defined data center (SDDC) for
smart city services, and (10) citizen service center
innovation (one-stop service). |
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