Nairobi is the only African city to make it to the world's top21 "intelligent communities" The Kenyan capital, however, missed out of the top seven finalists
"CNN Marketplace Africa covers the macro trends impacting the region and also focuses on the continent's key industries and corporations."
(CNN)For a second year in a row, Kenya's busy capital city of Nairobi has been named the most intelligent city in Africa -- failing, however, to make it to the world's top seven finalists.
According to the Intelligent Community Forum, "intelligent communities" are those that have taken "conscious steps" to create an economy that can prosper in the "broadband economy." The group has recently released its latest rankings, recognizing the achievements of communities that have built inclusive, prosperous economies on a basis of information and communication technologies.
Nairobi was the only African city to appear on their shortlist of 21 hubs throughout the world for 2015.
Intelligent Community Forum co-founder Robert Bell says: "We see a strong foundation being put into place [in Nairobi]: sensible, pro-growth government policy, a more diversified economy, and an innovation ecosystem of startups, international companies and universities.
"Nairobi certainly has the opportunity to build an exciting future for its citizens, businesses and institutions."
The Kenyan capital, however, didn't make it to the next round that will see seven communities around the world contesting in June for the 2015 Intelligent Community of the Year award -- in alphabetical order, the 2015 Top7 Intelligent Communities were Arlington County (U.S.), Columbus, (U.S.), Ipswich (Australia), Mitchell (U.S.), New Taipei City (Taiwan), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Surrey (Canada).
Click through the gallery to find out more about how Nairobi is dealing with the challenges of the broadband economy.
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Beautiful images of African women and their developing nations. Cant wait until Angola and Nigeria reach first world.
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quote:Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: The world Bank is called the world Bank because anyone including non Africans can take money from it although I do not recommend it for obvious reasons,there is no denial that much poverty is in Africa we have all seen it but what of the poverty in Euro dominated lands despite getting raw materials from Africa at the lowest prices possible, if Africans ever decide they are going to charge anything approaching a fair price for their minerals then I suspect you C.T will be on that first plane to Africa anywhere looking for a job.The vid is a win it shows how images can be manipulated into not showing the entire picture .
Proof that education is misguided and fails to teach students, TO USE THEIR MINDS!
You are such a dumb ****! The world bank distributes DEBT, and nothing else.
Each loan represents a mountain of debt where the borrower will be steeped in repayment interest payments which alone will siphon off any profits the borrowing country produces.
Accepting a loan from the Jew controlled World Bank is akin to selling your country, it's commerce, and it's people.
Showing World Bank funded growth is nothing but an illusion.
Show me an African country which mints and distributes it's own Gold or Silver based currency, and then I'll show you a country that has REAL growth and independence from albino control and influence.
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quote:Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: The world Bank is called the world Bank because anyone including non Africans can take money from it although I do not recommend it for obvious reasons,there is no denial that much poverty is in Africa we have all seen it but what of the poverty in Euro dominated lands despite getting raw materials from Africa at the lowest prices possible, if Africans ever decide they are going to charge anything approaching a fair price for their minerals then I suspect you C.T will be on that first plane to Africa anywhere looking for a job.The vid is a win it shows how images can be manipulated into not showing the entire picture .
Proof that education is misguided and fails to teach students, TO USE THEIR MINDS!
You are such a dumb ****! The world bank distributes DEBT, and nothing else.
Each loan represents a mountain of debt where the borrower will be steeped in repayment interest payments which alone will siphon off any profits the borrowing country produces.
Accepting a loan from the Jew controlled World Bank is akin to selling your country, it's commerce, and it's people.
Showing World Bank funded growth is nothing but an illusion.
Show me an African country which mints and distributes it's own Gold or Silver based currency, and then I'll show you a country that has REAL growth and independence from albino control and influence.
This is non-sense.Your views are incorrect non-sense.Why would anybody listen to a doom and gloom person? Not me and i hope others with common sense or enough of it don't either. The world is interconnected now. There is no true economic independence like it was in the past anymore. There are some folks that say asia or japan controls the u.s.a. etc..and of course that's non-sense too. Stop with the paranoid talk.Folks of your ilk never talk about what africa is trying to do. All you do is talk about what africa is not doing or doing a enough of and ignore the positive what africa is doing and trying to do. Enough of that crap. The black african nations are independent and not controlled by whites but of course there are strong influences from the west but african nations and other nations have strong enough influences in the west too because of the growing economies of afica and asia and elsewhere. Take your africa is doom and gloom talk somewhere else. Africa is on rise and it's not doom and gloom anyway.
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Economic interdependence The Evolution of Economic Interdependence Global economic interdependence has grown exponentially in the span of a generation, as a result of great technological progress and associated policies that were aimed at opening national economies internally and externally to global competition. Paehlke notes that investment and international trade have drastically increased over the last 100 of years except during the World War I and World War II.Over time, economic interdependence has incorporated other aspects that were brought about by contemporary globalisation - as a result of the onset of the age of computerisation, telecommunications and low-cost travel and shipping. As international trade have been increasing at a rate beyond 8% during the 1950s to 1970s, and has also been driven by improvements in information technology in the 1990s, economic interdependence between countries have increased even more rapidly. Given such rapid increase in international trade and capital flows that are traditionally associated with globalisation, there has been increasing interest in the issues of financial and economic interdependence, partly driven by the contagion that resulted from the financial crisis.
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This whole thread is an opinion of the meaning of success from a females shallow interpretation. For a female, success means acquiring material nonsense and giving in to the status quo. If we left it up to females, Negroes would be enslaved and submissive until the end of time.
Using this hallow measuring barometer, African Americans, who generate over $1T per year of revenue have really succeeded, but we all should know that this is hardly true. How much of the $1Trillion dollars per year do African Americans actually retain? Hardly any, because the females spend it all every year to buy junk like been posted above. When you transition from spending 95% to retaining 95%, then you know you are being successful,, but a man has got a hell of a job to do to get females to sacrifice and do that.
This thread reads like an Essence or Ebony magazine. Shallow, filled with fluff, with zero substance.
I really hope Firewall is female, else he's one feminine minded queer.
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quote:Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: The world Bank is called the world Bank because anyone including non Africans can take money from it although I do not recommend it for obvious reasons,there is no denial that much poverty is in Africa we have all seen it but what of the poverty in Euro dominated lands despite getting raw materials from Africa at the lowest prices possible, if Africans ever decide they are going to charge anything approaching a fair price for their minerals then I suspect you C.T will be on that first plane to Africa anywhere looking for a job.The vid is a win it shows how images can be manipulated into not showing the entire picture .
Proof that education is misguided and fails to teach students, TO USE THEIR MINDS!
You are such a dumb ****! The world bank distributes DEBT, and nothing else.
Each loan represents a mountain of debt where the borrower will be steeped in repayment interest payments which alone will siphon off any profits the borrowing country produces.
Accepting a loan from the Jew controlled World Bank is akin to selling your country, it's commerce, and it's people.
Showing World Bank funded growth is nothing but an illusion.
Show me an African country which mints and distributes it's own Gold or Silver based currency, and then I'll show you a country that has REAL growth and independence from albino control and influence.
This is non-sense.Your views are incorrect non-sense.Why would anybody listen to a doom and gloom person? Not me and i hope others with common sense or enough of it don't either. The world is interconnected now. There is no true economic independence like it was in the past anymore. There are some folks that say asia or japan controls the u.s.a. etc..and of course that's non-sense too. Stop with the paranoid talk.Folks of your ilk never talk about what africa is trying to do. All you do is talk about what africa is not doing or doing a enough of and ignore the positive what africa is doing and trying to do. Enough of that crap. The black african nations are independent and not controlled by whites but of course there are strong influences from the west but african nations and other nations have strong enough influences in the west too because of the growing economies of afica and asia and elsewhere. Take your africa is doom and gloom talk somewhere else. Africa is on rise and it's not doom and gloom anyway.
You don't have any idea of what you are talking about. No clue. Else, you wouldn't be posting this useless and trivial nonsense showing debt as success.
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By the way i did not start this thread.I did not post anything about debt.You got the wrong guy.Again you have no creditably.Who are you again? Oh, right, nobody. Just some guy or girl who could say anything and don't have the facts. You talking and not saying anything positive and constructive.Like i said,your posts and replies about africa progress is incorrect and full of lies. You sound jealous of africa's success and you are either a self hating black man/woman or a someone pretending to be black. You don't have africa's interest at heart.Anything they do it seems it's not good enough for you and folks like you, so you are a waste of time.
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This what i like to focus on. What africa is doing and trying to do for the future. Of course you have to or could talk about the problems,but not make up stuff.If problems are talked about it,i want to hear solutions and what is being done. BECAUSE STUFF IS BEING DONE. Africans are not sitting around all day begging for handouts. Stop the propaganda and lies. I have a feeling that those who always talk about the bad are jealous or have nothing going on with thier miserable lives so they feel they have a need to try to bring others down. It's not working anyway. Folks move on,africans move on like they always done in history.
List of currencies in Africa African currency was originally formed from basic items, materials, animals and even people available in the locality to create a medium of exchange. This started to change from the 17th century onwards, as European colonial powers introduced their own monetary system into the countries they administered. As African countries achieved independence during the 20th century, some retained the new denominations that had been introduced, though others renamed their currencies for various reasons. Today inflation often creates a demand for more stable (but forbidden) foreign currency, while in rural areas the original bartering system is still in widespread usage. As of January 1, 2013, the Zambian Kwacha (ZMW) has the strongest currency in Africa.
African History In pre-colonial times African currency included shells, ingots, Gold (gold dust and gold coins (the Asante)), arrowheads, iron, salt, cattle, goats, blankets, axes, beads, and many others. In the early 19th century a slave could be bought in West Africa with manilla currency; multiples of X-shaped rings of bronze or other metal that could be strung on a staff. During Colonial times (roughly from 1680 to 1990) the respective colonial powers introduced their own currencies to their colonies or produced local versions of their currencies. Examples include the Somali shilling; the Italian East African lira; and the African franc (in Francophone countries). Many post-colonial governments have retained the name and notional value unit system of their prior colonial era currency. For example, the British West African pound was replaced by the Nigerian pound which was divided into shillings, before being replaced by the Naira.
A different trend is seen when the predominant foreign power relationship changes, causing a change in the currency: the East African rupee (from long-term trade with Arabia and India) was replaced by the East African shilling after the British became the predominant power in the region. Other countries threw off the dominant currency of a neighbour; the Botswana pula replaced the South African rand in Botswana in 1976. Some countries have not changed their currency despite being post-colonial, for example Uganda retains the Ugandan shilling.
Many African countries change their currency's appearance when a new government takes power (often the new head of state will appear on bank notes), though the notional value remains the same. Also, in many African currencies there is such rampant inflation that re-valuing must take place every so often (viz. the Zimbabwe dollar). There is a thriving street trade by unlicensed street traders in US dollars or other stable currency, which are seen as a hedge against local inflation. The exchange rate is grossly more favourable to the seller of the foreign currency than is the official bank rate, and is usually labelled a crime.
In many rural areas there is still a strong bartering culture, the exchanged items being of more immediate value than official currency (following the principle that one can eat a chicken, but not a coin). Even where currency is used, haggling over prices is very common. This is in contrast with the pre-independence Rhodesian dollar which was always a strong currency linked to the British pound.
There is a planned West African Monetary Zone among Anglophone African countries planned for implementation in 2009. Similarly in East Africa, the member countries of the East African Community plan to introduce a single currency, the East African Shilling in 2012.
# Afro The African Monetary Union is the proposed creation of an economic and monetary union for the countries of the African Union, administered by the African Central Bank. Such a union would call for the creation of a new unified currency, similar to the euro; the hypothetical currency is sometimes referred to as the afro or afriq.
The Abuja Treaty, an international agreement signed on June 3, 1991 in Abuja, Nigeria, created the African Economic Community, and called for an African Central Bank to follow by 2028. The current plan is to establish an African Economic Community with a single currency by 2023.
Regional currency unions
There are two existing regional currency unions in Africa, using the West African CFA franc, and the Central African CFA franc, respectively. Additionally, the Common Monetary Area links several countries in southern Africa based on the South African rand.
The African Union's plans for further integration encourage the development of more such regional unions as an intermediate step to full monetary union. One proposed union is the eco, a proposed currency for members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
AFRO prototype art project In 2002, Mansour Ciss and Baruch Gottlieb created a "prototype" currency, called the AFRO, which they presented at the Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art on May 10, 2002.The project was a response to the perceived lack of independence created by use of the CFA franc. Notes and coins of the imaginary currency were produced, and given away or sold to the people of Dakar and Senegal to encourage them "to reflect on the meaning (value) of money and the future of their own local currency".
Membership
So far only 3 of the 53 member states of the African Union have committed to using the currency[citation needed]. Egypt, Swaziland, and Lesotho have logged reservations over the precise date of monetary union and have requested a two- to three-year delay. Seychelles may not join as a result of economic fears and may, along with Cape Verde, attempt to join the euro at a later date, while the official currency of Mayotte is the euro.
African Central Bank The African Central Bank (ACB) is one of the three financial institutions of the African Union. It will over time take over responsibilities of the African Monetary Fund. The creation of the ACB, to be completed by 2028 was first agreed upon in the 1991 Abuja Treaty. The 1999 Sirte Declaration called for a speeding up of this process with creation by 2020. When it is fully implemented via Pan-African Parliament legislation, the ACB will be the sole issuer of the African single currency (African Monetary Union/Afro), will become the banker of the African Government, will be the banker to Africa's private and public banking institutions, will regulate and supervise the African banking industry, and will set the official interest and exchange rates; in conjunction with the African Government's administration. The current timeline established by the Abuja Treaty calls for a single African currency to be instituted by the African Central Bank by 2028.[citation needed] Although some countries have reservations about full economic and monetary union, a number of regional unions already exist, and others are planned.
Proposed currencies
# Afro # East African shilling, for the East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda).
# Eco, for the West African Monetary Zone (Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, possibly Liberia).
# Metica, in Mozambique.
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quote:Originally posted by Narmerthoth: ^ Sorry, but you contribute nothing to the site, no one knows or listens to you, and what you've posted has zero intellectual value.
In your simple mind, a female's ability to buy/wear/sell/showcase a dress is a sign of success. That's too shallow to be worthy of comment.
LOL, I shouldn't even be in this feminist thread. Cya.
Someone could say the same thing to you pal. By the way you are wrong again.Take your africa and african hating and black hating self (if you are black)out of the thread. You are just as bad as that racist fool Real tawk.Real tawk and his incorrect,wrong racist views.
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