This archive report was first published on 29 September 2019.
Published on September 29, 2019, Kenya's Konza Smart City is set to borrow ideas from a campus in China's Shenzhen City to lift it to a technology hub in Africa.
Officials from the Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) recently visited the Huawei campus in Shenzhen City, where they witnessed the campus's adaptation to technology and industrialisation.
The Huawei campus has seen its population grow from about 300,000 to 16 million people in the 40 years, with 90 percent of them being youth entrepreneurs.
Ms Pamela Tutui, a director at KoTDA, said the team was making 'some good progress' in achieving the dream of developing Konza Smart City.
Ms Tutui added that KoTDA was collaborating with Huawei to develop Konza, with the aim of creating a smart city that would have facilities like hotels, housing facilities, and office blocks.
The government has allocated Sh10 billion towards the project, but procurement and other administrative bureaucracies have delayed programmes.
Mr Dalmar Abdi, communications director at Huawei Technologies Kenya, said the firm had completed the installation of modern communication technologies to actualise the Konza Smart City.
