Digital Foundations: The Path to People-Centred Smart Cities
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Rapid urbanisation and climate change hinder the ability of cities to effectively plan and invest in essential services and infrastructure. This is true for both megacities and rapidly growing intermediary cities. In response, many local governments are turning to digital solutions to fill critical data gaps, advance climate action and enhance the accessibility, affordability and reliability of essential urban services.
This report takes stock of the trends shaping smart city deployments in Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia. The opportunity for mobile operators is quantified through total addressable market forecasts for eight countries – Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan – and across regions. The report profiles leading use cases, highlights mobile operator engagement and positioning, and reviews in detail the policy and technology context.
GSMA Intelligence analysts (Sayali Borole and Kenechi Okeleke) contributed to this report by GSMA Mobile for Development – Digital Utilities (Kinya Mugaine, Zach White and George Kibala Bauer).
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