To that extent, for any city to be considered smart, it must and should have the characteristic features and components of that, which makes it a smart city thereby differentiating it from a Traditional City, i.e. Any Smart City by design must also have the features of other known city concepts to make it a complete city. Recently, the government of Lagos State has intensified effort towards making the state more livable by injecting some smart city components into the city. Efforts should be made to lift the status of existing cities from traditional (normal) cities to modern ones i.e. Smart cities through the review of plans with a view to introducing features that will make existing cities to be much more livable.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2017 03:45 UTC