Oct 16, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Safe Cities Summit in Nairobi – Recent events can teach us massive lessons about public safety. Peter Goulding, independent public safety consultant, points out that solutions largely lie in the ability to access and process...
Oct 15, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Safe Cities Summit in Nairobi – Technology is driving a new era in public safety. This is the word from Thomas Lynch, director for security and critical communications research at IHS, who believes that the safe city is ushering...
Oct 15, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Safe City Summit in Nairobi – Ensuring the security of citizens will eventually go beyond surveillance and response, but could move to actual crime prevention. Professor Bitange Ndemo former permanent secretary of Kenya’s...
Oct 15, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Safe Cities Summit in Nairobi – The nature of threats is changing, not least the issues that citizens will soon face within their cities. Khoo Boon Hui, former president of Interpol, and retired commissioner of the Singapore...
Oct 14, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Safe Cities Summit in Nairobi – When Kenya was hit by a rash of terrorist attacks, it had an immediate negative effect on its economy as revenue from tourism plummeted. The high-profile terrorist attacks were exacerbated by a...
Oct 14, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Safe Cities Summit in Nairobi – For the first time in the history of the world, there are more people living in cities than in the country. Urbanisation is reshaping the social constructs of family, school and community, says...
