Information Technology titan, the International Business Machines
(IBM) has picked Ghana as the only Africa country to benefit from its global Smart
Cities initiative, reports ITRealms.
Ghana selection, ITRealms
gathered, would be sited at Sekondi and is coming on the heels of 15 others
including Surat, Allahabad, Vizag in India; Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens
(Greece), Denver, Detroit, Memphis, Rochester (New York) in the US, Melbourne
(Australia), San Isidro (Peru), Santiago (Chile), Taichung (Taiwan), Xuzhou and
Huizhou (China)
Also, ITRealms reports
that the programme entails that IBM will send a team of experts to each of the selected
cities for three weeks.
On the other hand, the IBM team would work
closely with local staff to analyze data on critical issues faced by local
bodies.
Further
reports by ENN
anticipates that the initiative would address challenges such as waste and
disaster management and citizen services to name a few.
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