ACCORDING TO BADANG, ORANGE’S AFRICAN GROWTH LEVERS ARE:

Financial services

Energy

Agriculture

Education

“Orange is offering a dozen mobile services for farmers across eight countries in cooperation with over 15 partners that include NGOs, ministries, chambers of commerce, local industries, universities and startups.

For instance, our X-agri service leverages computer data, allowing farmers to better manage their production by making more informed and accurate decisions. This solution runs on a mobile phone and uses 2G to collect data. This 2G connection is important as in some rural areas it is sometimes the only one available and data packages can be either useless or too expensive for farmers.” “40 million Africans have opened Orange Money accounts. It is a major change, from storing money anywhere to putting it safely in an account where it can be sent to anyone, or pay for groceries, road tax or school fees, for example. We are now expanding our mobile financial services with complementary services (loans and insurance) and we will be launching an African Bank in 2019.” “Equally, we’re looking to enable the supply, distribution and payment for electricity access solutions by future Orange prospects and customers in partnership with solar home system manufacturers. Our Orange Energy service has already been launched in seven African countries – the DRC, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire.” “Our ‘African Digital School’ project is designed to face the challenge of education headon by delivering online courses, training in digital trades and by training teachers in new technologies.”