The Intelligent Community Forum has named Kenya's busy capital city of Nairobi has the most intelligent city in Africa for a second year in a row but did not make it to the world's top seven finalists.
Nairobi was the only African city to appear on their shortlist of 21 hubs throughout the world for 2015.
According to the "intelligent communities" Kenya has taken"conscious steps" to create an economy that can prosper in the "broadband economy."
The group has recently released its latest rankings, recognizing the achievements of communities that have built inclusive, prosperous economies on a basis of information and communication technologies.
Intelligent Community Forum co-founder Robert Bell says: "We see a strong foundation being put into place [in Nairobi]: sensible, pro-growth government policy, a more diversified economy, and an innovation ecosystem of startups, international companies and universities.
"Nairobi certainly has the opportunity to build an exciting future for its citizens, businesses and institutions."
The Kenyan capital, however, didn't make it to the next round that will see seven communities around the world contesting in June for the 2015 Intelligent Community of the Year award -- in alphabetical order, the 2015 Top7 Intelligent Communities were Arlington County (U.S.), Columbus, (U.S.), Ipswich (Australia), Mitchell (U.S.), New Taipei City (Taiwan), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Surrey (Canada).
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