{"id":209804,"date":"2025-10-14T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-unveils-konza-phase-1-declares-smart-city-open-for-investment\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:03:06","slug":"kenya-ruto-unveils-konza-phase-1-declares-smart-city-open-for-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-unveils-konza-phase-1-declares-smart-city-open-for-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Unveils Konza Phase 1, Declares Smart City Open for Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Konza Technopolis \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has officially launched Phase 1 infrastructure and smart city facilities at Konza Technopolis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The event, themed &#8220;Powering Kenya&#8217;s Future &#8211; A Smart City Open for Investment,&#8221; symbolized the operational readiness of Konza as a fully enabled smart city driving the country&#8217;s digital and knowledge economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">During a presidential tour of the site, President Ruto commissioned key installations, including a Solid Waste Collection Facility, the first of its kind&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510140024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konza Technopolis \u2014 President William Ruto has officially launched Phase 1 infrastructure and smart city facilities at Konza Technopolis. The event, themed &#8220;Powering Kenya&#8217;s Future &#8211; A Smart City Open for Investment,&#8221; symbolized the operational readiness of Konza as a fully enabled smart city driving the country&#8217;s digital and knowledge economy. During a presidential tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6603,7030,6018,4688,430,37838,257,5983,7136,11238,9353,254,6777],"class_list":["post-209804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-city","tag-declares","tag-investment","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-konza","tag-news","tag-open","tag-phase","tag-ruto","tag-smart","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unveils"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}