Description
Cities are launching various smart city projects to resolve their urbanization issues and challenges (Snow et al., 2016; Yin et al., 2015). Cities are adopting smart city projects and technologies to improve service delivery, sustainability, infrastructure, quality of life, and governance (Angelidou et al., 2018; Giffinger et al., 2007). As of 2015, about 250 smart city projects have been launched worldwide (Angelidou, 2015). Despite the proliferation of smart city projects, some are failing and scaling back on their promises (Sax, 2022). While we know why some smart cities are vibrant and thriving, we know less about why some projects face false starts or are abandoned. My paper attempts to address this gap in the literature. I intend to focus on how public-private partnerships and attitudes affect the success of smart city projects using the mixed method research approach and interviewing elites and surveying citizens in Africa.
