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mot-clé: innovation
14
May
Orange African Social Venture Prize 2013: the competition gets underway!
Entrepreneurs will be delighted to hear that the third edition of the Orange African Social Venture Prize launches this week, with registration opening on Tuesday, May 14. No fewer than 1,000 applications were received for the last two competitions, reflecting the real entrepreneurial drive and the potential of telecommunications in Africa. Following on from this [...]
12
Apr
3rd Digital Meeting: Nine Projects to Help Young Workers
At the Third Digital Meeting on 29 March, the Orange Foundation presented the twelve projects it supported in 2012, all designed to promote training and professional employment for young workers using digital resources. Today, youth employment is a nation-wide challenge. The continuing development of digital technologies offers a powerful tool to motivate, instil confidence and [...]
28
Mar
#MP2013 mobile app – culture at your fingertips
In 2013, Marseille has been named the European capital of Culture. As we’ve been able to see in our recent findings at the Forum d’Avignon in November, culture and technology are increasingly linked, and the creative teams here at Orange have developed the event’s official mobile app, called “MP 2013”, in order to make your [...]
20
Mar
#orangefab accelerator – helping startups shape tomorrow’s world
In its ongoing quest to be at the heart of the innovation sector, Orange is lending a hand to American entrepreneurs, to give their startups the boost they need to lift off. Welcome to Orange Fab. Orange Fab is a three-month long accelerator program that supports U.S-based start-ups with an existing product that aims to [...]
15
Mar
#SXSW2013 time to wrap up in Austin
The South by Southwest Interactive 2013 is already over… Following an exciting week full of sensational discoveries and unusual findings, it’s already time to go home. But before boarding our plane, we decided to take one last stroll in the Austin Convention Centre to see if we hadn’t missed out on anything. And we came [...]
13
Mar
#SXSW2013 – have Google glasses found their match?
Day 3 at South by Southwest 2013 and the convention centre in Austin is still buzzing as ever, with A-list celebrities now joining the show. US rapper Lupe Fiasco was indeed seen promoting his latest album, produced in collaboration with a rising startup which is about to launch its very own social network. But the [...]
12
Mar
#SXSW2013 – innovation, but for what use?
Day 2 of South by Southwest Interactive 2013 raised a few questions about the usefulness of some of the latest technologies presented in Austin. Indeed, if innovation is more than ever present at SXSW, some creations we discovered left us wondering what their real purpose might be – for instance the Necomini cats’ears that analyse [...]
11
Mar
#hellopolys through the eye of street artist Vinnie
Ten days before the official launch of Hellopolys, the first Facebook-based telecom management game, French street artist Vinie came to ply her trade at ‘le M.U.R’, close to Oberkamp in Paris, for a live painting session unlike any other! To prepare for the imminent launch of Hellopolys on March 18th (the beta version is already [...]
08
Mar
welcome to Austin! #SXSW2013
We have just landed in Texas but we’re not here for the rodeos and some King Ranch Chicken. The next few days will be dedicated to one of the biggest festivals in the world in terms of music, cinema and high tech. Indeed, we’re here in the capital of Texas for the South by South [...]
07
Mar
#SXSW2013 – 15 years in the making
As spring descends on Texas, Austin prepares itself for the tens of thousands of tech geeks set to touch down for South by South West (SXSW) next week. This multi-faceted festival has been running for 15 years, showcasing a host of film, interactive and music events. Let’s interact The Interactive branch of this year’s SXSW [...]
