Instead of highfalutin proposals like building a ‘smart city’, Cyril and Co should figure out how to build toilets
There’s a theory about why Dubai looks the way it does, namely, like a hundred shiny suppositories pointed at the sun.
In a nutshell, it’s all about who got to Arabia’s oil first, which history and rising damp in Miami tell us was the US. (The British Empire, believing that industry would forever be powered by weak tea, failed to dispatch the necessary bribes and gunboats in time.)
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In response to the overwhelming demand for contemporary, fit-for-purpose digital and IT education offerings, MANCOSA (a proud member of the Honoris United Universities network) launched the School of Information and Digital Technology (SIDT) on September 1.
The rapid growth of information and digital technologies, perpetuated through the emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), has the ability to bring about widespread change for the better.
Huawei South Africa, in partnership with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, has officially launched the Women4Tech digital skills training programme, with an attendance of 107 women entrepreneurs. This initiative aims to help women advance their skills and use new technologies to grow, improve, and digitise their businesses.
The programme aims to help tech-forward women entrepreneurs with three specific technological skillsets: cloud computing, digital marketing, and introduction to app development. Aside from the training, the attended will also be afforded a networking opportunity with other successful women entrepreneurs, including an award-winning woman app developer within the Huawei Mobile App ecosystem.
The University of Pretoria (UP) has created the Hatfield Digital Twin City, which it plans to use to improve service delivery with the help of smart technology.
To manage the expansion of cities and megacities in this era of technological disruption, rapid urbanisation and climate change, new ideas and approaches to city management are being implemented worldwide, notably the smart city and the digital twin city.
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The city you live in is unique – from its architecture to public spaces to how utility services are delivered. As much as each has a distinct vibe, all have one thing that binds them.
It is a common objective. Cities must provide resources and utility services to everyone within their boundaries. If you have heard of or played the video game SimCity, you will know that this includes affordable living spaces, food, transportation, security, electricity, water, sanitation and job opportunities.