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The Contribution of ICTs to Sustainable Urbanization and Health in Urban Areas in Cameroon

The Contribution of ICTs to Sustainable Urbanization and Health in Urban Areas in Cameroon
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Author(s): Adolphe Ayissi Eteme (University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon)and Justin Moskolai Ngossaha (University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 18
Source title: Waste Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1210-4.ch030

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Abstract

The uncontrolled urbanization in African cities with inadequate access to urban domestic waste, housing and sanitation management services (DWHSMS) generates landscapes that become places of the spread of many pathologies leading to many public health problems. The city of Yaoundé (Cameroon) is not an exception in this situation which exposes an urban population to the most recurrent diseases. The situation become more complex in the fact that, the performance of the policies and the actions undertaken implied in developing countries, is not known in a precisely. The information sources are dispersed, old and not coordinated. ICT can, at the service of the great causes like the sustainable urbanization and/or environmental health, constitute the irreplaceable ones and essential decision-making tools. For this purpose, integrated and interoperable YUSIIP platform has proposed and deployed. The objective of this article is to present this Domestic platform and to show its contribution in (DWHSMS).

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