Besides its commitment with start-ups, Orange has also attracted the interest of African partners and of the ecosystem of developers in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Mali and Senegal by organising an API challenge this summer via Orange Partner, the programme for developers exposing Orange APIs. Developers received the SMS, USSD and credit airtime API’s and were challenged to develop various applications for different sectors (agriculture, transportation, voting and games). Orange will use the feedback from developers in order to launch an API portfolio in 2015, dedicated to the AMEA region, starting with the launch of the SMS API. the 5 start-ups of Fab Israel 5 start-ups were selected from150 submissions: - Parko: a traffic data management application with a ’smart’ navigation that offers a real-time estimation of how long it will take to find a parking space.
Katika hatua nyingine akiongea na watendaji wa TANROADS Mkoa wa Singida pamoja na Wakandarasi wanaotengeneza barabara ya Manyoni-Itigi –Chaya kwenye ukumbi wa Hospitali ya Misheni ya Mtakatifu Gasper mjini Itigi,Naibu Waziri wa Ujenzi,Uchukuzi na Mawasiliano, Mhandisi Edwin Ngonyani amesema ili kukabiliana na wizi wa miundombinu ya barabara,Halmashauri ya Itigi haina budi kushirikiana na watendaji wa wizara hiyo kuwabaini wahalifu kwani serikali imetumia fedha nyingi kujenga barabara hiyo,vile vile amewaeleza Wakandarasi sababu za kuchelewa kuwalipa malipo yao inatokana na serikali kukabiliwa na majukumu makubwa,lakini hakusita kuwaahidi kuwapatia malipo yao.