Motswana IT Guru Scoops Orange Africa Prize

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.