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In a milestone for the Smart City Infrastructure Fund (SCIF), CiviSmart brings together the three smart lighting operators of Ottima, Selettra and Atlantico.

Italian real-estate and infrastructure investment company Patrizia is launching a smart public lighting platform, bringing together the three previously acquired smart lighting operators of Ottima, Selettra and Atlantico.

It marks a major milestone for Patrizia’s Smart City Infrastructure Fund (SCIF), which has invested significantly in Italian urban infrastructure since 2022. CiviSmart’s expansion is also directly aligned with EU energy transition policies, particularly the European Green Deal and Energy Efficiency Directive.

Last Friday, the government formed a committee with members drawn from Ministry of Information, E-government Secretariat and the Communications Commission of Kenya to map out the regions to be connected to the infrastructure.

Njoroge works out of iHub, a working space that hosts developers, designers and others working with technology software. It is one of the most well-known tech hubs in Africa. In just four years since its founding, the iHub has over 13,000 members in its online and off-line community, held close to 500 events and had over 50 companies calling it home.

President Museveni has given Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) ‘unlimited access’ to national optic fibre backbone infrastructure network and ordered for immediate cancelation of a multi-billion ‘unfavourable’ Internet contract government officials signed with Soliton Telmec, a Kenyan company.

The President, who chaired the Cabinet meeting on Monday, said he was the one who went to China to negotiate the Shs300b loan for the National Data Transmission Backbone Infrastructure and e-Government Infrastructure (NBI/EGI) project.

The deal, which includes building a smart parking platform, marks Kakao’s most substantial overseas move to date

Kakao Mobility Corp., which runs South Korea’s most popular ride-hailing app, Kakao T, has clinched a deal to build a future mobility infrastructure, including a smart parking platform, for Saudi Arabia’s $63 billion Diriyah development project.

The agreement with Diriyah marks Kakao Mobility’s most substantial overseas move to date, following taxi-hailing and rental car services in dozens of countries. It also reflects the increasing demand for Asian smart city expertise in the Middle East, where digital-first planning is reshaping the urban development landscape.

The minister made this promise on Friday in Lagos at an interactive meeting with journalists, she said the ministry was established as a result of years of agitations by the stakeholders for a supervising ministry to co-ordinate, facilitate and drive the development of the ICT sector.

Beneficiaries of the newly acquired capacity include the Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet) and the Government Electronic Network (GovNet), which are government-led projects established to improve online public service access and capability.

Beneficiaries of the newly acquired capacity include the Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet) and the Government Electronic Network (GovNet), which are government-led projects established to improve online public service access and capability.

The bandwidth will help MoRENet to deliver reliable and cost-effective, high-speed internet traffic to member institutions whilst creating the platform to share education and research content with other Nationwide Research Education Networks (NRENs) around the world.

The Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Nguyen Minh Hong, said, “In order to promote and exploit the modern IT infrastructure, city leaders need to continue encouraging implementation of ICT in all sectors of the economy, by providing online information and services to enhance the government transparency, and serve residents and businesses better.”

Amy Adams, New Zealand's ICT minister, on Thursday said that over 100,000 homes, businesses and schools can connect to the government Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) network, up from the 76,000 premises it said the network passed in August.

Leading the deployment charge is Chorus, a new wholesale company created when Telecom New Zealand divested the business last year, with 72,000 premises connected. Enable Networks, the fiber operator subsidiary of Christchurch City Holdings Limited, has made 1,021 connections.

The Federal Government has given the final approval for the deployment of phase 2 of the National ICT Infrastructure Backbone (NICTIB) Project of the Federal Secretariats across the country by Galaxy backbone limited.

The phase two of the project has been on-going with Galaxy Backbone Limited which earlier targeted March 2019 for overall completion of the project.

In the modern world, it takes the audacity of leadership vision to build a connected smart city. Today, Lagos State is blazing the trail in Nigeria. In one of the most audacious Telecom infrastructure projects in Africa, the Lagos State government under its public private partnership scheme awarded, a few years ago, the construction of a 3000km six-way unified duct fibre infrastructure project to Western Telecoms and Engineering Services Limited.

The project deployment kicked off in June 2020 with an 24-month completion timeline and has so far recorded several successes, such as the completion of over 2600km of the fibre infrastructure, the connection of over 1000 Telecom base station sites of MTN and Airtel to the fibre infrastructure, the signing of agreements with Liquid Telecom, Mainone, Dolphin Telecoms, Swift, Spectranet, etc for connectivity to the fibre network and ongoing negotiations with most of the mobile network operators and internet service providers in Lagos.

Governor Fayemi will be performing the ground-breaking ceremony of the Phase 1 of the optical fibre cable laying project for Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Tuesday.

The federal government has said going by its projections, digital economy would contribute more than 45 per cent to the Gross Domestic Products (GDP) given that the contributions of the ICT sector to the GDP stands at 17 per cent.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, who disclosed this at the weekend, noted the COVID 19 pandemic is fast-tracking adoption of digital technology in the country.

With the second phase of its 3,300km Metrofibre rollout and new AI-powered initiatives, Lagos accelerates its smart city agenda and public safety strategy.

The Lagos State Government has activated a 24-hour intelligent traffic enforcement system and launched Phase 2 of its ambitious 3,300-kilometre Metrofibre Project, marking a major step in its smart city transformation and digital infrastructure agenda.

Addressing a workshop organised to mark the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) here on Friday, Paudel called on to bring projects for laying optical fibre along highways and feeder roads. “The government will arrange the required funds,” he said.

The project, which would connect all the 53 nations of the African Union (AU) by a satellite and fiber-optic network, is to provide tele-education, tele-medicine, internet, Nideo-conferencing and VOIP services, and also support e-governance, e-commerce and effective communication among the nations.

Two South Korean companies have expressed interest to partner with the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) for infrastructure and smart city development projects in New Clark City in Tarlac and Poro Point in La Union.

In a statement yesterday, the state-run firm said BCDA president and CEO Joshua Bingcang and officer-in-charge senior vice president Mark Torres met with engineering and consulting firm Moon Engineering Co. Ltd. to discuss the conduct of a feasibility study for the upgrade of the San Fernando Airport in the Poro Point Freeport Zone.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday asked the Ministry of Information and Technology to ensure reliable and cheap broadband connectivity across the country, particularly in remote areas, to ensure availability of digital facilities to the common man.

Addressing a ceremony at a contract signing of Broadband for Sustainable Development Projects in FATA; Khyber, Mohmand Agency, and DI Khan, the prime minister commended the initiative and said it would help bridge the gap between the urban and rural areas by providing modern facilities to the people at their doorstep.