NG: Anambra Launches Digital Gateway for Government Services and Open Data
Anambra State Government has launched a redesigned official website, creating a more accessible digital gateway to government services, information, opportunities and citizen engagement.
The new platform now live at https://anambrastate.gov.ng/, brings together key government services and digital platforms while providing residents, businesses, investors, visitors and development partners with a more structured way to navigate government.
South Africa unveils digital ID prototype, issues first credential
Home Affairs assesses digital transformation, outlines ID card roadmap
South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister, Leon Schreiber, has announced that the working prototype for the country’s smartphone-based digital ID has been built, with work underway for its pilot and eventual rollout at scale.
Schreiber made the announcement recently at Constitution Hill, where he presented an address midway into his mandate as home affairs minister, a role he assumed 27 months ago. His address, in the course of which a live demonstration of the new digital ID prototype was done, also provided a detailed assessment of the department’s digital transformation journey since taking over.
AE: Dubai: Why smart cities need to grow up
Dr Matthew Marson, Managing Director of Technology Consulting at JLL, tells AB Majlis why Dubai’s smart-city technology could add $6.9bn to its economy and why technology is becoming investable infrastructure
Smart cities have long been presented as visions of the future. For Dr Matthew Marson, Managing Director of Technology Consulting at JLL, the conversation must now become commercial.
“Smart-city technology has often been treated as experimental,” Marson told AB Majlis. “Cities have run pilots, but the investment has not always been assessed with the same discipline as other infrastructure.”
MY: Johor government to enhance ‘Smart City’ technology for early extreme weather warnings
Summary
- The Johor government plans to enhance its 'Smart City' technology by introducing early flood warning notifications sent directly to residents' mobile phones via a smart application.
- This initiative aims to promptly communicate urgent weather warnings, allowing residents to take quick action to protect lives and property.
- There is a focus on gathering mobile phone numbers to ensure the widespread dissemination of alerts, similar to the systems in Japan.
- Recent flash floods in Johor Bahru highlighted the need for improvement, as current sirens were insufficiently heard.
The Johor government will enhance its ‘Smart City’ technology to enable city residents to receive early flood warnings during extreme heavy rain that poses a risk of flash floods.
US: Ohio: Cincinnati: Rethinking smart cities: An open-source tool for urban data collection
A large part of urban planning involves navigating how people experience a place. That kind of insight can require collecting data at a level of detail that large-scale datasets cannot provide.
Henry Levesque is a doctoral student in Regional Development Planning at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP). He is exploring a different approach to smart-city data collection by developing an open-source tool designed to make that process more accessible. His research centers on an open-source, low-cost system that allows people to collect highly localized information about their environments and retain greater control over how that data is gathered and used.