**3. Methods**

In this chapter, we study the impact of smart cities on the creation of new business models and informal enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). SSA provides the best environment to conduct such a study since digitisation is under way, the informal economy is large and the emerging technologies are enabling disruptive business models. Over a period of three years we developed an innovative, inductive method of identifying policymakers from some of the most progressive countries in information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in the continent for qualitative interviews. We eventually interviewed 18 policymakers as respondents at conferences and more notably at the Transform Africa Summit, 2019 that was held in Kigali, Rwanda. These were qualitative interviews with the key respondents. In addition to this, secondary data, where appropriate was used in the analysis. The findings have been discussed based on the thematic dimensions identified by Deloitte [4].

*Orchestrating Smart Cities, New Disruptive Business Models and Informal Enterprises DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94075*
