In line with its ‘Smart City’ agenda, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has launched a state-of-the-art hybrid solar system at Mulago School of the deaf and Ntinda school of the deaf. The system was financed by a donation from the European Union and Green Energy.
While launching the system, the Executive Director of the authority, Dorothy Kisaka, was in the company of Mayor Nakawa, Paul Mugambe, and Olive Namazzi, the KCCA Executive Secretary in charge of education and public health.
Read more: UG: Smart City: KCCA launches hybrid solar system
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) executive director, Dorothy Kisaka has revealed that the Authority will focus on infrastructure, technology, and people’s well-being in promoting a smart city in the New Year, 2023.
Kisaka tells KFM that the authority wants to promote a conducive business and healthy environment for the city residents.
Read more: UG: Smart City: Kampala Capital City Authority to focus on infrastructure, technology
What you need to know:
- Urbanisation contributes to better economic outcomes, but if not well harnessed, the reverse can be true.
Traffic congestion continues to be one of the major concerns in Kampala and the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA), imposing delays in travel, economic losses, loss of man-hours that would have been used efficiently, and accidents that sometimes result in permanent injuries and death.
Read more: UG: Kampala: Improving traffic flow for a smart city
What you need to know:
- Smart cities use modern technology to improve efficiency, share well-timed information with the public, offer better services while promoting economic growth and quality of life for citizens.
- Cities around the world have adopted or begun planning multi-billion smart city programmes.
For the last few years, authorities in Kampala have embarked on several projects to improve the city. One of these is the smart city project.
Read more: UG: How govt plans to turn Kampala into a smart city
What you need to know:
- The programmes are expected to further support the attainment of the Lira City Council’s goal of increased household incomes, and improved quality of life of residents.
Lira District leaders have listed key priority programmes that they say if effectively implemented in the next financial year, will make Lira City a clean, green, smart and eco-friendly urban settlement.