Motswana Wins Orange Innovation Award :: Mmegi Online

FarmConnecta, a Botswana-based start-up that has developed an information sharing and billing system designed for the agricultural community, has won the Orange AMEA Developers Challenge and received a prize valued at 10,000 euros.

The 2015 Orange AMEA Developers Challenge was launched in August in France and 11 other countries in Africa and the Middle East including Botswana, Cameroon, and Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Guinea Conakry, Jordan, Kenya, Mali, Niger and Senegal.
The purpose of the challenge is to help stimulate innovation in Africa by offering start-ups the possibility of using Orange’s application programming interfaces to enrich their applications with functionalities that are sometimes essential, such as billing or texting.

The call for applications attracted 1,200 innovative projects.

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