Government Institutions and Urban Tech Innovation (Postponed to 2020)

Please note that this event is postponed to 2020 while Dr. Sengeh adjusts to his new role as Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education of Sierra Leone. More information about an alternate time will be posted in the coming months.

Please join Perry World House, Penn IUR, and MUSA for a conversation with Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, Chief Innovation Officer of the Republic of Sierra Leone, and David Milestone, former Acting Director, USAID Center for Innovation and Impact. They will discuss strategies to drive tech innovation and uptake in governments; partnerships with the private sector; what areas of civic urban infrastructure are most ripe for technological advancement; and tech success stories. Allison Lassiter, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, who has developed Penn’s first course on Smart Cities, will moderate the conversation.