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Unlocking the Potential of African Cities Towards
Smart, Sustainable, Inclusive and Prosperous Cities |
Global Observatory linking Research to Action
For the People Agenda |
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In the for the African cities covered in this book, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar and Lagos, a smart city is viewed as a sustainable, inclusive and prosperous city that promotes a people-centric approach. Read more.
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The book Smart Economy in Smart Cities is the product of in depth city research case studies in 13 cities to explain how a smart economy changes the urban spatial system and vice versa. Read more.
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The Digital Urbanization
From big cities to digitally served towns and villages 
Chapter 33 of Smart Economy in Smart Cities and Contribution to the Future Earth Project , September 2016.
The President of GORA Corp at the Annual Conference of the World Bank-IMF Senegalese Association in collaboration with the Senegal Embassy in Washington DC and the General Delegation of the Urban Pole. Listen to the speakers.
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Heritage and Culture for
Smart, Safe and Vibrant Cities Heritage & culture play a key role on smart , safe & vibrant cities, but they are often overlooked components of urban living.
Land and Housing: The Hidden Assets
Land and housing assets constitute more than half of people’s wealth. With functioning institutions and laws providing legal propriety rights, revenues from land and housing can contribute to the planning, management and provision of services in settlements. read more |
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After two years of working together, UN-Habitat and GORA Corp have decided to strengthen their collaboration through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on 19 October in Quito. This has happened in Quito where the New Urban Agenda of Habitat III was being agreed by the United Nations Member States for another 20 years. Our two institutions have agreed to work together for the dissemination and the use of the concept “Smart Economy in Smart Cities” in the Africa region. UN-Habitat and GORA Corp recognize that the rapid development of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructures has eased the creation of smart economy in digitally served cities and towns through smart urban planning, smart infrastructures, smart land tenure and smart urban policies.
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On 16 April GORA Corp launches a Regional Programme for Africa during the PrepCom2 of Habitat3 and the 25th session of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat. Read more.
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GORA Corp at the third session of the Preparatory Committee of Habitat III (PrepCom3) in Surabaya, Indonesia, on 25-27 July 2016. The draft of the New Urban Agenda of 10 September 2016 i will be presentated for adoption at the Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador, on 15-20 October 2016. Read more |
A new generation of global settlement measurements and products will be developed by GORA Corp and partners to support national and global agendas including the UN Third Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III, 2016), the Sustainable Development Goals, the COP21 and other global agendas. Statement.
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GORA Corp and the Government of Guinea initiate collaboration on Smart Cities, which are Sustainable, Inclusive and Prosperous. Starting with the city of Conakry, the Guinea Smart City Programme will focus on Smart City Foundation, Smart Basic Infrastructure and Smart Institutions on Laws. Making City digitally served creates Smart Economy through the development of Information, Technology and Communication infrastructures (ICTs).
The Smart City Programme is aimed to create low carbon cities in Guinea. |
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In May 2015, GORA Corp collaborated with UN-Habitat to set up the Urban Observatory programme in Kogi State, Nigeria. Read more.
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in February 2015 GORA Corp signed an MoU with the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) of the Ministry of Urban Development, India, for the establishment of observatories to assist Indian cities on the move to be smart. Read More. |
In July 2015, GORA Corp signed an MOU with the City of Louga and met 16 other municipalities of the department of Louga (Senegal) to build partnership for the establishment of Observatory linking Research to Action (ORA) to support a Sustainable, Inclusive & Prosperous City (SIPC). Read more |
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Setting up observatories (ORAs)
ORAs are open platform of Big Data for development of indicators from classical sources of information (population and housing censuses and household surveys) as well as GIS and social media to promote an agenda by the people for the people. . |
Advocacy & Communication
Knowledge Sharing 
ORA's key findings are shared with people and institutions through user friendly open platform of advocacy and communication . ORAs promote Open data through data visualization and revolution technology including social media, open portal, workshops and conferences. |
Policies/Actions
The ORA policy/action toolkit combines research analysis, impact assessment and learning practices and policies to assist for policy formulation and action plan development for a people agenda. |
Training & Capacity Development
A major weak link between research and action is in the difficulty of people,government employees and other stakeholders to access and use indicators for policy formulation. GORA's training and capacity development tools link research to action |
