Motswana IT Guru Scoops Orange Africa Prize
Monday, November 17, 2014
The winners were announced in Cape town Thursday.
Gaotingwe’s innovation through an IT project for farming called Modisar also won him P300,000 financial grant, mentorship and training from Orange to roll out and implement its farm management application. The application will also be patented in the country of deployment which is Botswana and Orange will offer professional and expert coaching to the team. The start-up was competing against more than 450 applicants from 17 African countries.
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