Emerginov An open incubator to stimulate local innovation '
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EmerginovAn open incubator to stimulate local innovation'Orange Labs
Morgan Richomme – Orange Labs
Co-innovation in emerging countries
GSM users
SOHO
Universities
Local developers
Diaspora
Local operator
Network(s)(IP, GSM)
High Mobile penetration rate
Telecom
WebMostly prepaid
Heterogeneous data coverageGood GSM coverage
Low literacy rateLots of vernacular languages
A local, young and innovative ecosystem
Services
Radio
Facebook, google APIs,..
Open prototyping platform bridging GSM and web worlds
Provide the toolbox allowing the development of local services by local people for local people
Platform all-in-one: from the code to the deployment over the top of the operator networks
Platform focusing on vocal enablers (IVR, Text-To-Speech)
Platform based on smart integration of open source components
Internet user Mobile user
Introduction to Emerginov
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Emerginov today
FlexibilityOpen innovationQuick deployment
Low cost solution
Infrastructures 3 core platforms available : France, Senegal, Mauritius 4 Gateways (Vocal and SMS for local low-cost communication equipments) already deployed in Africa : Mauritius, Mali, Botswana, France. Easily extensible to any African country (~ 1K€) Free APIs (SMS, Text-To-Speech, Call control, GSM groups, ...)
Services Vocal services : IVR, Conference bridge: local routable numbers. (default capacity : 24 simultaneous calls) SMS based services (in & out) Web services (web hosting included) Mobile services (provide server infrastructure)
– for Widget– for smartphone applications
Mash-up : Multi access bearer (SMS, Vocal, Data)
Sustainable Digital development Open source components to easily share technology with the partners Bootable USB key to allow developing with limited connectivity Reference library of open source business applications related to Africa Similar approach for generated content based on Creative-Commons licenses
Emerginov : what is it for ?Voices (2011) : European FP7 project - health and agriculture pilots(Web Foundation, TNO, SahelCo,.. EU project) / Mali, Senegal)
Widget birth declaration (2011) - m-health(NGO Santé&Action, Health minister)
Codecamp orange Expo 2010 &2011(MT, Mauritius Universities)
Service creativity sessions - m-agriculture(2012)(Orange Botswana, University of Botswana)
E-education IFADEM (2012) (AUF, AFD/Madagascar)
Content project Niger (2012) - education(AFD, Orange foundation/ Niger)
Medicines management - health (2012)(Pharmacie Humanitaire, Senegal)
Widget quiz - m-education (2012)(Unicef, Senegal)
Market place (2012)(Ilab Cairo/Egypt)
Orange Money web API(University of Technology of Mauritius)
Low-cost USSD enabler (2011)(University of Technology of Mauritius)
Basic Wolof voice recognition (2011)(ESMT/Senegal)
Geolocalization (2012)(UCAD/Senegal)
Webradio API(2012)(University of Botswana)
Technology
Emerginov has been and is used to support several projects in Africamicro-services
Emerginov: what is it?
An incubator of open source micro-services Library of micro services massive reuse in line with institutional requirements on digital sustainability
An agile and flexible Infrastructure all-in-one
Core platform in Dakar, Mauritius & France Gateways in Mauritius, Mali, France,
Botswana1 community Original Bottom-Up approach: services from the field Ecosystem of partners (> 250 people on the social
network)
Emerginov in action : codecamp Mauritius 2010
Emerginov : Beyond Orange Emerginov already introduced in RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du
Logiciel libre) 2011 in category community and education and during EFRAD (Recherche Francophone)
Publication of a open source version of Emerginov planned for 2012
Any partner soon welcome to join the open source community on this open PHP Paas
Thank youMore information on: http://www.emerginov.org