Smart capital cities: towards a smart new administrative capital (NAC)

Abstract

Overpopulation and resource shortages are becoming increasingly important challenges to our global agenda. Cities are rapidly evolving, expanding in size and density while confronting major challenges such as migration, deteriorating healthcare, and transportation issues. Studying Egypt's overall urban development tendencies, as well as the continuously growing population in Greater Cairo, it becomes clear that developing new urban communities to accommodate this increase is a requirement. The major goal of any city pursuing evolution is to solve its issues to improve the quality of life and services for its residents, which ties into the goal of a "smart city," as it maximizes the use of technology to satisfy the current and the future needs. This paper discusses the strategy for transforming the old Cairo capital into a new administrative capital (NAC), which is intended to be a smart capital city. It also discusses smart city dimensions, smart city performance evaluation criteria, and smart city technologies such as implementing smart applications in various city sectors, all of which contribute to the city's continued development.