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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.
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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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Offering high speed Internet access to disadvantaged people in
Madagascar
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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
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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.
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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
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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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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
"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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