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Orange’s first African 5G laboratory launched in Dakar

The open space in the Orange Digital Center digital skills support and development center represents an opportunity for project leaders and companies to experience the quality of their tech products. A necessary phase to ensure their competitiveness.

Orange’s very first 5G lab (Orange 5G Lab) in Africa has opened its doors in Dakar, Senegal. Intended for the digital ecosystem and economic players, this space dedicated to the experimentation and development of products and services compatible with telecom technology was officially inaugurated on Thursday, June 30, by Sékou Dramé, the director general of the National Society of telecommunications (Sonatel), and the director of technology and innovation of Orange, Michaël Trabbia.

Michaël Trabbia said that 5G is a lever for business competitiveness and regional development. This is why Orange is committed to a co-innovation approach around 5G to create the uses of tomorrow. ” Territorial anchoring is key in the Orange 5G Lab system, to support the digital transformation of economic players, and to help everyone take advantage of the potential of 5G “, he argued.

Orange 5G Lab Dakar is housed at the Orange Digital Center in Dakar in a 108 m² room with several universes that can be used as a demonstration space for virtual reality and augmented reality services, a gaming or co-working space. This space offers use cases dedicated to companies in several areas (e-Health, smart port, smart edu, smart Agri) in partnership with technology providers Huawei and Nokia; demos in co-innovation with the ecosystem and startups: Caytu in partnership with the Dakar American University of Science and Technology (DAUST), Senvital in partnership with Sonatel corporate medicine.

Orange 5G Lab Dakar is the 14th technological space of its kind to be inaugurated by the French telecoms group in all of its markets. There are already ten in France and one in Romania, Belgium and Poland. More than 1,200 companies and communities have already benefited from the technological space, including 114 who have been able to implement an experiment around their own use cases, relates We Are Tech Africa.

In Senegal, the introduction of 5G associated with new technologies such as Big data, AI, augmented reality aims to stimulate the transformation of the Senegalese society and economy in key areas such as agriculture, public health, education, entrepreneurship and youth employability. Senegal.DetailZero

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