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.
The purpose of this article is to highlight the key developmental role, but not always perceived at its fair value, that radio plays at the national and more precisely at the local level. Radio is a means of communication easily accessible to most people, as well in rural area as in urban area. As such, in particular socio-political contexts, it plays a leading role despite the pervasiveness of television and the Internet that disrupt the current media world. The west of the Ivory Coast that was one of the main centers of the military-political crisis in the country between 2002 and 2011 offers, through the Toulepleu department, an appropriate framework for assessing the role of the media in the socio-economic development after this crisis. A number of radio stations available in this region allow for an analysis of the issue. The results obtained through field studies and participating observations do show the key role that radio plays in national reconciliation and awareness politics to other socio-economic development issues.
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