The importance of measuring the smart city project's performance: case the Wilaya of Algiers

Abstract

The "smart city" is obviously a major concern which city of tomorrow will face. The problem about that is that the theory connected with this concept is blurring and vague. From there, how is it possible to know if a city is "smart" or not? How can we measure the performance of a city? Is there any tool to do that? Cities should find answers to these questions if they want to become "smart cities" or to improve their "smartness". This Master thesis deals with this context. The goal of this thesis was to establish a mean to know if a city could be named "smart" or not and to provide tools to evaluate its performance on this field. Because of this, tools imply key performance indicators (KPI).