A Smart City Concept for Botswana in the Sub Saharan Region of Africa

The Internet of Things (IoT) as a technology and its adaptation into mainstreams by various governments across the globe has set developmental pace for many new innovations in IoT. IoTs are transforming cities across globe in the form of ensuring healthcare, understanding traffic, building better and efficient services in the form of delivery in various sectors like energy, water and sanitation etc while improving quality of life and to establish the smart city. This paper place aims to understand some of these technologies and how it can be adopted as technology into the Sub-Sharan African region with a focus on Botswana to make a smart city. The article attempts to highlight key issues that must be resolved to achieve improved IoT adoption for Botswana's development of smart cities in Sub-Saharan Africa.