World Standards Day 2017 in Togo: All stakeholders mobilized around the issue of "standards and urban development"

Like other countries of the world, Togo commemorated October 26, 2017 in the conference room of the Free Zone Administration Society (SAZOF), the World Standards Day 2017. A hundred of guests including officials from the Togolese public administration, the private sector, the Group of Industrialists of Togo (GITO), the Association of Large Enterprises of Togo (AGET), the Togolese Association of Consumers (ATC), representatives of public and private higher education institutions, various trades and civil society, took part in the exchanges.

After the opening ceremony marked by the welcome address of the National Focal Point of the WAQSP, Mr. Fidegnon Kpakpo, the day continued with the presentation of a communication on the topic of the year: " Standards make cities more smart" by Mr. Alain Kofi Kumodzi-Dzevi, architect-urban planner and member of the National Monitoring Committee (NMC) of WAQSP. Several models of "smart cities" already existing or planned were presented by the consultant with their advantages and also their disadvantages, while insisting on the role of standards at all levels, from design to securing and taking in charge of aspects such as the efficient management of energy and modern technologies of information and communication, ecology, etc.