Orange Launches its first “Orange Digital Centre” in Tunisia

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Orange has opened the “Orange Digital Center” in Tunis, a place built around a completely new concept and entirely dedicated to innovation. 

The Orange Digital Centre was set-up as a centre to provide wide-ranging support for startups. From training young people in coding to more direct guidance, as well as startup acceleration and investment in early-stage companies, these new sites are intended for all kinds of different people. It once again highlights Orange’s capacity as a responsible entity, supporting digital transformation and local innovation in all the countries within the operator\’s footprint.

The Orange Digital Centre houses four (4) strategic programs under the same roof: the coding school, the FabLab Solidaire, Orange Fab and Orange Digital Ventures Africa.

  • The coding school is a freely accessible and totally free-of-charge technological centre that offers training and events for the community of young developers, geeks and people with ideas for projects. It is particularly aimed at students, young graduates and young entrepreneurs.
  • The FabLab Solidaire is a digital production workshop for creating and prototyping with digital equipment, such as 3D printers, milling machines and laser cutters. It brings together both young people who are unemployed and have no qualifications as well as students, young graduates and young entrepreneurs.
  • Orange Fab is a startup accelerator with an aim to build national and international business partnerships with the Orange Group and the international Orange Fab network. This programme helps improve managerial capabilities and provides support for the commercial development of promising startups, and it is mainly aimed at entrepreneurs.
  • Orange Digital Ventures Africa is a 50-million euro investment fund for financing innovative startups in Africa and the Middle East (fintech, e-health, energy, edutech and govtech), and it targets entrepreneurs.

Twenty-seven (27) partner universities make up the system in Tunisia, alongside five centers in the region. Their aim is to offer access to and support for the best uses of networks to the largest number of people possible. 

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