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