Smart and sustainable city must meet six criteria according to Giffinger. This paper analyzes the probability of the city of Bouake becoming a smart and sustainable city in a context of informal trade dominance. The conduct of this study is based on conducting a survey to collect qualitative and quantitative data. An interview guide is administered to the various actors involved in urban and digital development. As for the investigation, it is directed at traders. From this it follows that informal trade is the main source of urban employment. While the practice of this activity generates a frantic production of garbage and the presence of traders created a real urban entropy. In addition, green spaces are becoming public markets, sites of international institutions, housing, etc. Moreover, the digital divide is characterized by the persistence of gray areas. This situation does not facilitate the appropriation of digital by populations and administrations.
Human being, in all his history, has ever been so dependent upon information. The circulation and consumption of information has engendered a novel society: the society of information. No human community can avoid it. Information is conveyed through Medias. In order to take advantages of these informations, some necessary arrangements have to be made first upstream and downstream. Without them, that community runs the risk of being marginalized or excluded from the information society. In the present article, the hindrances to the circulation of information in C
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