Abstract: Recent advancements in technologies enabled the development of smart cities to be more effective and possible. Smart cities depend on intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, control system, and many more advanced technologies. Sustainability challenges and problems worldwide, with smart and sustainability concepts, reflect almost mutual goals. It includes improving and providing the essential life services for all people efficiently while depending on sustainable, clean, and renewable energy with considerations of different economic, educational, health, social and environmental aspects in the city. In this research, a cost analysis process has been implemented to ease the implementation and resource utilization of smart and sustainable cities in Africa. The challenges and difficulties of those implementations are summarized.

Ahmed Al-Gindy, Aya Al-Chikh Omar, Mariam Aerabe and Ziad Elkhatib, “Conceptualizing Smart Sustainable Cities: Crossing Visions and Utilizing Resources in Africa” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(5), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120549

@article{Al-Gindy2021,
title = {Conceptualizing Smart Sustainable Cities: Crossing Visions and Utilizing Resources in Africa},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120549},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120549},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {5},
author = {Ahmed Al-Gindy and Aya Al-Chikh Omar and Mariam Aerabe and Ziad Elkhatib}
}