Having read the Smart Kigali
Initiative story and appreciated it, I found that it has lot of important modern
things to borrow and learn for the purpose of making some development in our Tanzanian
cities.
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| The Kigamboni New Satellite City |
The Smart Kigali initiative which is based
in Kigali, the capital City of Rwanda, is equated with what the Government of Tanzania
is planning to introduce soon in the country. This is the project known as Kigamboni Satellite City Initiative.
Of course, the aims of
introducing the two initiatives might be more or less different. While the
Smart Kigali Initiative aim is to modernize the dwellers and visitors of the
City of Kigali through the use of ICT for better service delivery, the
Kigamboni Satellite City Initiative, on the other hand, aims at modernizing the
life of dwellers of Kigamboni City by empowering them to live in modern houses,
building an international habour, building modern roads, installing modern telecommunications
infrastructures and so forth.
For instance, when you imagine
about what is said about how the satellite city of Kigamboni will be, you find
that the government of Tanzania has good plans for the dwellers of Kigamboni
and all Tanzanians who will be going there to get their services. For that
matter, the government of Tanzania wants to make Kigamboni satellite city a
demonstration of how modern city should look like.
Nevertheless, the
government of Tanzania through its various ministries such as Land and Housing
has to borrow more good things that have already been implemented by the
government of Rwanda in the Smart Kigali Initiative. The good things that the
Tanzanian government needs to borrow are such as: installation of automated
taxi metres in taxicabs that will show amount of fare to be charged for a trip.
This will protect both drivers and passengers from conflicts. Other services
that need to be paid attention to by the Kigamboni Satellite City Initiative will
be to make sure financial services and electronic payment systems are offered
in modernized manner. Again, the
initiative should make sure there is high speed internet that will enable
internet users to run their businesses without problems.
