The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Sustainable Smart City Management in Egypt.

Samir Abdelaziz, Ahmed

doi:10.21608/jces.2024.361680

The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Sustainable Smart City Management in Egypt.

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

المؤلف

Ahmed Samir Abdelaziz

Head of Digital & Sustainable Business Economics department College of Management and Technology Cairo , Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

10.21608/jces.2024.361680

المستخلص

Egypt is the most densely populated country in the Middle East and has 44.4% of people under the age of 15 years. Egypt faces extensive challenges including the impact of rapid urban growth on social, economic, and environmental conditions.
The effects of overpopulation can be mitigated by utilizing smart solutions to improve customs, infrastructure, and services. A smart city is designed to work on six main parameters: smart economy, smart environment, smart people, smart mobility, smart living, and smart governance. A smart city provides its residents, businesses, and governmental authorities with technology and data to make better decisions and achieve a better quality of life. This is achieved by building a stable infrastructure of electricity, water, gas, telecommunications, transportation, and local resources.
This paper addresses the idea of smart cities by looking at the use of advanced technologies and internet services by government institutions and private individuals to address the challenges of urbanization and their impact on the environment and natural resources. The paper highlights the role of public-private partnerships to finance and manage such projects, in developing renewable resources, and reducing the amount of electricity consumed in the projects as much as possible. In addition, it reviews and understands the challenges faced by Egypt in developing smart cities according to the lack of legislation on the feasibility of the projects and the financial constraints on government budgets. In conclusion, the paper proposes rapid solutions to increase the number of smart cities in Egypt through the use of private sector capital and monetary resources to finance and operate any project in a short period of time.

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