Name: Approaches to Building a Smart Community
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Approaches to Building a Smart Community

An Exploration through the Concept of the Digital Village

Edited By: Jackie Phahlamohlaka

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This book offers unique ‘glocal’ approaches to ‘smart communities’, drawing on South African experiences to address this global issue. It blends social and technical aspects, presenting insights from a range of community practitioners, academics, architects, and engineers.

The unique approaches proposed in this book are ‘glocal’ in character, as they draw on the experiences of South Africans to address the global issue…

The unique approaches proposed in this book are ‘glocal’ in character, as they draw on the experiences of South Africans to address the global issue of ‘smart communities’. The book blends together social and technical aspects, and presents the experiences from a range of community practitioners, academics, architects and engineers.

Dr Jackie Phahlamohlaka completed his MSc in Computational and Applied Mathematics at Dalhousie University, Canada, and his PhD in Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is currently a Chief Researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He is the founder of SEIDET and the Chairman of its Board of Directors. He completed the Executive National Security Programme (ENSP) at the South African National Defence College in 2007. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals of South Africa, and is a member of the South African National Committee for the International Federation for Information Processing. His research interests are in ICT and socio-economic development, web-based group support systems, broadband access, and national security.