That play a crucial role in nurturing smart city conversations.

The six workshops I

cannot delve into each workshop for not to waste your time. I'm just making
sentences for six workshops. Amazing, inspiring, specialized workshops. I really was
thrilled to attend some of discussions. They were dense. The, I mean, the success of
the program that we tailored, it actually comes when you see the quality of
interaction to international experts once tackling that subject at hand. So the six
workshops showcased a rich diversity of such best practices and use cases from
across the world that could orient our thinking on a human centered smart disease in
Africa. These included, for instance, the incorporation of landscape practices, low
tech agriculture in Casablanca, adaptability in Simi City, Accanta's urban digital twin,
Savira's natural and cultural resilience approach and an exploration of integrated
sustainability and resilience in Washington mills to rural human establishments in the
vicinity of the green city. The last day commenced with a plenary tree on digital and
geospatial innovation, disruptive technologies for a better exploration of the city and
its territory. Where speakers highlighted the state of the art applications in exploring
smart city, the following workshops gave insightful case studies on the application of
geospatial technologies, enhancing urban and territorial performance, resilience and
sustainability. From all these rich and diverse interactions of the last three days, it is
fruitful to witness the shared vision of a human centered smart city emerging across
the world, and I would like to thank our dear governor. Since day one, he reminded
everyone that the smartness of the city is about the smartness of the people and we
cannot afford to live, definitely, especially in Africa. Synthesizing these, the following
recommendations emerge as pertinent to guide african cities towards our
exploration of the smart city concept and hence there are some elements or
takeaways, recommendations that would be so important that you recall we should
not recommendation one, takeaway one, we should not lose sight of the
development context of most of african cities and hence the need to develop a
contextually relevant and responsive smart city approach that is human centered,
just and inclusive for all. Number two, and all these points, please, they are your
discussions and all what we say here is this tell stems out of what you discussed. So
number two, recommendation the relevance of stating starting small, starting small,
especially in Africa, but with a big vision of a smart future. Not smart city, smart
future. Smart city. Just a vehicle, just a means, just a tool for a smart future, taking
into account the present and now conditions of people within cities. This means
ensuring that culture and human values are an integral part of any thinking and
development process of smart cities. Number three the need for concerted efforts
that are multi stakeholder, multidisciplinary, multiscalperate and multi sectoral to
address complex urban challenges holistically leveraging diverse expertise and

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resources to enhance the resilience of resilience and sustainability of cities. But not
only cities, please, because we should not forget the rural realm in Africa, hence and
other human establishments, the significance of knowledge sharing and capacity
building through establishing platforms for knowledge sharing and capacity building
to facilitate the exchange of best practices. Lesson learned innovative solutions
among cities, enabling them to learn from each other's experiences and build
collective resilience to disruptive forces. This underscores the significance of the
upcoming Africa smart meeting to assess our discussions, commitments and their
actual implementations. And therefore, please, as I discuss in the lamp table with
some police from sub saharan countries, that I really congratulate them and thank
them for being among us. The forum will not be just one, two, three days discussion,
but the forum will be a digital platform. Thanks to the digital revolution, the
community of the Africa Smart City Forum will be a continuous discussion, sharing of
ideas, sharing of projects with all african cities.

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