{"id":65239,"date":"2018-05-09T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T09:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsat-tillman-civicconnect-sign-mou-with-smart-africa\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T09:21:17","slug":"inmarsat-tillman-civicconnect-sign-mou-with-smart-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsat-tillman-civicconnect-sign-mou-with-smart-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat, Tillman, CivicConnect sign MOU with Smart Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inmarsat<\/strong> has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in conjunction with <strong>Tillman Digital Cities<\/strong> and <strong>CivicConnect<\/strong>, to accelerate the development and implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with the <strong>Smart Africa Alliance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Smart Africa Alliance is a partnership bringing together 22 African countries committed to the Smart Africa Manifesto and is supported by regional and global bodies including the <strong>African Union<\/strong>, the <strong>International Telecommunication Union <\/strong>(ITU), <strong>World Bank<\/strong> and <strong>The African Development Bank<\/strong>. Inmarsat was the first commercial company to join the alliance, becoming a platinum member in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The MOU provides a framework of cooperation for all future negotiations for smart cities projects in the continent, and the consortium members bring a significant amount of experience to the PPP to drive the initiative forward.<\/p>\n<p>Inmarsat has taken a leading role in supporting the objectives of Smart Africa and in May kicked off a 12-month smart city proof of concept in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. The initiative supports a range of Internet of Things (IOT) solutions linked by a LoRaWAN network. The flagship project provides a blueprint for smart city projects that can be deployed throughout Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Tillman has experience in the financing, development and operation of national-scale infrastructure programs, and has led the buildout of much of the current mobile telecommunications infrastructure across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>CivicConnect specializes in platforms for the aggregation, management and dissemination of data, serving as the connectivity tissue for smart city infrastructure. Leveraging real-time data, the company enables citizens, governments and businesses to better engage with their city assets and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inmarsat has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in conjunction with Tillman Digital Cities and CivicConnect, to accelerate the development and implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with the Smart Africa Alliance. The Smart Africa Alliance is a partnership bringing together 22 African countries committed to the Smart Africa Manifesto and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}