The scheme had received a boost earlier in the year when business group Marketing Derby said it was vital the city was better connected to the HS2 route.

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Mikumi lies along a trade route that has connected the East African coast with huge inland lakes for hundreds of years.

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One of the demos in the hallway shows how the company's Maximo Everyplace product gives an operations manager the ability to route a workflow through a browser on a connected mobile device.

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