{"id":6156,"date":"2019-10-25T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6156"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"smart-cities-hold-the-key-to-rapid-africa-urbanization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/25\/smart-cities-hold-the-key-to-rapid-africa-urbanization\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Cities Hold The Key To Rapid Africa Urbanization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By\nDiana Muriuki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may have escaped\npublic attention when last year, global l ICT giant Huawei confirmed the\nintroduction of a $1.5 billion (Sh10.5 trillion) global financing to fuel the\ndevelopment of smart city infrastructure \u2013 with specific attention to\nincreasing activity in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto Huawei, the financing will be directed towards supporting African\ngovernments and smart city builders construct systems for critical\ncommunications and Intelligent Video Surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ndevelopment comes at a time when safe city programmes are now a top priority\nfor governments across Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\nbudget constraints remain the biggest challenge thus impacting on efforts to\nintensify smart city initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why\nthe huge interest and big money being channeled towards smart cities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\nstarters, Wikipedia describes a smart as a city that incorporates information\nand communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the quality and performance of\nurban services such as energy, transportation and utilities in order to reduce\nresource consumption, wastage and overall costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\noverarching aim of a smart city is to enhance the quality of living for its\ncitizens through smart technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts\nallude to the fact that the fundamental aspect of a smart city is not the\nnumber of sensors or devices it contains, but rather the use of technology that\nenables city planners and other government bodies to reduce the stress on a city\u2019s\ninfrastructure and unlock a better standard of living for its citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be it\nan automated management system, digital government services, digital sourcing\nof information, mobile apps or the possibility of connecting with government\nofficials via social media platforms, in smart cities citizens leverage\ntechnology to improve everyday processes\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/columnists\/Smart-cities-hold-rapid-Africa-urbanisation\/4259356-5323556-ru7k0fz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diana Muriuki It may have escaped public attention when last year, global l ICT giant Huawei confirmed the introduction of a $1.5 billion (Sh10.5 trillion) global financing to fuel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}