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Warren Hewitt is Chief Executive Officer at The Greater Tygerberg Partnership (GTP). We discuss the role of the GTP in unlocking Bellville's potential as a sustainable and prosperous leading African city, Bellville's culture and combined intellectual capital, attracting investment, working closely with the public sector, and many facts about Bellville.

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We explore:

This episode is presented in partnership with the City of Cape Town

• Major challenges faced and impacts of the pandemic and how the City is managing it.
• Scope and the key elements of the City's Transport Strategy for growth and recovery.
• Barriers that exist to the implementation of the strategy.
• How the City is responding to the crisis involving the Minibus Taxi industry.
• The City's response to criticism for only putting aside 2% of its budget for non motorised transport initiatives.
• The plan to accelerate Bellville PTI and Bellville as a hub - The Future Bellville Masterplan.
• Their views on the R300 Northern Extension.
• The Mitchells Plain TOC pilot and the City's plan for the future of the Minibus Taxi sector formalisation and modernisation.
• Views on the Province's Blue Dot Initiative.
• What the progress is for the City to take over the Management function of Rail.
• When the MyCiti Phase 2 will have the first wheels roll.
• Success stories from the sector.
• How the City is working with all industry stakeholders and what opportunities are there for collaboration.
• Main lessons taken from 2020 and the 1st half of 2021 and how the City can address them, to not only survive but thrive into the future.

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Monica Rolo is an Industrial Engineer at Curro Holdings, an independent school network in South Africa.

We discuss the societal needs addressed by Curro, the value in spatial representation of information for a school and how it enables them to identify and overcome key challenges, and much more.

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Carlo Barnard is Business Intelligence Specialist at Munsoft and a past municipal CFO at Victor Khanye Local Municipality. We discuss the value in spatial representation of information for a municipality, major challenges that can be visualised and solved, why collaboration between departments are important in the context of using technology, and much more.

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Craig Kesson is Executive Director for Corporate Services at the City of Cape Town.

We explore the thinking behind the City's Infrastructure Strategy, its scope and key elements, impacts of and lessons from the pandemic, a uniformed standard to Sector Plans, enabling innovation in alternative service delivery, reaching historically under-serviced areas, and more.

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Kadri Nassiep is Executive Director for Energy at City of Cape Town.

We explore the City's energy and sustainability strategy for growth and recovery, major challenges, energy independence, success stories, future technologies, opportunities for collaboration with private sector, and what the future can look like.

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Michael John Webster is Executive Director for Water and Waste at the City of Cape Town.

We explore the City's water strategy and key commitments, lessons from the 2018 water crisis, recent progress made, future thinking, new technologies, opportunities and challenges for private sector collaboration, and advice for cities grappling with water management.

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Joanne Parker is the project lead for SCODA at Open Cities Lab. Tshegang Chipeya is the project lead for the Durban EDGE Programme at eThekwini Municipality.

We explore what SCODA is, what it offers Cities, tools utilised in the Durban EDGE case and success stories, Open Data challenges at the municipal level and how they can be overcome.

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Nicolaas Klopper is Director at 1map. We explore the National Property Register and its importance to the management of a city, how maps make complex data less abstract and provide actionable insights that drive revenue and improve service delivery, and how Mapping will be transformed as part of everyones' workflow.

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Sarah Findlay is 'Africa Data Hub' Project Lead at Open Cities Lab. We explore the importance and key features of the Africa Data Hub, responsibly sourced data, enabling trust in the media, value offered by the African Data Hub, how to collaborate with them and their plans to have a quantifiable impact.

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