City Life Magazine 14 | Page 37

ARTICOLI 37 Someday, Lagos will be a Smart City? I n these years there will be very few things left can be done without an ICT (Information and Communication Technology) device or without using and interfacing with some digitalized facilities. Following this assumption we increasingly has started to speak about Smart City, also in unexpected contexts, such as Central Africa such as Nigeria and its City State Lagos in particularly. Interesting are the programs launched by some of the world’s leading ICT firms, such as Cisco’s IoT or IBM Smarter Cities Challenge. If here, the Nigerian could adopt one of these programs and bring them to impact on their infrastructure system, then they could gain respect from the advanced nations and achieve Vision 2020 protocol in real time.