Li Peng, President of Eastern and Southern Africa, Huawei, has described innovative ICT infrastructure as the foundation of building safe smart cities. He said this while speaking at the company’s Safe City Africa Summit that was held in Cape Town, South Africa.
The summit has become a platform for more than 400 industry members to share insights, development trends and global success stories on public safety in cities and discuss ways to reduce crimes and reinforce city safety through establishing innovative ICT safe city solution.
Peng said: “Huawei would like to reiterate our commitment to work hand-in-hand with our partners to provide Africa with innovative one-stop safe city solution. These solutions will help to build safer and more harmonious urban residential, business and tourism environments to attract investment and increase employment for sustainable economic development.”
According to him, the acceleration of global urbanization and the proliferation of the internet will drive the convergence of ICT and urban infrastructure.
“Countries worldwide are actively formulating plans for the development of safe and smart cities to seize new opportunities generated by global urbanization,” he said.
At the Summit, safe city project leaders from across the world including Madagascar, Kenya, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom shared their experience on ICT best practices to enhance public safety with innovative ICT.
