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Cape town, South Africa, 25 February 2019 - "Africa: The continent of the digital future for rail" is the theme of the primary African Digital Rail Summit, organised in Cape town, South Africa, from 25 to 27 February with the aid of the African Union development company (AUDA-NEPAD) and the international Union of Railways (IUC), based in Paris.
The initiative is a component of the African Union's (AU) Agenda 2063, of which the African integrated excessive speed Railway network (AIHSRN) is among the flagship projects.
This high-degree meeting is being held in the presence of Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the AUDA-NEPAD and Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, President of UIC. it'll make it feasible to strengthen the African imaginative and prescient of digital rail, as a part of the vision of rail in Africa by way of 2040, defined in 2014 in Malabo.
The continent's 90,000 km of railway lines are specially inherited from colonization. This community, which is just too fragmented and focused on transporting raw materials to ports, still has to be prolonged and interconnected so as to accelerate Africa's economic integration. Its modernisation involves in specific the use of latest digital applied sciences.
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, government Secretary of AUDA-NEPAD, talked about: "The African integrated excessive speed Railway network (AIHSRN) is among the flagship initiatives of the African Union's Agenda 2063. The modernisation and extension of rail networks aren't viable without new digital applied sciences, a key aspect of "intelligent" transport. These technologies will support us achieve a key pillar of our regional integration."
Transport ministers from South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and Niger are present in Cape city, as smartly as the Director of the country wide Railways workplace (ONCF) of Morocco. additionally existing are industrialists, economists, representatives of African subregional corporations, the world financial institution, the African development financial institution (AfDB), the financial commission for Africa (ECA), in addition to consultants in digital ecosystems.
A roadmap might be drawn up, foremost tasks recognized and a methodology developed for the revitalization of the African Union of Railways (UAC).
Press contacts
Mr Louis NAPO
AUDA-NEPAD
Louisg@nepad.org
+27 60 313 2202
Mr Francis BEDEL
UIC CDO
bedel@uic.org
+33 1 44 49 20 sixty eight
Ms. Maria LAFONT
UIC Senior guide & Africa region
lafont@uic.org
+33 1 forty four 49 20 24
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