The Future of African Cities Closes its Massive Summit Today in Cairo

Pan-Arab network AfriLabs joined forces with Cairo's urban hub Progrss, District Spaces and Hivos to co-host a three-day gathering to discuss the Future of African Cities at the heart of Cairo. With representatives from startups, key urban players and collaborative spaces from across Africa and the world, the event was a chance to bring together AfriLabs’ Annual Meeting and The Coworking Summit, in a massive event-in-motion that touched down key areas of Egypt's collaborative ecosystem, such as the French and American Universities in Cairo, the Greek Campus, and KMT House, the soon-to-be-launched first Urban Tech co-working space in Africa.

Hovering over key issues related to smart cities, infrastructure and urban communities, the talks discussed the roles of disruptive, grassroots’ innovations in city transformations and the integration between co-working spaces, accelerators and incubators in a continent that is home to 16.4 percent of the world population and has seen, in the past decades an economic boom in its cities, despite urban challenges.