**6. Policy recommendations**

Not every African country that has embarked on making cities smart. As such each country needs some policy interventions starting from building a national vision that is dedicated to national level commitments to developing smart infrastructure. This also will spell out the commitment to funding through PPPs and collaborating with institutions of higher learning to do studies on the impact of the changes. Smart cities require an urgent development of localized relevant skilled capacity as they can easily result in gigs being performed from remote locations thereby not actually addressing the local issues of unemployment. For better outcome, it is imperative that governments embrace Research and Development as well as education. Hold regular hackathons on innovation and competition in order to build the future infrastructure to support the smart cities.
