StarAfrica – The Aggregator of Six Channels Built by Orange Telecom

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June 18, 2011

StarAfrica is Orange’s portal in Africa aimed at the 18-35 age group. Star Africa aggregates content from all Sub-Saharan countries on 6 channels: news, football, more sports, music, education and premium services, whose common thread is to highlight young talent.

StarAfrica.com is a Pan African portal dedicated to Africa!

From Ivory Coast to Kenya, from South Africa to Sudan, StarAfrica.com is for all the sub Saharan African countries.

Orange wanted to offer the Internet users a website built for them, and of which they would be the heart and soul: on StarAfrica.com you are the star!

You can read qualitative information for free on the countries and subjects you are interested in, and chat with your contacts at the same time. You can also comment the articles and participate on StarAfrica.com’s forums.

Thanks to StarAfrica.com’s dedicated communication features, you can share real-time your opinions about the news through a very user-friendly platform.

Create your profile and join StarAfrica.com!

About Orange
France Telecom-Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with 170,000 employees worldwide, including 102,000 employees in France, and sales of 11.2 billion euros in the first quarter 2011. Present in 35 countries, the Group had a customer base of 215.9 million customers at 31 March 2011, including 141.6 million customers under the Orange brand, the Group’s single brand for internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates. At 31 March 2011, the Group had 156.7 million mobile customers and 13.9 million broadband internet (ADSL, fiber) customers worldwide. Orange is one of the main European operators for mobile and broadband internet services and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.

Orange Launches Orange African Social Venture Prize – Due September 15

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June 18, 2011

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With the creation of the African Social Venture Prize, Orange has pledged to offer its financial assistance and expertise to young companies that put forward innovative projects with a significant social impact.

Actually, Orange already supports the economic and social development of the countries in which it operates. In addition to deploying its infrastructure and providing services, the Group backs innovation that harnesses Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Encouraging the use of ICT to aid development
The African Social Venture Prize will be awarded to three entrepreneurs who offer solutions that use ICT in innovative ways to meet the needs of the poorest populations on the African continent.
Projects may range from banking services to applications in essential areas like healthcare, education and agriculture.

Supporting social entrepreneurs
Orange is committed to financially supporting and offering its expertise to the management of the growing small and midsize companies who are awarded this prize.

In addition to receiving an endowment of between EUR 10,000 and 25,000, the three prize winners will be awarded six months of support from entrepreneurial and ICT experts.

How do I enter?
Any entrepreneur or any legal entity that has been in existence for fewer than two years at the time of the contest may participate at no cost and with no restriction on nationality. Submitted projects must be designed to be deployed in at least one of the African countries in which Orange operates and must offer technology in an innovative way to help improve the living conditions of the poorest populations.
Applications are accepted from June 8 to September 15, 2011 at starafrica.

Orange operates in 17 African countries and this project fits the Group’s strategy of innovation as well as its Corporate Social Responsibility policy. By encouraging social entrepreneurship, Orange hopes to underscore the role of ICT in the economic and social development of emerging countries.

More on MedKenya – The Winner of 2011 Pivot25 Competition

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June 17, 2011

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MedKenya was developed by Shimba Technologies Limited. It won the overall Pivot25 competition and also won a category on health.

MEDKenya by Shimba Technologies LTD is a platform that provides symptom checkers, first-aid information, doctor & hospital directories. The product aims to make healthcare information affordable and accessible to Kenyans.

This technology evolved out of Tuvitu. Tuvitu is a mobile platform that contains content-rich mini-applications (widgets) which enable users to personalise the information they browse via their mobile phone. Tuvitu is Swahili for ‘small things’.

The team comprises a group of partners and visionary individuals who have been in the mobile space for over 6 years. This team is charged with ensuring that Tuvitu scales as a platform and puts Africa on the map. These partners are the Shimba Technologies, a Payment Platform, OEMs (Nokia), MNOs & the various content providers who have chosen to take this journey with us.

It is through this ecosystem that MedKenya was born. The team will be going to U.S. to demo the technology for possible funding. This is how progress is made. Their idea is fresh and the design was sleek.

Fasmicro Training School – Mobile Apps, Embedded Systems & Circuit Design

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June 17, 2011

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Our Team can visit any Nigerian institution and teach Mobility Computing & Android Dev and/or Embedded Systems. This is our fee structure when the training is on-site and the institution provides the electricity and computers. We come with our tablets and microelectronics dev. kits. We charge a flat fee of N299,000/course for five straight days. Private institutions, government agencies, departments, or student clubs/associations can organize these programs with us.

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In some cases, we need a min for a training to hold. We train on-site and off-site and our dates are flexible.

Equipment: We have computers, Internet access, FPGA boards, PIC boards, SX48 microprocessors, Demo Boards, CADs for chip design (schematic, layout, verification), programming modules, Android platform, etc – all in-house. Everything you need (including access to ebooks) to become a master of this field with experts to guide.

Free electronic books: We will give electronics and Android related ebooks to all our participants. If you register ahead of time, we provide these materials to help you prepare before coming to class.

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IBM Marks 100 years – Employees Volunteer To Feed The Hungry

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June 17, 2011

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Hundreds of IBM employees at their Research Triangle Park campus in the US, are volunteering their time last week to pack meals destined to feed the hungry in Haiti.

“We’re setting up assembly-line-type operations on-site to do this,” said Bob Greenberg, IBM’s top executive in North Carolina. “The goal is 100,000 meals.”

The 100,000 figure is no arbitrary number. It was picked to commemorate IBM’s 100th anniversary as a company which comes up this Thursday.

One hundred years later, IBM has more than 425,000 workers worldwide and last year’s revenue came in just under $100 billion – $99.9 billion. Among the company’s lengthy list of inventions and discoveries is the bar code, which was born in the Triangle.

The volunteer work for Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief organization based in the Triangle, is part of a worldwide “Celebration of Service” day for employees of the company once known as International Business Machines.

“It’s about the heritage of the company,” Greenberg said. “IBM has always looked at itself as playing a leadership role in doing things that make a difference for people around the world.”

Today IBM has about 10,000 workers in RTP; IBM doesn’t disclose how many employees it has locally or statewide. In recent years it has cut jobs in the Triangle and across the world, but without specifying the depth of those cuts and usually without even acknowledging that cuts were implemented.

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