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Young Africans
to be trained
in digital
technology
Orange and
OpenClassrooms are
to provide digital
training in Africa
O
range and OpenClassrooms are to
provide digital training in Africa. Several
Orange subsidiaries across the continent are
already working on the launch of training
centres, with online courses being provided.
To rise to the challenge of the digital
revolution in Africa, students and teachers
need to be trained in the new technology.
There are two objectives for countries in
Africa: to use digital technology to boost
growth and to focus on new sectors of
business that create jobs.
Therefore, to support Africa in this major
project, Orange and OpenClassrooms,
a leader of French-language online
education, have combined forces to form
a broad-based partnership to train young
Africans in digital technology.
The students will have access to the
OpenClassrooms courses via the mobile
network. The courses can be followed on the
student’s smartphone for subjects that don’t
require a computer or on a computer with
Internet access via the user’s smartphone for
instance, for courses on programming.
“The digital revolution is an exceptional
opportunity for Africa, both as an
accelerator for development and for new
sectors of activity where it can excel,” said
Bruno Mettling, CEO of Orange Middle East
and Africa.
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Teraco to expand its
African offering
Teraco is to expand its Cape Town premises
T
eraco, Africa’s largest
vendor neutral colocation
data centre provider, is to
expand. Its Cape Town premises
will result in a facility five-times
larger than the original footprint
completed in early 2009, while
the Durban data centre, the
smallest of Teraco’s regional
facilities, will also be upgraded
due to increased demand.
“Responding to current and
future client demands is of
paramount importance,” said
Teraco CEO Lex van Wyk.
“We have created an
extremely robust offering and
as a result, there is no other
data centre in Africa capable
of offering access to the same choice
of connectivity, vast content or diverse
cloud providers that resides in Teraco.”
Van Wyk added that the African data
centre market is still rising.
“The potential for local growth is
immense,” he said.
“The African market grew an estimated
15.8% in 2017, with South Africa being
one of the top growth locations.
Lex van Wyk, CEO
at Teraco
“South Africa is well positioned
geographically to service the needs of
sub-Saharan Africa and on a colocation
basis, it is larger than the next 20 African
markets combined,” added van Wyk.
“Teraco has now built four fully-
operational data centres and launched
Africa’s first hyper-scale facility. Core
to our service offering is that all Teraco
data centres are truly vendor neutral,
highly connected and content rich
interconnection hubs.”
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