Cape Town 2030 : the business vision

Africa’s Global City,

a city of inspiration & innovation

Africa’s global city : goals

Iconic & Emulated

Global African Gateway

Educated & Trained

Caring & Welcoming

Green & Beautiful

Safe & Efficient

Connected & Vibrant

Creative & Cultural

Creative & Cultural - goal

Creative industries include advertising, architecture, art, design, fashion, film, TV & video, music, performing

arts & publishing. In London more than 500 000 are employed in this sector, creating 1 in 5 new jobs.

Creativity goes beyond these industries. With 5 restaurants in the world’s top 100, Cape Town City

Region is creative around food; innovations in health, science & business are all part of the creative mix.

Cape Malay food, Cape Dutch architecture, Cape museums, Robben Island, Cape Jazz and minstrels are

threads in a unique cultural heritage tapestry.

Creative & Cultural - themes

Creative Industries

Creative solutions for the world

Cultural product

Scalability

Creative & Cultural

Objectives Strategies Plans (3 horizons)

Creative industries biggest new employer by 2015

Creative clusters

Identify & promote global excellence

1 Woodstock Hub2 Culemborg Hub

1 Low-cost Broadband for Hubs

CTCR recognised as a global innovation centre by 2020

Innovate around affordable environ-mental & health technologies

1 $100 solar water heater competition

2 Sports Science New Thinking Summit

Annual CTCR International Live Arts Festival – theatre, dance, music, fashion, food – begins 2010

Where Africa enjoys a world audience

Start modestly

1 Plan around the world cup

Actual and potential “catalytic” projects• Safe and Efficient

– Cape Town events calendar– Safe Cape Initiative

• Educated and Trained– The Skills Factory in Saldanha– TSiBA Education Trust– Support Afriversity– Work with CHEC to establish how many graduates we net lose or gain and find ways to retain them

• Connected and Vibrant– Connect’d Cape Town– IT to Khayelitsha– Lobby for more direct international flights – Work with the Cape Town Partnership to establish integrated development in the city bowl; Foreshore, Culemborg,

Railway lines, District Six• Caring and Welcoming

– Restless Minds• Creative and Cultural

– Loeries Awards• Green and Beautiful

– Support Agama Energy’s TREC’s programme– Green Map for Cape Town– Upgrade and develop small harbours (with MCM)

• Global African Gateway– Lobby for more direct international flights, especially into Africa– Build a cruise line terminal (support City)

• Iconic and Emulated– Combined effort to develop a business brand for Cape Town in 2010– Vision 2030 Pavilion during 2010