Data for Development challenge in Africa: the real value of Orange Group.

As a must-attend landmark for digital transformation for the companies and public sectors of all sizes, Connectikpeople.co encourages the open innovations strategies and technologies. In our data-driven, mobile-driven, smart devices and objects-driven, sensors-driven and cloud computing-driven world, this kind of approach is the key, when it comes to improve our living conditions, innovate and to make smart decisions. 
Connectikpeople.co is progressively seduced by the solid efforts deployed by Orange, when it comes to motivate scientists using digital technology to promote development and progress for everyone, individuals, regions and communities in Africa.



This French-based telcos company uses the technical data of its networks in Africa to empower researchers involved in education and economic development, particularly for the business ecosystem and local start-ups.
Following the first contest in Ivory Coast, the next Data for Development (D4D) Challenge will reward the best research projects aimed at promoting development and improving the well-being of people in Senegal. 
The five priorities are healthcare, agriculture, transportation and infrastructure, energy
and producing national statistics.
 Connectikpeople.co can also observed that, the challenge also aims to contribute towards achieving a more technical goal by rewarding the best work on improving algorithms for anonymisation, data mining, and data visualisation and cross-matching.