Abstract
The technological progress in recent years has allowed to
produce sensors, on macroscopic and microscopic scales,
that are now essential to ubiquitous computing. This
paradigm has made the concept of smart cities a reality
that is now in synchrony with the needs and requirements
for living in this era. Whether it concerns commuters in
public transportations or users of existential services
such as hospitals, the implementation of smart cities is
equally important in developed countries than in the
least developed countries. Unfortunately, in the latter,
sensors and the associated technologies are not readily
available to implement smart cities. It is therefore
necessary to identify surrogate ways of sensing the
ambient environment. In this position paper, we discuss
the situation in least developed countries and the
obstacles to common implementations of smart cities. We
also provide a preliminary enumeration of how
mobile-phones with SMS-based services and the cultural
model can be leveraged to build smart cities in such
urban technological deserts
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing (IWWISS '14) |
Editors | Pierre Maret, Satoshi Honda |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery ACM |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-2747-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing, IWWISS 2014 - Saint Etienne, France Duration: 1 Sept 2014 → 2 Sept 2014 |
Conference
Conference | International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing, IWWISS 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | IWWISS 2014 |
Country/Territory | France |
City | Saint Etienne |
Period | 1/09/14 → 2/09/14 |
Keywords
- ICT4D
- mobility
- sensing
- smart cities
- Sub-Saharan Africa