Chapter 17: Situating urban smartness: ICTs and infrastructure in Nairobi’s informal areas
Prince K. Gumaa a British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Abstract
ICTs are increasingly stimulating infrastructure development and social innovation in African cites. In Eastern Africa, public and private companies are engineering far-reaching ICT-based projects for urban service delivery. In their appropriation, these projects have become subject to overarching dynamics. This chapter follows recent deployments of ICT-based projects for water access in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. I take two examples from two of Nairobi’s largest informal areas where ICT-based projects have been deployed in the urge to formalize access and undercut urban ...
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