Future Cities Africa podcast
Hosted by Dan Claassen · Dan @ Future Cities Africa
- 129
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 360K
- YouTube views
About Future Cities Africa podcast
Future Cities Africa hosts discussions with thought leaders and experts at the forefront of major trends, projects, innovations, challenges and opportunities impacting the future of African Cities. Major drivers such as rapid urbanisation, health crisis, climate change, inadequate infrastructure, technology advancement and more are creating an urgent need for African Cities to become sustainable, livable and workable. New ways of thinking about governance, funding, mobility, urban planning and design, construction and implementation of projects coupled with major advancements in technology like 5G, blockchain, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, data science, machine learning, renewable energy and more give promise of an uncertain but exciting future. To learn and stay at the forefront of trends, projects, innovations, challenges and opportunities impacting what future African Cities will look likesSubscribe to stay informed.
- Publisher
- Dan @ Future Cities Africa
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Nov 2020
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 129 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Municipal Optimisation: What the Data Reveals Once You Actually Look
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Professionalisation Really Means - and Why Local Government Keeps Getting It Wrong
17 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Women in Corporate: From Influence to Impact
Inside a recent episode
Municipal Optimisation: What the Data Reveals Once You Actually Look
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Let me explain by using an example. What does it cost to perform a particular function? In other words, the approval of building plans or an engineering related procurement process. So how many people are assigned to start the process or involved in the process? What volume of work needs to be processed in comparison with the number of people that's involved? Where are the decisions being delayed? Because we often hear about, specifically in approval of building plans, that it's lying on somebody's desk, which means it causes frictional cost and it delays the process and impacts on the economy. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Future Cities Africa podcast
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- Attie Butler
- Nasmera Buckus
- Dr Shirley Zinn
- Petro Myburgh
- Carin Fouché
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 359,702
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 0
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Who hosts Future Cities Africa podcast?
Dan Claassen host the show. Published by Dan @ Future Cities Africa.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Future Cities Africa podcast take guests?
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