Orange Inaugurates Its Eleventh Digital Centre in Liberia To Promote Digital Literacy

orange and the german development cooperation has continued to train young people in the application of digital technologies by opening the Orange Digital Center in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.

Following Tunisia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Madagascar and Morocco, the Liberia Center is the 11th Orange Digital Center to be opened by the duo.

The Center’s four programs are spread over 715m.² A space that hosts a coding school, Solidarity FabLab, one of the Orange Foundation’s digital manufacturing workshops, and the Orange Fab startup accelerator backed by investment fund Orange Ventures Africa.

The aim of the center is to increase digital literacy among the region’s youth, a demographic that is exclusively targeted in the hopes of propelling them to fruitful digital careers. There is none.

All programs are free and open to everyone. The content ranges from 90% hands-on digital training, guidance for project owners, startup acceleration, and investment advice.

The network approach it advocates allows the Center to share information, experience and expertise among the countries involved in the initiative, along with neighboring Centers in other destinations.

Networks foster innovation, entrepreneurship, and the development of local digital ecosystems.

Although officially launched this week, the Orange Digital Center in Liberia has actually been operational since earlier this year, using that time to host a variety of training sessions and digital events.

In addition, Orange Liberia will partner with several universities to establish the ‘Orange Digital Center Club’, an extension of coding schools within the region’s universities.Complement your existing education system

Marius YAO, CEO of Orange Liberia, said: Orange Digital Centers Clubs will soon be established at local universities to provide all the necessary skills, provide access to new technologies to as many people as possible, and help them get the most out of them. Offers.

Speaking at the opening ceremony Brelotte BaDeputy CEO of Orange Middle East and Africa, explains the center’s purpose: work tomorrow.

Orange and German Development Cooperation are working together as part of a national development partnership. Development PPP program,Which Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

This program focuses on the following Sustainable Development Goals through digital technology: united nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: (SDG 4) Quality Education, (SDG 5) Gender Equality, (SDG 8) Decent Work and Economic Growth, (SDG 9) Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, (SDG 10) Reducing Inequality, (SDG 17) ) Partnerships for the Goals.

In line with its socioeconomic goals, the program also works to promote gender equality and inclusion by facilitating access to ICT jobs for women and girls.

Describing the project as an important step in our social responsibility for digital inclusion, Elizabeth CheongiExecutive Director of CSR, Diversity and Philanthropy at Orange and Vice Chairman of the Orange Foundation, said FabLab will “become a more It is an integral component of this socially useful activity.”