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HOPE City: A Vision Of Ghana’s Future

HOPE City: A Vision Of Ghana’s Future

Construction was scheduled to begin this year, but benefits to the country’s employment situation have already begun, said Emmanuel Arthur, corporate affairs manager at Rlg Ghana. HOPE city will provide jobs in construction, “As well as the painters, electricians and other professions that serve to make the buildings functional,” Arthur said.

Once the three-year construction project is completed, HOPE City will provide more employment opportunities in information and computing technology services. In addition to Rlg and its cohorts, there will also be room in the city’s six towers for university campuses, hospitals and other medical clinics.

Ultimately, the plan is for HOPE City to provide housing and employment for hundreds of thousands of people.

“This is not a campus, this is a city — a vertical city for 300,000 people living an interconnected life,” architect Brescia said. “Bridges at different heights will connect the towers, becoming a public space with common activities and amenities, combining vertical mobility with horizontal sociality.”

Architecture that generates meaningful human connections is at the core of Open Building Research’s design philosophy, so it is no wonder that Agambire contracted the firm to conceive his objective.

“We feel that Roland Agambire developed an enlightened vision for HOPE City with strong social and cultural goals for the project,” said Brescia. “(By) turning Ghana into an active player in the global economy, focusing on ICT in collaboration with the government of Ghana, (HOPE City) will become a place of discovery through knowledge, work and education.”

The majority of Rlg’s strategic objectives involve young people in one capacity or another. The company hopes to train 75,000 Ghanaian youths in applied information and communication technology skills by 2015, an initiative that began earlier this year in collaboration with the government of Ghana.

“This year we have already started training 16,000 youths in ICT,” Arthur said. Classes cover software development, repair and assembly of hardware such as mobile phones, tablets and laptop computers. “And we teach them how to become good business people,” he said. In 2014, the plan is to put another 15,000 youth through the program.