NEXTEC on Building African Smart Cities

<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sean Bennet is Group Executive for NEXTEC, an entity of the EOH group. We discuss how NEXTEC helps in building smarter African cities.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Listen or watch to understand:</strong></span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sean’s definition of a Smart City in the African context.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How cities can better leverage technology to make cities smarter, enable economic transformation and help make cities more inclusive.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">SA’s world class connectivity.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lack of efficient digital infrastructure in secondary cities/towns and townships, what is currently holding back progress and what success will look like.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How blockchain could overnight make corruption virtually impossible and give the world renewed confidence in the African continent.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">One thing Sean would change if he had a magic wand</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Progress expected in the Smart City space over the next few years.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Visit www.futurecitiesafrica.com</span></p>