{"id":6989,"date":"2026-08-26T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2026-09-03T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:57:43","slug":"decentralised-infrastructure-and-sustainable-growth-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/decentralised-infrastructure-and-sustainable-growth-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference on Decentralised Infrastructure and Sustainable Growth in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hamburg, 26\/08\/2026:<\/strong> With the global economy locked in prolonged crisis, African households confront deepening uncertainty over supply and economic prospects, even as international support and German development cooperation retreat under budget cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decentralised infrastructure is emerging as a core precondition for development, above all in rural areas, where affordable access to water and renewable electricity rests on robust technologies, socially sensitive financing, and local acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These concerns frame the first joint interdisciplinary conference on <strong>11\/09\/2026<\/strong> of the University of Hamburg&#8217;s African Studies department and the Centre for Business and Technology in Africa (CBTA) at Hochschule Flensburg. Co-organised by the CBTA and convened by its Director, Prof. Kay Pfaffenberger, the event also features a guest contribution by Prof. Stefan Liebing, placing the Centre within an evolving debate on long-term Germany-Africa cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Program and registration:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de\/event\/751\/overview\">https:\/\/www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de\/event\/751\/overview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/programm_hamburgg_caba.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/programm_hamburgg_caba-1024x570.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/programm_hamburgg_caba-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/programm_hamburgg_caba-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/programm_hamburgg_caba-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/programm_hamburgg_caba.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg, 26\/08\/2026: With the global economy locked in prolonged crisis, African households confront deepening uncertainty over supply and economic prospects, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wi.hs-flensburg.de\/africacentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}