In the context of the unprecedented sustainability challenges provoked by rapid urbanization, this chapter analyzes the unreadiness of actual Pakistan governance model to deal with those challenges and therefore suggests a suitable and flexible governance model for Pakistan cities to become smarter and sustainable. In that sense, the chapter starts by making a summary of Pakistan policy documents on smart cities, then gives a theoretical overview of the concept of smart governance exposed in scientific literature, after that describes the cities’ governance in Pakistan, and, finally, proposes a new governance model for Pakistan to be able to achieve the sustainable development goals stated in UN agenda 2030, through smarter and sustainable cities. The chapter concludes that a two-tier smart governance model grounded in good governance principles such as effectiveness, efficiency, transparency, collaboration and openness, accountability, and pluralism and driven by e-governance and e-government is the most indicated model to achieve the purposes of cities to become smart and sustainable.
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Lopes, N. V. M., & Farooq, S. (2020). Smart City Governance Model for Pakistan. In EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing (pp. 17–28). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22070-9_2
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