SMART CITY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP IN CAPE TOWN
Improved and efficient service delivery through Swedish-South African Partnership
Date: 14thJune
Time: 09h00-13h30
Venue: Council Chambers, Civic Centre, 6th Floor, Podium Building, 12 Hertzog Boulevard,
Cape Town
The Embassy of Sweden in Pretoria and the Swedish Trade Council in South Africa have the pleasure to
invite you to a workshop on Smart Cities in Cape Town 14 June 2012.
The political and economic cooperation between Sweden and South Africa on Government level is formalised
through the Bi-National Commission (BNC) that was inaugurated in September 2000. Last year’s BNC took
place in Stockholm, Sweden, 20-21 October 2011. The South African delegation, including senior
representatives of the country’s business, was led by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe. Among many
topics discussions on key Swedish and South African priorities were conducted, focusing on the development
of Smart Cities (in Sweden and South Africa) through sustainable urban planning.
The Stockholm Royal Seaport, a new residential and commercial development in Sweden, is an example of a
Smart City in development (http://www.stockholmroyalseaport.com/). In South Africa many municipalities are
the process of installing broadband networks that have the capability of catapulting the municipalities into a
new age. Education can be enhanced through e-learning solutions and healthcare through e-health services,
to name but a few will now be possible.
The aim of the workshop in Cape Town is to identify areas for cooperation and to introduce a Swedish cluster
of organizations and companies, already today working with South African business and entrepreneurs to
build sustainable municipalities.
The workshop will introduce the concept of Smart Cities and how Swedish partners and South African
municipalities can:
Deliver efficient services through developing Smart Cities
Increase trade and strengthen business, in order to create jobs and contribute to business
development.
To participate in this event, please email:
marcus.t.persson@swedishtrade.se or phone 011 300 5600 no later than 5th June 2012.
We look forward to seeing you in Cape Town to jointly implement this cooperation.
Peter Tejler
Ambassador of Sweden
Håkan Bengtsson
Trade Commissioner Southern Africa
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Smart city development workshop 14th June, Cape Town
Improved and efficient service delivery through Swedish-South African Partnership
- ProgrammeThis conference will be hosted by the Swedish Trade Council in collaboration with the
Embassy of Sweden and City of Cape Town.
09.00-09.30
Registration and Coffee
09.30-09.50
Welcome, introduction and district priorities
Executive Mayor, Patricia de Lille
09.50-10.05
Sweden and South Africa – my perspective
Mr. Peter Tejler, Ambassador of Sweden
10.05-10.25
The Smart City Concept & Sweden Inc
Mr. Håkan Bengtsson, Trade Commissioner, Swedish Trade Council
10.25-10.40
Coffee & tea break
10.40-11.00
Smart Cities from an ICT perspective
Mr. Lars Lindén, Regional Head sub-Saharan Africa, Ericsson
11.00-11-20
Smart Cities from a Civil Security perspective
Mr. Johan De Clerk, Marketing Manager Civil Security, Saab Systems Grintek
11.20-11.40
Smart Cities from an Energy perspective
Mr. Stuart Michie, LBU Manager – Network Management, ABB
11.40-12.00
Smart Cities from a Transport Solutions perspective
Mr. Jonas Strömberg, Director Sustainable Solutions, Scania
12.00-12.20
Smart Cities from an Academic perspective
Mr. Helmi Dreijer, Senior Director for Information Technology, Stellenbosch
University
12.20-12.50
Q&A and next steps
12.50-13.30
Lunch
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Helmi Dreijer | Senior Director: Information Technology | Stellenbosch University |
Phone +27 21 808 4246 | Fax +27 21 808 4102 | Mobile +27 83 600 5274 | Office 2nd
Floor IT Building, Banhoek street, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Helmi Dreijer is the Senior Director for Information Technology at Stellenbosch University, where
he is responsible for the overall institutional IT strategy and operations.
At national level, Helmi serves on the Boards of the Association of South African University
Directors of Information Technology (ASAUDIT), the South African National Research Network and
the advisory board for the (NRF) National Research Foundation’s Research Information
Management System. He is also the Managing Director of ASAUDIT and Chair of the ASAUDIT
Procurement committee.
Helmi holds a degree in Electrical Engineering, a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and an
MBA from Stellenbosch University.
With twenty five years of experience in the IT industry, mainly in the higher education sector, he
has a good insight into IT trends, how to position IT as an enabler for institutional transformation,
how to manage technology and how to ensure that the necessary IT governance processes are in
place.
During his career at Stellenbosch University, Helmi has been involved with many IT projects that
enabled the university to be at the forefront in aligning people, processes and technology for
effective business systems, teaching and learning, as well as research and community interaction.
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Smart City Development Workshop
Collaboration between
Higher Education, the City and Industry
for doing
“Smart Education in the City”
Helmi Dreijer - Cape Town - 14 june 2012
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CHEC – Four Universities
in the City
The Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC)
aims to establish the Western Cape as a strong
higher education region which, will be
• distinctively responsive to developments in
the knowledge economy of the 21st century
• sensitive to historical realities in promoting
equity across its institutions and
• cost-effective and of high quality education.
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Collaboration between Universities
The purpose of the Association of South African University
Directors of Information Technology (ASAUDIT) is to
promote and advance the use and support of computing
and information technology at the 23 South African
universities:
1. Advisor / leader in potential future directions
2. Innovation through consolidation of efforts
3. Sharing amongst members
4. Definition of best / good practice
5. Bargaining platform with vendors
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Drivers for Smart Actions
By 2050 more than
80% of South Africa's
population will live in
cities.
The challenges presented by the rapid
population growth demand that cities
transform…to Smart Cities
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3.3 million people
• 1.6% population growth pa
• Average  €3800 per capita
per year
• 4-5% economic growth pa
Cape Town
1.6 million intern. tourists pa
• 15% unemployment rate
• 38% all households earn less
then HSL ( €225 per month)
Approx. 1 million people have
no income
• 420 000 people receive social
grants
Housing backlog: 300 000
• Informal settlements: 100 000
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Smart City - Definition
City performance currently depends not only:
• on the city's hard infrastructure ('physical capital')
o Water
o Electricity
o Roads
o Waste Management
o Schools
but also, and increasingly so,
• on the availability and quality of
knowledge communication ('intellectual capital').
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When it gets to knowledge communication, the
Town, Gown and Industry should meet
University’s play a role in the development of Smart
Cities, to:
• Create and develop knowledge through research
• Communicate and transfer the knowledge
through teaching
• Apply the knowledge through innovation and
community interaction
The role of ICT in these roles should not be under
emphasized and has huge potential
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Importance of Education
• The purpose of higher education is to equip students for
success in life — in their workplaces, in their communities,
and in their personal lives.
• though this purpose has remained constant for centuries,
• colleges and universities themselves should and are
undergoing major change.
• The campus, the library, the refereed journal article, the
classroom, and the traditional-age student — common
features of higher education today—may be inadequate in
describing higher education tomorrow.
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International Goals for Post
Secondary Education
• Some international goals illustrate the demand for postsecondary education:
– By 2025, 40 percent of Australians 25 to 34 years old should
have degree qualification. By 2020, 20 percent of undergraduate
enrollments should be from low socioeconomic status groups.9
– By 2025, 60 percent of the U.S. population should hold "highquality college degrees or credentials."10
– By 2020, 50 percent of the Dutch labor force between the ages
of 25 and 44 should hold a higher education degree.11
– By 2012, close to 50 percent of those in the United Kingdom in
the 18-to-30 age group should be participating in higher
education.12
• SA Greenpaper set South Africa goals
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SA Green Paper on Post School
Education
• The Green Paper provides a vision for a single, coherent,
differentiated and highly articulated “post-school” education and
training system.
• By 2030, South Africa ought to have a post-school system that
provides a range of accessible alternatives for young people.
– By 2030, we aim to raise university enrolments to 1 500 000 (a
projected participation rate of 23%) as opposed to the 2011
enrolments of 899 120 (a 16% participation rate).
– In addition we aim for 4 000 000 enrolments (approximately a
60% participation rate) in colleges or other post-school
institutions such as the proposed community education and
training centers discussed below.
– The DHET must build, resource and support this expanded system.
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SA Post-school Challenges
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Higher education
Further education
Vocational education
Occupational
education
• Professional education
• Adult education and
continuing education
• Increased Access
• Improved throughput
• Increased curriculum
Relevance
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Green Paper promotes Open and Distance
Learning:
Flexible and Innovative Modes of Delivery
• A Network of Providers
– Shared Learning and Support Centers
– Professional Development
• Improved Access to and Use of Appropriate
Technology
• Collaborative Development of High Quality Learning
Resources
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Draft Policy Framework for the provision of
Distance Education in South African Universities
Government Gazette of 29 May 2012
Dr Nzimande, MHET
It provides an overview of the policy context,
•
describes the distinctiveness and purpose of
distance higher education,
•
identifies mechanisms for steering distance
education provisioning and for
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creating an enabling environment for quality
distance higher education.
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Draft Policy on Distance Education
(Issued for comment in the Government Gazette of 29 May 2012)
The MHET sees distance provisioning as an integral part of
the post-school system in general, and more specifically in
higher education.
This policy statement is part of a broader focus on building
the capacity of the education system but focuses primarily
on higher education because of its unique features.
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Will this be in pace with worldwide trends ??
MOOC - massive open online course
– describes courses that take place online; are open in
the sense that participation is typically free of charge
and learning materials can be modified, reused and
distributed to others; and reach massive communities –
of tens of thousands – of learners.
– one of the MOOC pioneers at Stanford, created the
artificial intelligence course that attracted more than
160,000 users - though only 25,000 finished the course
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Green Paper promotes the Improved Access to and
Use of Appropriate Technology
Possible mechanisms include:
• Collaboration with the Department of Communication and other government
departments and stakeholders, to facilitate increased bandwidth and reduced
costs for educational purposes.
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Engagement with stakeholders to negotiate easier access to and reduced costs
for internet enabled devices.
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Appropriate DHET bids for funds to ensure that a comprehensive, enabling ICT
infrastructure is put in place for all post-schooling providers and particularly the
distance higher education providers.
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Facilitating the shared establishment and management of ICT-enabled,
networked learning centers in areas where home-based provision is likely to be
difficult in the short- to medium-term.
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Collaborative Development of High Quality Learning Resources
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Utilizing Available Connectivity !
As we move into an era where voice and data
services are quickly becoming a commodity,
bandwidth is offered in abundance and
collaboration becomes the wave of the future.
It is an opportunity for each individual and
institution to explore and utilize this commodity to
add value to itself and the community.
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City’s Target for 2014
Currently, only 20 provincial government
buildings, 50 City of Cape Town buildings and
50 municipal sites enjoy connections of
100Mbit/s or more.
The vision has been communicated to connect
more than 4 000 government facilities and also
hopes to connect 70% of these and every
Western Cape school — by 2014 — along with.
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City Network
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The plan for Cape to ‘go live’
Western Cape and City executives wants every
citizen in the Cape Town metropolitan area to have
access to 100Mbit/s broadband by 2020.
In addition, they wants government buildings and
schools to enjoy that sort of connectivity by 2014.
From an higher education perspective we salute
this vision !
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ICT is a Game Changer
• Broadband Networks
• Cloud Computing
• Mobility – Internet enabled devices
• Convergence of Voice, Data and Video
networks
• Video conferencing and Telepresence
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IT is a “Game Changer” for Education !
Telematic Learning: The expansion of the synchronous on-line
classroom through telematic learning programs using satellite
and internet delivery models, suppported with video
conferencing systems which focus on a mixed “click and brick”
modes of delivery
Cloud based LMS: Expand Learning Management System
platforms to the cloud for wider online access to electronic
learning objects and resources, especially via mobile technology
in a mixed mode, to drive down costs
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Virtual Presence
Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which
allow a person to feel and appear as if they were
present, or to have an effect, via telerobotics, at a
place other than their true location:
– Bandwidth between campuses can
change the game.
– Opportunity to build bridges to the schools
– Opportunity to share knowledge skills
– Opportunity for students to access knowledge across
institutions
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Own vs Access to Teachers
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“Telepresence”
Opportunities for expanding the University’s footprint
Service
via 3G
International
via Seacom
SANREN
(10 Gbps)
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SA NREN Broadband
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Global Trends in Cloud Computing
Cloud communication and collaboration tools:
Effective communication between learners and
knowledge resources in the cloud such as Google
and/or Microsoft.
Physical learning spaces enriched with
technology: Upgrade of learning spaces to
optimally use technology, focus not only on data
projectorts but using tablets and cell phones to
promote interactivity and learning as apposed to
traditional teaching
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Foresight Actions
• Education and Research networks: In
support of the teaching and learning
and research inisiatives, campusses
need to upgrade their campus
networks for integration with the
county’s high speed SANREN research
network, enabling also for researchers
and scholars to get access from their
homes.
• Electronic Course Notes: Transforming
and enriching class notes to Open
Educational Resources (OER) focused at
increase acceess to quality resources
and lower unit cost
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Example of Telematic Learning @
Stellenbosch
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SU Learning
Centers (20)
Medi-Clinic
Hospitals (53)
DBSA (6)
WCED Schools
(145)
NCED Schools
(69)
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An Enabling ICT Infrastructure
An enabling ICT infrastructure is essential to the
development of quality distance education
provision in South Africa.
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Business Intelligence in the City
• Our challenge: To be visionary – to see and think and then
in a realistic manner to execute the visions and plans in a
measurable and realistic manner
• Many foresight analysis projects contributed to
successful planning for the future project. This workshop
is commended for trying to contribute to that foresight
• Successful and sustainable businesses read the markets
and consumer trends successfully…and are creative in
addressing the challenges and opportunities. With
competition, profit seeking, venture to fulfill the needs
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In Summary
Creative thinking through exposure to innovative
products can lead to doing different things in different
manners
There is apparently no recipe for success …but to do the
right thing at the right time…maybe the time is now to
participate in the Smart Education initiatives
Thanking you !
Helmi Dreijer – mwd@sun.ac.za
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Top 5 Action Items on the Agenda
1. Interconnecting SANREN with the City Network
2. Extend Coty network to:
1. community centres
2. all Western Cape libraries
3. All schools in Western Cape
3. Shared development of Open Learning Resources
4. Cost effective access to eReaders, eTextbooks and
data
5. Upgrade technology on all our campuses
6. Explore collaboration with Industry
Youtube: http://youtu.be/F34eUJZY7NE
Smart Stellenbosch
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