Episode description
Episode description
Kurtis Lockhart is Acting Executive Director and Head of Research at The Charter Cities Institute (CCI). We discuss New Cities With New Rules: The Rise of African Charter Cities.
Listen or watch to understand:
- About The Charter Cities Institute (CCI).
- What Charter Cities are and how the idea came about.
- The CCI model for Charter Cities and how if differers from the initial model of economist Paul Romer.
- Reforming institutions in a deep way that is necessary.
- How we know that these cities will actually work.
- How Public Private Partnerships can make it work.
- Examples of Charter Cities. [Dubai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Singapore]
- How a Charter City is different from a special economic zone, free port or other special jurisdiction.
- How Charter Cities can help solve some major challenges that Africa is facing. [Legal, Financial, Technical Capacity]
- The disciplining affect and advantage of political competition.
- The biggest challenge and risk in creating charter cities in Africa.
- How this risk can be mitigated.
- Africa's Next 50 Cities Coalition (NXT50). A global initiative to support the development of new African cities.
- The possibilities and opportunities presented by the rapid growth of urbanisation in Africa.