African Ideas is a strategic consultancy that helps governments accelerate benefits from ICT. It brings together experts with experience transforming the public sector. The presentation discusses Africa's rapid urbanization, with over 50% of Africans living in cities by 2030. It argues that traditional approaches will not solve challenges like infrastructure backlogs and unequal conditions. ICT offers potential through approaches like connected citizens, big data analysis, and innovative management strategies. However, an integrated strategy considering people, processes and technology is needed to address urbanization challenges.
Living in a Hyper-Connected World – How Cities Need to get Smarter and More D...Nirvesh Sooful
Cities are where the action is. That's where innovation is happening. A city is an interconnected system of systems. Infrastructure, people, processes and technology make a city. In modern cities, there's a lot of data about everything. Lots of sensors are already deployed everywhere - in buildings, roads, and utility grids; and lots of new information-based processes are in place. Everything is more information-rich, so you have to think about information as another significant resource you use to manage city life. Citizens are also more connected than ever before, they have access to a lot more information, and have powerful platforms of their own. Big data, mobile, social media, cloud, digital inclusion, open data, broadband, etc. are powerful forces that will impact on cities now and in the future - creating both opportunities and challenges for cities. This case study explores the digital enablement of one large South African city.
In 2000, the newly formed metropolitan City of Cape Town adopted the “Smart City” strategy, which was a turnaround strategy for the city aimed at information-enabling all key business processes in the city and embarking upon a modernisation programme to deliver services based on real information emanating from the ground (operations). This case study looks both at what has been done in the 13 years since the Smart City strategy was adopted, as well as what needs to be done in a future hyperconnected world. In addition to being of relevance to government leaders, the presentation should be of relevance to all CIOs and business leaders on how today’s new technologies, global competition and new business models will shift the focus from an internal efficiency view to a more outside-in view of the digital world and the role of their organisation within it.
Bridging the digital divide – access. content and skills.Nirvesh Sooful
A briefing note on Interactive Comminity Network Nodes. An exciting new project that we are embarking upon with the Western Cape Government aimed at getting mass adoption of digital services in poor communities.
Broad band 14march2012-pgw_cindustrypresentationNirvesh Sooful
Presentation by Andre Stelzner, CIO, City of Cape Town on the City's Broadband Optic fibre project & commercial model. Presented at the Western Cape Government briefing to ICT industry stakeholders on the Western Cape Broadband Programme (March 2012), President Hotel, Bantry Bay, Cape Town
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Change in the City of Cape TownNirvesh Sooful
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Change in the City of Cape Town.
A presentation given as part of the CESPAM Executive Training Programme titled "Implementing E-Governance in Public Sector Organisations", held in Cape Town, South Africa, 26-28th February, 2003
A presentation made to the Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver Canada April 25, 2013 giving an update on the current status of community based ICT for development initiatives (Community Informatics).
Living in a Hyper-Connected World – How Cities Need to get Smarter and More D...Nirvesh Sooful
Cities are where the action is. That's where innovation is happening. A city is an interconnected system of systems. Infrastructure, people, processes and technology make a city. In modern cities, there's a lot of data about everything. Lots of sensors are already deployed everywhere - in buildings, roads, and utility grids; and lots of new information-based processes are in place. Everything is more information-rich, so you have to think about information as another significant resource you use to manage city life. Citizens are also more connected than ever before, they have access to a lot more information, and have powerful platforms of their own. Big data, mobile, social media, cloud, digital inclusion, open data, broadband, etc. are powerful forces that will impact on cities now and in the future - creating both opportunities and challenges for cities. This case study explores the digital enablement of one large South African city.
In 2000, the newly formed metropolitan City of Cape Town adopted the “Smart City” strategy, which was a turnaround strategy for the city aimed at information-enabling all key business processes in the city and embarking upon a modernisation programme to deliver services based on real information emanating from the ground (operations). This case study looks both at what has been done in the 13 years since the Smart City strategy was adopted, as well as what needs to be done in a future hyperconnected world. In addition to being of relevance to government leaders, the presentation should be of relevance to all CIOs and business leaders on how today’s new technologies, global competition and new business models will shift the focus from an internal efficiency view to a more outside-in view of the digital world and the role of their organisation within it.
Bridging the digital divide – access. content and skills.Nirvesh Sooful
A briefing note on Interactive Comminity Network Nodes. An exciting new project that we are embarking upon with the Western Cape Government aimed at getting mass adoption of digital services in poor communities.
Broad band 14march2012-pgw_cindustrypresentationNirvesh Sooful
Presentation by Andre Stelzner, CIO, City of Cape Town on the City's Broadband Optic fibre project & commercial model. Presented at the Western Cape Government briefing to ICT industry stakeholders on the Western Cape Broadband Programme (March 2012), President Hotel, Bantry Bay, Cape Town
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Change in the City of Cape TownNirvesh Sooful
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Change in the City of Cape Town.
A presentation given as part of the CESPAM Executive Training Programme titled "Implementing E-Governance in Public Sector Organisations", held in Cape Town, South Africa, 26-28th February, 2003
A presentation made to the Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver Canada April 25, 2013 giving an update on the current status of community based ICT for development initiatives (Community Informatics).
Smarter Water and Smarter Sustainable Dubuque | 2013 Loras College Business A...Cartegraph
Loras College is proud to present our annual Business Analytics Symposium on March 27, 2014 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, IA. Industry experts will share their insights about the evolving field of business analytics opportunities. Learn about everything from best practices when analyzing data to the importance and benefits of building a culture of analytics within your organization.
To learn more, secure your seat or to take advantage of group discounts visit www.loras.edu/bigdata.
Development as Freedom in a Digital Age Soren Gigler
This presentation summarized the main findings of the recent publication Development as Freedom in a Digital Age. It provides an overview( i) the alternative impact evaluation framework of information and communications technologies on development based on Amartya Sen's capability approach and (ii) presents empirical evidence from rural Bolivia on the conditions under which ICTs can reduce poverty and empower local communities. The book addresses the following main issues (i) what is the impact of ICTs on the well-being of poor communities? (ii) how to evaluate the impact of ICTs on development from a human development perspective? (iii) which factors influence the successful implementation of ICT programs?
[2011] Next Generation e-Government: Transformation into Open Government - Ol...e-Democracy Conference
e-Democracy Conference 2011 presentation titled 'Next Generation e-Government: Transformation into Open Government' by Oleg Petrov, Program Coordinator at World Bank
Improving Local Government Procurement through the use of technology Nirvesh Sooful
This is a concept note describing a municipal e-procurement prrof of concept that I embarked upon. It aims to get support from the South African Government to support a project such as this. It is part of African Ideas thought leadership - intended to spark debate and discussion.
ICT for Development is a TEDxKabul Talk presentation presented on 11 Oct 2012 Kabul, Afghanistan. The Presentation describes the key areas of development in the ICT sector. It also describes the involvement of woman in the development on ICT.
WOUGNET Presentation during the ICT4Democracy in East Africa Workshop December 2012
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
info@wougnet.org
ICT for Democracy :
By: Goretti Z. Amuriat
Email: zgamuriat@wougnet.org
Smart Cities - Standards for classifying services and related information in ...Smart Cities Project
This report describes the role of standards in local government. It draws on the experience of esd-toolkit in the UK and describes how controlled vocabularies maintained by esd-toolkit help municipalities improve their service delivery. Standards are viewed within the context of a consistent model for the public sector.
Ponencia impartida por Melani Oliver, directora del programa Innovación en el Gobierno Local de Nesta, el 5 de julio de 2013 en la II European Summer School of Social Innovation
Smarter Water and Smarter Sustainable Dubuque | 2013 Loras College Business A...Cartegraph
Loras College is proud to present our annual Business Analytics Symposium on March 27, 2014 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, IA. Industry experts will share their insights about the evolving field of business analytics opportunities. Learn about everything from best practices when analyzing data to the importance and benefits of building a culture of analytics within your organization.
To learn more, secure your seat or to take advantage of group discounts visit www.loras.edu/bigdata.
Development as Freedom in a Digital Age Soren Gigler
This presentation summarized the main findings of the recent publication Development as Freedom in a Digital Age. It provides an overview( i) the alternative impact evaluation framework of information and communications technologies on development based on Amartya Sen's capability approach and (ii) presents empirical evidence from rural Bolivia on the conditions under which ICTs can reduce poverty and empower local communities. The book addresses the following main issues (i) what is the impact of ICTs on the well-being of poor communities? (ii) how to evaluate the impact of ICTs on development from a human development perspective? (iii) which factors influence the successful implementation of ICT programs?
[2011] Next Generation e-Government: Transformation into Open Government - Ol...e-Democracy Conference
e-Democracy Conference 2011 presentation titled 'Next Generation e-Government: Transformation into Open Government' by Oleg Petrov, Program Coordinator at World Bank
Improving Local Government Procurement through the use of technology Nirvesh Sooful
This is a concept note describing a municipal e-procurement prrof of concept that I embarked upon. It aims to get support from the South African Government to support a project such as this. It is part of African Ideas thought leadership - intended to spark debate and discussion.
ICT for Development is a TEDxKabul Talk presentation presented on 11 Oct 2012 Kabul, Afghanistan. The Presentation describes the key areas of development in the ICT sector. It also describes the involvement of woman in the development on ICT.
WOUGNET Presentation during the ICT4Democracy in East Africa Workshop December 2012
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
info@wougnet.org
ICT for Democracy :
By: Goretti Z. Amuriat
Email: zgamuriat@wougnet.org
Smart Cities - Standards for classifying services and related information in ...Smart Cities Project
This report describes the role of standards in local government. It draws on the experience of esd-toolkit in the UK and describes how controlled vocabularies maintained by esd-toolkit help municipalities improve their service delivery. Standards are viewed within the context of a consistent model for the public sector.
Ponencia impartida por Melani Oliver, directora del programa Innovación en el Gobierno Local de Nesta, el 5 de julio de 2013 en la II European Summer School of Social Innovation
Ponencia impartida por Geoffrey Whittam, investigador de la Glasgow Caledonian University, el 3 de julio de 2013 en la II European Summer School of Social Innovation
Fiscal Policy (Austerity) in the UK Economytutor2u
In this short revision video I try to explain some of the key arguments for and against the policy of fiscal austerity being carried out by the conservative government in an attempt to cut the budget deficit and control / reduce the scale of government debt as a share of GDP. It is essentially a debate between fiscal conservatives and Keynesian economists!
Cities have never been more important for human well-beingand economic prosperity. Half of the world’s population livesin urban areas, while about 80 per cent of the world’s outputis produced in cities. And it is expected that the vast majorityof all new jobs will be urban. These will provide incomes tobillions and raise hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.South Africa’s situation is similar, with economic growthbeing disproportionately generated in the biggest cities, and agrowing proportion of people living in urban areas. However,only 60 per cent of the country is currently urbanised,suggesting more urbanisation is to come. If the next waveof city growth is managed well, it can accelerate economicgrowth and job creation, and improve people’s quality of life.This is what well-managed cities do: they raise incomes bymaking people more productive and creating opportunitiesthat cannot exist anywhere else. Historically, urbanisationhas been linked with industrialisation, which has bothfacilitated cities’ growth and depended on it. Cities have alsomade possible the efficient delivery of all kinds of services —energy, water, health, education, finance, logistics, media,transport, etc.
How will African cities deal with the problems posed by population growth, climate change and urbanization in the coming years? Are smart cities the answer? A case study of Lagos and Nairobi.
A presentation for:
Athens Co Creation City Branding Project, Panteion University
https://www.facebook.com/groups/344955005611178/
https://medium.com/athens-co-creation-city-branding-project
Blaze African City Series - Second EditionOnyema Udeze
Oh, My Africa.
This is the second edition in our Smart City Series. It explored the various components that make up a great city and offers insights on how African cities can catch up on each of these components. This includes both the socio-economic and physical dimensions of the city, transportation, and work, sustainability and technology, the value chain and city management.
Urban planning processes in lagos executive summaryIsmaila Aro
The publication is the result of a year long research process led by Fabulous Urban, Zurich, with local experts and final year students’ examining the relation between urban policies, urban interventions, the role of governance and the different actors in Lagos. The publication looks at four case studies with detailed overviews, graphics and analysis demonstrating that strategic adjustments in the overall politics and policies guiding the urban development of Lagos are needed to reach out to all Lagos residents who is at the center of the urban and economic development
Q&A session with Dr. Chris Kirubi, Centum Investment GroupAFRICA CEO FORUM
Ahead of the 2015 AFRICA CEO FORUM, Dr Chris Kirubi offered to anwser the questions of his and our twitter followers on the topic of the urbanisation of Africa. Here is the full transcript.
A bright future - What is the future for air transport technology & empowerme...SITA
Africa is moving from a $2 trillion economy today to a $29 trillion economy by 2050. Household incomes will increase sevenfold. Foreign direct investment has poured in from China but also from Europe, America, Australia, Canada and India. Substantial expansion of the internet infrastructural links from Africa to the rest of the world have given a massive boost to connectivity. Mobile has been a major factor of change: sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s third largest region, behind Asia Pacific and Europe.
Africa’s air transport sector is responding with a growing
number of low-cost carriers beginning to address the long-standing need for improved intra-African connections.
Problems related to safety, regulation, liberalization and costs remain, but there is an increased determination to address these issues urgently – and provide the infrastructure and resource that will be sought by an increasingly affluent and travel-hungry population.
Etude Pwc "Cities of Opportunity Africa" - Les villes africaines révèlent leu...PwC France
http://bit.ly/PwC-IntoAfrica15
A l’occasion de l’Africa CEO Forum 2015, PwC lance la 1ère édition de son étude « Cities of Opportunity Africa », qui analyse le potentiel actuel et futur de 20 villes africaines.
Ce rapport est partie intégrante de la série d’études « Cities of opportunity » dans laquelle PwC structure son analyse des villes autour des enjeux clés pour les investisseurs comme pour les acteurs publics, responsables des politiques publiques de la ville.
Méthodologie
PwC a étudié 20 villes africaines sur la base de 4 indicateurs, eux-mêmes reposant sur 29 variables, dont le détail est expliqué dans l’étude disponible ici : www.pwc.fr. Voici quelques exemples de variables :
-Infrastructure : coût du logement, trafic des aéroports, débit internet, routes et transports publics, eau et électricité…
- Capital humain : nombre de professionnels de santé et de lits d’hôpital, nombre de jeunes diplômés et taux d’alphabétisation…
- Economie : croissance du PIB, facilité à faire des affaires, diversification du PIB, investissements directs étrangers, coefficient GINI…
- Société & Démographie : marché de la classe moyenne, croissance des villes moyennes, taux de criminalité, nombre d’événements internationaux, croissance de la population…
Ce choix de variables est inévitablement subjectif, mais il est basé sur notre expérience de ce type d’étude ainsi que sur notre connaissance du continent africain.
Western cape broadband strategy (industry briefing)Nirvesh Sooful
Presentation by Nirvesh Sooful, Technical Advisor. Presented at the Western Cape Government briefing to ICT industry stakeholders on the Western Cape Broadband Programme (March 2012), President Hotel, Bantry Bay, Cape Town
The objective of this project is to utilise ICT to assist local government in South Africa with improving its service delivery. A key component of this system is an e-procurement solution aimed at reducing corruption in South Africa.
Presentation by Nirvesh Sooful on the topic of “The Emerging Role of the CIO: Leader or Technologist, Visionary or Implementer, Maverick or Collaborator” at the 2nd Annual CIO Challenge 2007 on 14&15 November 2007 at The Park Hyatt in Johannesburg. The conference was co-hosted with Deloitte.
Digital Cities Conference 2007 - The Social and Economic Impact of a Metropol...Nirvesh Sooful
The 3rd Annual BMI-T Digital Cities Forum is a two day event held on the 4th and 5th of October 2007 .
The City of Cape Town is in the process of installing its own broadband telecommunications network. It is envisaged that not only will this network result in considerable cost savings for the City itself, but also has the potential to bring about significant social and economic benefits to the city at large. The objective of this presentation is to identify, explore and, where possible, quantify the potential economic and social benefits that would be generated as a result of the proposed broadband network.
Presentation by City of Cape Town to the South African National Department of Provincial and Local Government (DPLG) in May 2006. Presented by Mehboob Foflonker and Andre Stelzner, the 2 city Directors responsible for this project.
Putting the SPARK into Virtual Training.pptxCynthia Clay
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Building Your Employer Brand with Social MediaLuanWise
Presented at The Global HR Summit, 6th June 2024
In this keynote, Luan Wise will provide invaluable insights to elevate your employer brand on social media platforms including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok. You'll learn how compelling content can authentically showcase your company culture, values, and employee experiences to support your talent acquisition and retention objectives. Additionally, you'll understand the power of employee advocacy to amplify reach and engagement – helping to position your organization as an employer of choice in today's competitive talent landscape.
[Note: This is a partial preview. To download this presentation, visit:
https://www.oeconsulting.com.sg/training-presentations]
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Leading companies such as Nike, Toyota, and Siemens are prioritizing sustainable innovation in their business models, setting an example for others to follow. In this Sustainability training presentation, you will learn key concepts, principles, and practices of sustainability applicable across industries. This training aims to create awareness and educate employees, senior executives, consultants, and other key stakeholders, including investors, policymakers, and supply chain partners, on the importance and implementation of sustainability.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles and concepts that form the foundation of sustainability within corporate environments.
2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Key Concepts of Sustainability
2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
To download the complete presentation, visit: https://www.oeconsulting.com.sg/training-presentations
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1. African Ideas for Local
Government
Nirvesh Sooful
CEO, African Ideas
African Urban Matters: 14-15 November 2013
2. African Ideas – who we are
African Ideas is a strategic consultancy helping governments to
accelerate the benefits of ICT enabled change through transformation of
the public sector and the wider economy.
African Ideas brings together people with a track record of success in
delivering social, economic and public sector transformation.
At the heart of African Ideas is a team that has worked at top global
organisations and who led some of the country’s most ambitious and
successful programmes of e-transformation.
“dropping a stone, or even a drop of water, in a pond causes ripples to
emanate from the source, getting bigger and bigger the further away from
the source they get.
This is a powerful example of small changes causing large and farreaching effects”
At African Ideas, we specialise in working with our clients to identify these ‘big
lever’ projects – the projects which, when embarked upon, will set the
necessary ripples in motion to drive change and transformation throughout an
eco-system. In this way we aim to have a profound effect on the society in
which we operate.
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3. More than ever, human life revolves around the city
One hundred years ago, less
that 20% of people lived in an urban area.
By 1990, less than 30% of the global population lived in a city, but as of
2010, more than half of all people live in an urban area. By 2050, this
proportion will increase to 70%
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Source: UN, Department of Economic & Social Affairs, Population Division
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4. Africa is also rapidly urbanising
In the 1950’s the entire continent was
pretty much rural
Currently around 40% of Africans
currently live in urban areas, making
Africa more urbanised than India and
slightly less urbanised than China.
At present, subSaharan Africa
is second only
to Eastern Asia
in terms of the
pace of
urbanisation
Urbanisation
rates
2010 - 2015
By 2030 it will be 50% and by 2050,
it will be 60%
In 2010, there were 94 sub-Saharan
Africa cities with a population of more
than 500 000 … and in 2025 there will
be 144 such cities
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5. However it is important to understand…
Africa is a very
large and very
complex place with
many unique
challenges
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6. And it has a different kind of urbanisation
UN's 2010 State of African Cities report observes that “experience shows that
across the world, urbanisation has been associated with improved human
development, rising incomes and better living standards,” but warns that
rapid urbanisation can be more of a burden than an opportunity for Africa.
“Socio-economic conditions in African cities are now the most unequal in the
world”. This situations threatens stability, affecting not only the continuity of
cities as socio-political human ecosystems but also entire nations.
$93 Billion of investment
is required annually for
infrastructure - water,
electricity, sanitation,
irrigation, transport and
ICT
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7. And this is why technology has to play a key role
With the challenges that we have, we need efficient and cost effective
government as all available resources need to be spent on dealing with the
massive infrastructure backlogs that we have.
One of the challenges that we have
seen in South Africa, is the burgeoning
cost of government administration,
without the necessary investment in
infrastructure – this is a very
dangerous position.
Technology can help. In fact, it is the
only real answer.
We need to increase our investment in
effective technology so that we can
reduce the cost of running
government.
SAP
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8. Cities are amazing places
The city is a microcosm of the major challenges and opportunities facing the planet
today—intensified and accelerated.
Here, all man-made systems come together and interact with one another.
Electricity - distribution & retail
Primary health care
Economic & Social
Development
Emergency Services
Municipal Policing
Roads, Stormwater
& Transport
Sport & Recreation
Opportunity
City Administration
Public Housing
Urban Planning &
Environment
Water & Sanitation - storage,
treatment & distribution
The information/
ICT challenge
Inclusive
Community Services
Solid Waste / landfill,
removal & area cleaning
• Leveraging information to make better decisions
• Anticipating problems to resolve them proactively
• Co-ordinating resources to operate effectively
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9. Key objectives of an ICT enablement strategy within
the context of a developmental state
Citizens and businesses
Target:
Target:
Target:
Government employees &
elected politicians
Citizens
Society & the economy
Foundation
Efficient and
Effective
Administration
Improved
Governance
and Customer
Service
Social and
Economic
Development
Leadership & Strategy
Enabling policy and regulatory environment
Core/ strategic infrastructure
Appropriate Institutional Model (for delivery)
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10. Many of the issues that we were facing then, still plague
local government in SA today
•
Lack of / Poor service delivery (water, sanitation, electricity, refuse removal)
•
Lack of communication with communities
•
Corruption and Nepotism
•
Financial mismanagement and Maladministration
•
Outstanding debt payments for municipal services
•
Lack of capacity – poor project planning, poor management and/or underspending by municipalities
•
Government officials who spend time focusing on their personal business
interests at the expense of service delivery.
•
Violation of MFMA & Supply Chain Mgt - results in tender irregularities, fuels
corruption, erodes confidence in municipal leadership and compromises
service delivery.
•
Poverty and unemployment
A REPORT ON THE CURRENT ‘SERVICE DELIVERY
PROTESTS’ IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Commissioned by the House Chairperson Committees,
Oversight and ICT, Parliament of South Africa, 2009
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11. Cities of the future: key issues
• Interconnected
Systems and the
“internet of
things”
• Connected
Citizens
• Big Data
Source: Bosch Internet of Things and Services Lab
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14. Connected Citizens: Impact of Mobile
Global
rank
49
55
56
60
62
65
69
76
77
82
Country
Ghana
Zimbabwe
Namibia
Egypt
South Africa
Cape Verde
Mauritius
Botswana
Sudan
Libya
Penetration
rate
33.3%
29.7%
28.8%
26.9%
26%
22.5%
21.5%
16.6%
16.4%
13.8%
Source: ITU
As Dr. Yonah (previous Director: ITC at
Tanzania’s Ministry of Communications) says,
“the proof is in the adverts”. He points out that
data is being bundled even if people might not
want it. Because they can & it so cheap.
900 Tanzanian Shilling = R5.80 or US$0.56
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15. Technology and Culture
This
technological
solution even
deals with an
issue of
urbanisation –
how do you
maintain a
traditional culture
in an urban
context where
space is at a
premium
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16. Empowered Citizens (who have having powerful platforms
of their own)
Impact of cheap
consumer grade
sensor technology
and connected
citizens
Offers unprecedented
opportunities for comanagement of cities – given
our infrastructure backlog
hedonometer.org
an instrument that measures
the happiness of large
populations in real time
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17. Big data (as a result of 1 trillion things, all generating data)
Source: CISCO
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18. Big Data - Big issues to be resolved
Big data or Big
brother (power
& control)
Access (usage
rights &
obligations)
Open data
information
transparency
Privacy
Security
Source:http://www.slidesha
re.net/gleonhard/data-isthe-new-oil-publicy-is-thenew-privacy-futuristspeaker-gerd-leonhard
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Ethics
Etc.
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19. Conclusion
Africa is rapidly urbanising – like the rest of the world
This could be an opportunity or challenge for us
Across the world, urbanisation has been associated with improved human
development, rising incomes and better living standards,
However currently socio-economic conditions in African cities are the most unequal in
the world. Our infrastructure backlogs are scary.
Traditional methods and traditional
approaches are not going to work. We
need to do things radically different.
ICT offers great promise and potential to
look at innovative ways if managing and
governing cities.
However ICT on its own will not do this –
need an effective and integrated strategy
that looks at people, processes and
technology across society
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20. African Ideas and the African Centre for Cities
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About the ACC
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The African Centre for Cities (ACC) was established at the University of Cape Town in
2007. It is an interdisciplinary research institute that facilitates critical urban research and
policy discourse for the promotion of vibrant, democratic and sustainable urban
development in the global South from an African perspective. The ACC works at local,
national, Africa and global scales.
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ACC’s research programme on Cape Town is called the CityLab programme. Initiated in
2008 as an interdisciplinary applied research programme for learning from the experience
of Cape Town. The programme provides a dedicated, university based but multi-partner
research process to investigate urban dynamics in the region. The programme is organised
around a number of key themes, each of which has a lifespan of around three year. Current
themes include Climate Change, Healthy Cities, Green/ Sustainable Cities
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African Ideas is working with the ACC to develop an African focussed lab
(based on the City Lab and Living Labs concept) focussing on technology
and urbanisation.
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We would welcome the Cities and the vendors here to engage/ partner with us around this
very important initiative.
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21. Thank you
Contact information:
Nirvesh Sooful
CEO: African Ideas
nirvesh@africanideas.co.za
www.africanideas.co.za
www.slideshare.net/nsooful
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Editor's Notes
For the first time ever, the majority of the world's population lives in a city, and this proportion continues to grow. One hundred years ago, 2 out of every 10 people lived in an urban area. By 1990, less than 40% of the global population lived in a city, but as of 2010, more than half of all people live in an urban area. By 2030, 6 out of every 10 people will live in a city, and by 2050, this proportion will increase to 7 out of 10 people.
Leveraging information to make better decisionCities are amazing places. Inter-connected systems, etc. Lots of effort has been put on administration and enabling the organisations (operations). ExamplesBut it has been an inside out view. What’s coming, is that we need to take more cognisance of the outside in view.Presentation structured in two partsFirst part is on what we did in the last decade – effectiveness and efficiency within the enterpriseSecond part is on what is coming
Interconnected Systems and the “internet of things” or what Gartner has been calling the Internet of everything in this conferenceIn the future everything in a city, from the electricity grid, to the sewer pipes to roads, buildings and cars will be connected to the network. Buildings will turn off the lights for you, self-driving cars will find you that sought-after parking space and even the rubbish bins will be smart. The city becomes a living laboratory for smart technologies that can handle all major systems - water, transport, security, garbage, green buildings, clean energy, and more.We already know a lot about CCTV cameras being deployed for traffic management and safety & security. Increasingly intelligent sensors are being deployed for a wide range of city related services traffic management, dam level monitoring, environmental monitoring, pollution management, fire detection, electricity grid management, busses, etc.In Birmingham, lamp-posts are being fitted with sensors. In Norway, more than 40,000 bus stops are connected and even tweet. In Cape Town, usage of inner city parking bays are monitored via a wireless network that knows when the bay is empty and when it is being used, how long your car has been parked in a parking bay, etc. Potentially, you could be directed to empty parking bays as you enter the city. The data to do this already exists. At MIT's Senseable City Lab, 5,000 pieces of rubbish in Seattle were geo-tagged and tracked around the country for three months to find out whether recycling was really efficient. The so-called internet of things offers a new way to analyse and measure city life, from whether water pipes are leaking to how traffic is flowing on the roads and whether buildings are using energy in the most efficient way. And this data can be used in different ways.Rio is often used as an example of an emergent smart city of the future. Rio is set to to experience the full glare of the worldwide media in the next few years as it plays host to both the Football World Cup in 2014, followed by the Olympic Games two years later. It has built a Nasa-style control room where banks of screens suck up data from sensors and cameras located around the city. This means that officials from across the city can now collaborate to manage the movement of traffic and public transportation systems, while also ensuring that power and water supplies work more efficiently. A coordinated response can be rolled out in the event of a crisis, such as collapsing building. Transport systems can be shut down, emergency services mobilised and gas supplies can be cut off, while citizens can be informed of alternative routes via Twitter.China is busy building dozens of new cities and is starting to adopt huge control rooms like the one in Rio.However, there are differences in opinion on this. Andrew Hudson-Smith, director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College, London says that while a lot of the big technology firms are looking at the control room model, this is backward thinking. "Why put the technology in one room when you can put it in the hands of everyone?" he has asks.He and his team have created a city dashboard as part of plans to make London smarter. Like Rio's control room, the dashboard collates data such as pollution, weather and river levels. But it also looks at some things that Rio doesn't - such as what is trending on Twitter and how happy the city is.A version of the dashboard is hooked up on a wall of iPads in the office of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. They claim that this as powerful as the large scale control room but significantly cheaper. But more importantly, there is also a version available on the web, so that the public has the same information as the policy-makers and that has the potential to be incredibly powerful.And this leads me into the next key issue which deals with the Internet of users and the social web.
Big things affecting the cities of the futureInternet of thingsInterconnected systems – big dataTalk about the powerful systems that users are developingThey are doing it themselves – eg. of city GIS and Google Maps/ Bing, etc.Metering systems in the house – generating their own data, getting instant feedback, etc.
Big data or Big brother (power & control)Big data is very important, and is going to be very valuable. This is a major theme of this conference. Big data is often referred to as the “new oil” or the “Oil of the internet age”. And this is potentially a very valuable analogy. We also understand that in the fast moving consumer goods environment that the monetisation of this data is of paramount importance. And yet it is precisely this “new oil” analogy and slides such as this one that concern civic activists.
In a lot of the technology company literature on smart cities, City inhabitants are “mainly addressed as consumers rather than as citizens”. Yes, the city is collecting all this data and they are building services on top of that and some of those services may be handy – but what if you want to do something else, something that’s not provided by the government themselves? If a group of citizens, for example, want to use that data to organise an action group against environmental pollution in their city the answer you get is not quite clear. In Cape Town there was a recent example of a woman who asked for data from a CCTV camera about an accident and was refused. At the moment it seems that the data platform is a closed platform and will be used for government or businesses to build services on top of them.”Anthony Townsend, director of the Institute of the Future and author of Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia has said that "Some people want to fine tune a city like you do a race car but they are leaving citizens out of the process”.This is an age in which very big things can come from massively co-ordinated human activity that doesn’t necessarily get planned from the top down. We need to stop thinking about building smart cities like a mainframe – which is this industry vision – and think about it more like we built the web, as loosely intercoupling networks.What’s clear from the institutional point of view is that the Government now has competition in terms of organising and deciding – citizens can now do an awful lot themselves using new tools which they just couldn’t do before effectively. These are powerful platforms – citizens have toppled governments with these tools (like we have seen in Egypt and the occupy movements). They have real power. And that is the issue - these are two different approaches to building smart cities and they’re playing out in this much bigger struggle over control between people and government/ corporates. The reality is that a bit of both is needed. Some of the big infrastructural or planning decisions still need to be done in the traditional institutional approach, while a lot of other things can be done in a more bottom up or outside in view. We need to have a strategy that has both active government, as well as active citizens. However, this needs quite a radical rethink of the way we operate. Who has access to what, when and how? Who owns the data, how is it managed? How can we share some another’s information? How can privacy and security be maintained? Etc. These are the strategic issues that cities need to be thinking about. And they should be thinking about this together with their citizens.