Introduction
The aim of the survey was to find out whether the youth of South Africa and people around us know about innovative cities, otherwise known as Smart cities. If people are aware of smart cities, we want to give them more information such as upcoming innovations which is covered in our blog. However, if people are unaware we want to know what is happening in the world of technology.
Target group
Our target group is mainly the youth (students and fellow friends). People in our group sent the link to their friends in different universities across the country. Some of us also sent the link to our parents, family members and their colleagues.
Method used
As a group, we came up with the questions and answers after having done a bit of research on smart cities. We used survey monkey to conduct our survey and sent the following link to our acquaintances-
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/895NBZ2. On average, it took them five minutes and seventeen seconds.
Survey Results
98 people answered ,2 people skipped ithe question . 3 of the people who answered selected a wrong option,however 95 people got the answer right . in this case a mijority of people knew what a smart city is and a minority of people knew what a smart city was. More people are familiar with the smart city concept and have a brief idea on what a smart city is.
In the above question 98 out of 100 people managed to answer the question and 2 people did not answer the question .out of the 98 people that answered 42 of the people chose a correct option which is option B. Roughly 50% people knew the appropriate set of smart cities, however most of the people who knew what a smart city was failed to choose an option of the correct set of cities. This goes to show that most people know what a smart is but do not know the actual smart cities that we have in the world.
99 of the people answered and one person skipped the answer. Only nine of the Ninety-nine that answered got the correct option which is option c and the rest of the people chose incorrect options which were option A and C. Most people assumed that (option B) was correct because it had the key word smart which is what the whole concept is about.
People are unaware that nairobi is the smartest city but they are not completely clueless as 41,41% answered the question correctly by saying nairobi is the smartest city yet 49,49% say that johannesburg is the smartest city. This would be because we live in south africa and the majority of the people who answered the survey are located in johannesburg and can see the developments and the qspects of joburg being a smart city everyday. Though 9,09% of the people thought lagos was the smartest city we can clearly see that in this case the minority was wrong. One person though did not even attempt to answer as they were probably clueless as to knowing which is the smartest city in africa.
98 people answered the question and 2 people did not answer the question. Of the 98 people that answered the question 74.49%, which is 73 people got the correct option. This shows that most people are aware that no one came with the smart city concept but it just evolved in parallel with upcoming innovations. The rest of the 25.51% thought that a smart city was innovated by a specific person.
Conclusion
Based on our survey it can be gathered that the youth have a general idea that smart cities exist but they lack knowledge and understanding of the concept. They do not know which cities are smart and on which continent they are located. They also have no idea what devices are used in smart cities. Judging by the minimum time (twenty-three seconds) the majority took to complete the survey we can conclude that some have guessed and with the maximum time being 10 minutes they may have researched the questions independently.
Recommendations
People should keep up with the times and know what is happening not just in their world but globally as it can be beneficial to them in both the short-run and the long run. May it be career wise, deciding which countries to visit for site seeing purposes or where they want to raise their family.
Ø They could find better employment in those cities with higher salaries.
Ø With the rise in rate of innovation, new job opportunities are created which will in turn improve the economy.
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