African Smart Cities Strategies for Agenda 2063

Africa Journal of Management

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 210-229

  Slavova, Mira ^a   Okwechime, Ekene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Agenda 2063; smart cities; urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018756225     PISSN: 23322373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2016.1175266     Document Type: Article

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