Orange
Participants with the best innovative ideas will bag home cash prize of Le150 million Leones.
Speaking at the launching event, Head of Public Relations, Annie Wonie Katta, said as a mobile telecoms company, Orange is positioned to be the lead digital partner for startups in
She said the idea was to reward the best technological projects with positive impact and solution to social challenges mainly in the fields of education, health, agriculture, mobile payments or sustainable development in
The competition is organized annually in all 17 Orange affiliates in
She further stated that Orange
"The 2019 winner
She said last year, they accelerated the tempo of OSVP with the support of their partner, Innovate
She said out of a total of 128 applicants,
She said also in 2021, they introduced an additional prize to increase female participation and to promote projects offering a technological solution to improve the living conditions of women and in that new category, one Sia Chaywai emerged as the winner with a Le50 million grand prize to support the enhancement of her mobile clinic project.
"This year we are poise to spend a whooping sum of Le150 million for the two categories of the OSVP competition, Le100 million for the general prize and Le50 million for the women's category. For the second consecutive year we will continue with the women category and this year we shall go live with a local theme with the catch phrase "Orange Tech Queen," she said.
She said as a mobile telecoms company, Orange is positioned to be the lead digital partner for startups whilst ensuring that they will transform the lives of young people in
She thanked their implementing partner, Innovate
She encourages young entrepreneurs, women as well as men to participate with the best of ideas to ensure
Also speaking, the Managing Director of Innovate
He said the grand rules of this year's competition are that all participants must be 21 years and above, and that people working for Orange and Innovation
He said all applicants should have a bank account and that they must apply for the
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