By Fadekemi Ajakaiye
If you are a Nigerian born long before the late 1990s, you probably remember the excitement that met mobile telephone introduction into the market back in 2001. You probably remember that many people did not own landlines at the time, so expectations were high. But today, Nigeria has about 36% smartphone adoption rate.
This is the type of trend ‘Smart Cities’ will set in the coming future. To understand how, let us review some of the trends that led to the emergence of smart cities around the world.
In 2019, the UN report on World Urbanization Prospects stated that by 2050, there will be very few countries where rural dwellers are expected to be higher than urban. Some of these countries are across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Pacific Island states, and Guyana in Latin America.
The Council has written to elected members to explain the benefits of the controversial project. By Cónal Thomas Monday 18 Jan 2021, 12:55 PM Jan 18th 2021, 12:55 PM 41,964 Views 93 Comments Source: Dublin City Council
DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL has hit out at “hostile” commentary surrounding plans for a controversial white-water rafting facility at George’s Dock.
The cost of the project has grown from an initial estimate of €12 million to €25 million, contract tenders issued by the Council last week reveal.
The Council is seeking expressions of interest from construction firms to complete the development, which the Council estimates will take 18 months to build. The anticipated start date on works is this autumn.
HEALTH/WEALNESS & SPORT
xRapid Group is an Artificial Intelligence-based startup focused on automated diagnosis for the microscopy industry. Initially created to diagnose Malaria,
xRapid has grown by providing rapidly deployable and scalable solutions in the health and environmental hygiene industries. This year, xRapid was awarded a
CES 2021 Innovations Award for xRblood Pro and last year, a
CES 2020 Innovations Award for
xRblood, the first self-testing machine able to perform a blood check at home using our patented Artificial Intelligence and the predecessor of
xBlood Pro. The company comes to the show with another award-winning product: the
xHale mask designed by subsidiary company NGNR, stay tuned for more coverage.
Nagpur: The Indian Railways maiden draft National Rail Plan (NRP) released on Friday aims to develop Nagpur-Hyderabad (NHIC) & Delhi-Nagpur (DNIC) as industrial corridors under its National Industrial Corridor Development Programme.
The NRP released by Railway Board CEO VK Yadav plans India s most ambitious infrastructure program aiming to develop new industrial cities as ‘Smart Cities’ and converging next-generation technologies across infrastructure sectors.
The two industrial corridor projects are among 11 projects to be developed in four phases up to 2024-25. Apart from the two industrial corridors, the draft NRP also aims to establish a dedicated freight corridor (DFC) between North-South between Delhi-Chennai via Itarsi-Nagpur-Vijayawada.
Funds have been diverted, claims BJP
The TRS government has been totally neglecting the ‘Smart Cities’ project and despite the Central government allotting close to ₹500 crore as its share for taking up civic infrastructure in the cities of Warangal and Karimnagar, the State had failed to allot the matching grant sending the entire scheme into limbo, charged the TS BJP on Thursday.
“The Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development K.T. Rama Rao should either explain where these funds got diverted or should resign for failing to ensure these two cities civic infrastructure got developed. Warangal could have been spared of flooding if the storm water drain works were completed with these funds,” claimed official spokesman A. Rakesh Reddy at a press conference.