The Island Nation of Mauritius built this city 'Ebene cybercity' to bring into the country investments in technology.Built 15 years ago to create a modern working environment for Mauritians and bring a hi-tech hub to this island nation and hosts almost 25,000 mostly educated, middle-class workers work at Ebene during the week reports The Guardian.
This Cybercity is built on sugar cane fields roughly 15km from the capital, Port Louis. It has been criticized for lack cohesiveness, poor public transport, limited parking or even difficult access by foot, poor drainage that haunts people during the rainy season, among others.
Despite its many design flaws, the 64-hectare Cybercity boasts of high-speed internet (which just a half a decade ago was a rarity in the country), backup electricity generators to bridge frequent power cuts, and networking systems to guarantee that big businesses can stay online constantly. Despite the island’s geographic distance from mainland Africa, the hub is so well connected that it hosts the African Network Information Center, the internet registry platform for the entire continent.
“It’s actually a whole ecosystem of facilities: intelligent buildings, air conditioning and electric backup,” Koomaren Chetty, CEO of Business Parks of Mauritius (BPML), the company founded by the government to create and run Cybercity said to the Guardian.
I believe any plans of our own to build modern cities apart from the already developing Eko Atlantic City should pretty much sit on a shelve for the time being. We have a huge embarrassing infrastructure deficit and might as well concentrate on building infrastructure and educating our young for the next 10 years. Maybe then...
Story culled from cctv-africa.com
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