 Thank you. Thank you very much for inviting me. I'd like to present a manifesto at this conference on What I'm seeing as a truly African invention that being flexible mobility Developed by Africans using the African context So mobility doesn't have to be hard. It's essentially we speak about space time and fuel or resources burning of resources Transport of mobility is deeply local the local context, but it's also uniquely global And I'll illustrate this through the following five problems, and you'll be able to identify these five problems wherever you live in the world problem one is the undesirable private car usage that then eats up land and the parking the Mobility storage devices called parking garages that we need to prop up our car habits Problem two is that these cars are single occupants and the price of resource of running these vehicles is only increasing And we can only imagine what the licensing costs of self-driving technologies are going to be when these proprietary systems land on our shores Problem three is that demand is not responded to even though a city has Sometimes a vast oversupply of transport. It's just in the wrong place at the wrong time Example here is in Cape Town where our rail system is running very short of rolling stock However, we have a very vibrant para transit system. I think that pictures of Kampala Where the demand and the supply systems just aren't talking to each other. We have enough transport in Africa. It's just very badly distributed Then we look at these skills and funding needed to implement much needed mass transit and I use from the newspaper these graphics where the red lines is the what we would call considered mass transit formalized and Organized to move as many people as fast as possible and there are tiny little lines when you look at Addis Dar Cape Town We don't have the skills the funding and the capacity to implement and operate these systems The blue line of course is what pops up in the absence of mass transit And so what we do know in Africa is how to move people perhaps informally but popularly Problem five then is courses that our users are vulnerable our women are harassed on a daily basis The criminal element that comes where there is cash without Accountability and the laundering and the trade that can go on. This is a tag at minibus taxi in South Africa with 255 bullet holes pumped into it You I don't think this is a root dispute. This is a Elements of criminality which needs to be addressed the occupants of this will all Taxi bosses on the way back from a funeral of a colleague And so the the law and order the crime and violence that comes with the system really needs to be highlighted So how can African cities transition and play with outwith popular transit at its center? Well technology does have a a role to play here And so we've developed a model called flexible mobility or a flexible mobility platform Which I'd like to just talk you through so if we pivot on the problems those five problems private car usage single occupant car usage demand and supply not matched all these Problems that are familiar to your city Well, what if we set these objectives? We want to limit private car usage. We want to accelerate shared and electric mobility We want to build responsive systems to demand that highlights active mobility and encourages responsible supply mass transit systems with sustainable funding and Protect our users by means of aggressive regulation aggressive enforcement building the platform. We need now these all noble objectives How do we accomplish that? We've built a three-step process So we first want to measure exactly what's going on respect the indigenous transport supply that knows where supply and demand is Understand those temporal patterns those unique temporal patterns and identify where infrastructure is So collect as much data and put that data in a centralized place for everyone to to share Then model understand what is the end state we want? Well, where are the missing linkages? What nodes are not served adequately? What is the optimal supply? We do we know we have a oversupply of transport in Africa. What is the optimal supply? What is the new business model that's possible to incorporate informality into the formal economy? And what is a clear and just operating contract and then how do we manage this system? And this is where technology really has a role to play in tracking in payments and in measurements And so we've developed a three-part tool at flex which is a driver app and a rider app and a ride share engine Which allows us to take the big black box that is Ride share technology and open that up And so the question we ask is can we measure model and manage our cities with flexible mobility being a uniquely African invention developed by My company go Metro in Cape Town, but using the African context And so it's time to open up the black box of technology and give cities the power of flexible mobility. Thank you very much