African Smart Cities

This Program offers mayors across countries to nominate their cities for benchmark and measurement within the continent. By joining this Program Mayors qualify to also join the Top-50 Global Program at the same time. The Covid-19 pandemic has reaffirmed the need for sustainable and resilient urban development strategies worldwide.

Mayors select and join this Program because they are at the beginning stage in the development of their cities on the path to becoming a smart city. Qualifying cities are presented each year for the top country smart cities. In African countries, where urban growth, combined with the transformation of the rural world, and rapid population growth are confronting cities with major socio-economic and environmental challenges.

In an increasingly urban world, where 70% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050, cities are on the front line of development challenges like the impacts of climate change, increasing human mobility, population growth, and growing social inequalities.