All over the World and in recent times, urban renewal and smart cities development has been in the front burner and evidently leading key discussions in the global real estate development conferences, seminars and webinars. As governments all of the economies of the World keep thinking on how to provide quality living for its citizens through urban renewal and smart cities development, urban renewal policies and by extension, smart cities developments have become an important part of government development policies aimed at engendering quality living for its fast-growing population. As long as the World population keeps growing in a geometrical trend, it will take strong urban renewal policies to engender sustainable housing and urban development.
Urban renewal entails the gradual redevelopment of areas with little or no property values with the primary objective of creating new and modern infrastructures that will engender development through strong and economically viable private sector participation, and generate revenue to the government through tax payment to the government. Most government urban renewal efforts have negative implications on the existing structures; in a bid to bring in development to an area, old structures must give way for the new ones especially in the area of road construction which is a very key element of urban renewal.
Weiterlesen: NG: Urban Renewal Policies: A Catalyst for Smart Cities Development
Smart Cities are not exactly new phenomena. Yet for many cities across the globe, the implementation of smart cities remains largely in the experimental stages. Others have blazed ahead and achieved great success. Smart cities have been used to solve issues relating to public administration, environmental and waste management, utilities, security, contactless payments, and healthcare. Barcelona, Singapore, Zurich (Switzerland), and Oslo (Norway) now sit comfortably atop the 2021 IMD-SUTD Smart City Index (SCI). Ranked 115th globally out of 118 countries in the SCI, Lagos for its part has only begun to skim the benefits of inroads into smart city technology. But for all its promise, the myriad infrastructural challenges typically associated with a developing nation’s commercial nerve center, hold the city firmly in its vice. Still, there is nowhere to go but up.
Weiterlesen: NG: Improved traffic management: A case for a smart city
Lagos state is one of the cities around the world that has attained the status of a mega city.
However, like other mega cities of the world, Lagos is faced with many challenges such as poor waste management, transport problems, insecurity and food crises.
Consequently, it needs to transform from a mega city to a smart city status wherein everything works seamlessly. To achieve this, Lagos needs to leverage technology to transform to a smart city.
Weiterlesen: NG: Leveraging Technology To Make Lagos A Smart City - Techuncode, Vatebra Hub
Wisdom Kwati Smart City has announced the launch of a new multi-million project called Hilltop Smart City to tackle housing deficit and expand to various locations within Nigeria.
The new project was officially unveiled in a groundbreaking ceremony in Abuja on October 13.
Weiterlesen: NG: Wisdom Kwati Smart City launches Hiltop Smart City
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reiterated that there is need to bridge the gap in the fiber optic cables needed to broaden the country’s broadband, stating that the country needs 120,000 additional kilometres of fibre optic cables to meet the New National Broadband Plan (NNBP) 2025 target.
It added that there was need for massive investments in about 40,000 additional Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) for the country to realise its plan on broadband penetration.
Weiterlesen: ‘Nigeria in need of 120,000kms of fibre optic cables’