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By 2030 , 60 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. As the world rapidly urbanizes, cities have to provide basic social services while simultaneously driving sustainable and inclusive growth. This can be achieved with the right technologies. Today we are deeply going to explore a new app built to improve public service delivery in cities in Africa. Urb App is Africa's first community participation platform for urban areas. The goal of Urb is to put public service accountability in the hands of citizens. Citizens set the agenda for change in their communities by sharing and reporting issues that affect them, and public service providers and policy makers directly engage with citizens for a more inclusive approach to better service delivery. This makes for better, smarter cities.   Authorities and service providers can respond to issues in real-time. The collective action by citizens to speak about their issues drives public service providers to be b...

By Mwebya Fred : When one tells you how clean and organized the Capital City of Rwanda is , its a very understatement because Kigali is not only Clean and Organized , its a SMART city. Very quickly I will tell you as a visitor in Rwanda I was unable to use the Passenger Taxi Services because I did not have a smart card. Its a very funny story how I moved to a taxi stage after my First day at the Transform Africa Summit only to quickly realize that everyone who was at the stage had a tap and pay card used in clearing taxi charges. Rwanda is quickly driving out cash transactions by embracing smarter payment methods like using the Tap and Pay card technologies in their Passenger Taxis. Lessons1: Its possible to strengthen the economy by reducing the usage of cash transactions through adopting smarter payment systems and methods. During my walk about at the exhibition hall , I quickly moved to the Irembo online services stall. I was welcomed by a smiling gentleman who immedia...