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Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation   |  Digital Bridge Initiative

Alcatel-Lucent’s Digital Bridge Initiative seeks to create win-win solutions based on innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in under-served, usually rural areas, in emerging countries. This is undertaken with the active involvement of local players, in order to create high added value services and applications designed to answer the needs of the local population.

E-Powering South Africa’s Schools
Alcatel-Lucent together with the Telkom Foundation in South Africa, announced the opening of an e-learning center and internet café at Grassy Park High School in Cape Town..
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New: Alcatel-Lucent Boosts fair trade coffee
Alcatel-Lucent, Cafés Malongo, the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, and Voilà to provide Haitian coffee cooperatives Internet access from their plantations by applying WiMAX and RFID technologies.
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Economic development

Offering high speed Internet access to disadvantaged people in Madagascar

The company has signed an agreement with ATD Quart Monde, a non-governmental organization set up to fight world poverty, and Data Telecom Service, an Internet service provider and telecommunications operator in Madagascar, to supply broadband Internet access to the deprived people of Antananarivo.
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Incubating Local Entrepreneurs: the Cairo Partnership Center

The company launched a “Partnership Center” in Cairo in September 2005 This incubation center located within Alcatel-Lucent premises is open to local partners selected on the basis of proposals. The company provides developers with a platform for the realization of innovative applications and services designed for mobile networks.

 

E-health

Alcatel-Lucent joins forces with the Fondation Thiam to provide a communications solution for emergency services at the Gabriel Touré Hospital in Bamako, Mali
Alcatel-Lucent participates in the renovation of the emergency services’ technical platform at the Gabriel Touré hospital in Bamako (Mali) by providing a complete and integrated business communications solution for all emergency services staff.
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Pésinet: e-medecine to Fight Infant Mortality in Mali

Pésinet has been designed to provide preventative healthcare services for children from 0 to 5 years old from low-income households thanks to remote diagnosis based on the tracking and monitoring of changes in the children’s weight.
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International commitment to digital inclusion

Alcatel-Lucent congratulated by ITU
On April 16th, 2007 at the opening ceremony of the Telecom Development Advisory Group (TDAG) in Geneva, Mr. Sami Al-Basheer, the ITU-D director, handed the Alcatel-Lucent delegation to this meeting a certificate acknowledging the gratitude of the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) for Alcatel-Lucent ‘s long-standing support during the last ten years.
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Alcatel-Lucent and the UN agency ESCWA  issue a report untitled "Broadband for development in the ESCWA Region
This report highlights the telecommunications development potential in 13 Middle-East countries, with examples of concrete business cases. It also provides an assessment of factors that hinder the deployment and spread of broadband, while proposing concrete actions to build the information society by using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) as a development enabler.
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Founding partner of the "Connect the world "initiative
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Connect the World” is a global multi-stakeholder initiative launched by the International Telecommunication within the context of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, to consolidate and scale up existing development-oriented connectivity projects and stimulate new partnerships to achieve the goal of connecting all communities by 2015 in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) . It has 22 founding partners, including leading international companies, inter-governmental organizations, NGO s and national governments.
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