Future Cities Africa podcast

Prof. Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu is a Professor of Town and Regional Planning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, SARChI Chair for Inclusive Cities and Academic Leader for Planning and Housing. We explore the challenges keeping us from inclusive cities, what can be done to solve the challenges, improving the role of local authorities in inter-governmental dialogues and how to build cities that respond to the people’s needs.

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Richard Gevers is the Founder of Open Cities Lab, a civic technology lab with a focus on the development of open data for application to urban challenges operating within cities in Africa. We explore many projects they are involved in, overcoming the general ‘fear of data’, how to improve public private sector collaboration on Open Data and how cities may change over the next 5 years.

See show notes: https://futurecitiesafrica.com/discussions/richard-gevers-informed-decision-making-for-participatory-democracy.php  Website: https://futurecitiesafrica.com  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureCitiesAfrica 

Bronwyn Williams is an Economist, Futurist, Trend Analyst and Partner at Flux Trends. They recently published 21 trends for 2021 and a key trend that stood out for us was: Private Cities.

In this episode we dive deep into the emergence of Private Cities in Africa and what the not so distant future may hold:

• What is a Private City and how is it different to the cities we are used to? • What a Private City looks like in the African context. • Real world examples of Private Cities. • Private Cities and the issue around inclusion. • The double-edged sword of Private Cities. • How government might react to Private Cities. • How can this go horribly wrong in Africa? • What will go extinct in our cities over the next 5 years? Spoiler: Some actual cities… • 1 book to that will prepare you for what may lie ahead over the next 5 years. Spoiler: The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. Website: https://futurecitiesafrica.com  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureCitiesAfrica

We explore the typical architecture and technological layers of a ‘Smart City’, his definition of a ‘Smart City’ in the African context, what will help us become smarter cities, improving Public - Private sector collaboration, how the Internet of Things will impact Africa over the next 5 years, the one thing he would change with his magic wand and what he hopes to see happen over the next 5 years.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Digital Council Africa Website: https://futurecitiesafrica.com  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureCitiesAfrica 

7 thought leaders explain the one thing they would change if magic wands existed.

Show Guests Include: * Juanita Clark is the Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Council Africa. * Vino Govender is Executive for Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation at Dark Fibre Africa. * Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina is a multi-disciplinary scholar-practitioner currently occupied in several capacities working at the intersection between people, place and technological change, focusing on the global south. * Steve Apps is a Smart City and Industry 4.0 technology expert. He’s past CTO of Huawei Southern Africa for government services. * Bronwyn Williams is a Partner at Flux Trends. She's a Futurist, Economist and Business Trends Analyst. * Dmitry Pozhidaev is Global Advisor at UN Capital Development Fund, he’s based in Uganda.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Digital Council Africa. Website: https://futurecitiesafrica.com  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureCitiesAfrica 

11 thought leaders share their definitions of what the term ‘Smart City’ consists of in an African context.

Show Guests Include:

* Musa Khumalo is the Group Head for Shared Services at the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. * Craig Kesson is Executive Director for Corporate Services at the City of Cape Town. * Vino Govender is Executive for Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation at Dark Fibre Africa. * Bronwyn Williams is a Partner at Flux Trends. She's a Futurist, Economist and Business Trends Analyst. * Steve Apps is a Smart City and Industry 4.0 technology expert. He’s past CTO of Huawei Southern Africa for government services. * Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina is a multi-disciplinary scholar-practitioner currently occupied in several capacities working at the intersection between people, place and technological change, focusing on the global south * Dr. Marco Macagnano is the Smart Cities Leader at Deloitte Consulting * Bob van Bebber is a Director at Boogertman + Partners Architects and overall winner of the 2019 SA Professional Services Awards. * Dr. Oualid Ali is the President at the Future Cities Council. * Jonathan Wilson is the Urban Data Project Manager at the South African Cities Network (SACN). * Dmitry Pozhidaev is Global Advisor at UN Capital Development Fund, he’s based in Uganda.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Digital Council Africa. Website: https://futurecitiesafrica.com  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureCitiesAfrica 

9 thought leaders share their insights on how public - private sector collaboration can be improved and how challenges can be overcome.

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Guests include: * Steve Apps is a Smart City and Industry 4.0 technology expert. He’s past CTO of Huawei Southern Africa for government services. * Omeshnee Naidoo is Director of Information Systems and Technology at City of Cape Town * Vino Govender is Executive for Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation at Dark Fibre Africa * Craig Kesson is Executive Director for Corporate Services at the City of Cape Town * Juanita Clark is the Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Council Africa. * Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina is a multi-disciplinary scholar-practitioner currently occupied in several capacities working at the intersection between people, place and technological change, focusing on the global south. * Rehana Moosajee is the founder at The Barefoot Facilitator and a past Member of the Mayoral Committee of the City of Johannesburg. * Thulani Kuzwayo is Co-Founder of PaperThinkLAB and served as the WorldGBC Africa Regional Network Chairperson. * Dr. Marco Macagnano is the Smart Cities Leader at Deloitte Consulting.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Digital Council Africa.

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Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned keynote speaker and futurist consultant that shows you the future trends that shape impactful organizations, trillion-dollar companies and progressive governments. We discuss the type of future city that Africa needs, explosive growth expected in Africa, lessons from global smart city initiatives, the world in 400 years, cities in 2040 and shifting mindsets from ‘’what is’’ to ‘’what if’’.

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Ronak Gopaldas is a Director at Signal Risk, an exclusively African risk advisory firm. His work focuses on the intersection of politics, economics and business on the continent. We discuss the biggest economic challenges currently facing the African continent, how we’ll get to the predicted Mega Cities in Africa, if the African Continental Free Trade Agreement will survive the pandemic, how Africa has managed the pandemic relative to other regions of the world, where Africa features in post-pandemic geopolitics and practical strategies Africa can implement to thrive in the post-pandemic world.

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Steve Apps is a Smart City and Industry 4.0 technology expert. He’s a past CTO of Huawei Southern Africa for government services. He was also executive for ecosystems and solutions at SqwidNet, rolling out the SIGFOX IoT network across South Africa. We explore what will stop us from becoming smarter cities, financial models and how future cities can be funded, improving public/ private sector collaboration, current state of IoT in Africa, civilization engineering, the role of Blockchain in Africa’s future, what Steve would change if he had a magic wand and his vision of future African cities. Website: https://futurecitiesafrica.com  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureCitiesAfrica