Assessing Urban Smart Environment Practices in Akaki Kality Sub city, Addis Ababa City Administration
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2021-11
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Addis Ababa University
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This study aimed to assessing urban smart environment practices in Akaki Kality Sub City, Addis Ababa City Administration. The concept of Smart Environment was introduced as one of the efforts to improve urban environmental quality. Smart Environment (SE) relies on communication and cooperation between a variety of technology devices, including sensor networks implanted in the environment, and servers in a permanent infrastructure. All of these devices combine computer, networking, and physical processes, and monitor and control the environment; making them a very efficient and cost-effective way to improve people's quality of life and security. This study used a mixed approach research method. The tools for data collection were key informant interviews and survey questionnaires. Totally, 98 (Experts) samples were drawn from all 13 Woredas of Akaki-Kality Sub-city Environmental Protection and Green Development Office using the judgmental sampling method. Thematic analysis, descriptive analysis, and binary logistic regression model were used for analyzing the data. Based on the results, there is no urban smart environment practice and environmental problem was not solved in Akaki Kality. This resulted from the lack attention from the government, and lack of community awareness and poor understanding of the importance of stakeholder collaboration in Akaki Kality. To implement smart environment, the government should recognize the benefits of a smart environment, and seek to implement it for environmental protection.
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Smart Environment, Smart City, Environmental Protection, Pollution Addis Ababa, Ethiopia