The World Economic Forum on Africa started today in Cape Town, South Africa.

This year marks the 25th year of the gathering, which launched in Geneva in 1990.

This years them is: “Then and Now: Reimagining Africa’s Future”.
More than 1,250 participants are expected to be part of “the largest ever held in Africa by the World Economic Forum.”

Her are some of the “global challenges:
– “Designing Smarter Cities” that looks on ways to promote urban planing and green strategies for pollution
– “Industrializing Africa” that will discuss lowering the cost of transport, energy and talent on the continent
– “Transforming Education in Africa” that addresses the quality gap and explore scaling public-private models
– “Powering Africa” that looks at how to level the playing field in opening access to energy markets.

Author: Gova-Media