[kictanet] Is Accra the New Rome? (IBM's Rome that is..)

[Ali Hussein]

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An interesting article on Smarter Cities.

 Home <http://www.idgconnect.com/?region=africa> > Blog Abstract
  Kathryn Cave (Ghana) – Accra: IBM’s New Rome?
  Posted by Kathryn Cave Company IDG Connect 04/24/2013

"The sick die here because they can't sleep - it costs a lot merely to
sleep in this city! That's why everyone's sick: carts clattering through
the winding streets, curses hurled at some herd standing still in the
middle of the road." This could describe a modern African city, but in fact
it comes from the satirist Juvenal in the early second century... and is
about the city of Rome.

This is not how people picture Rome; the benchmark of a beautiful city. Yet
the cliché that Rome was not built in a day holds true. The Coliseum was
built about 30 years before Juvenal wrote his satire and the Pantheon
around 20 years later. Chronic sleeplessness was caused by building
supplies transported at night. But like many modern cities in Africa, Rome
was in the necessary state of chaos it took to create all those monumental
buildings, bath houses, sewage systems and aqueducts. Perhaps comparisons
could be made with Ghana's capital Accra?

Read on

http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/889/kathryn-cave-ghana-accra-ibm-s-new-rome

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