Digital Bridge Initiative News




Alcatel joins with ATD Quart Monde and Data Telecom Service to offer high speed Internet access to disadvantaged people in Madagascar
[September 28, 2006]
Alcatel 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. Click here

Are ICTs a lever of development and growth engines for African countries? [May 2, 2006]
This was the topic of the latest international seminar on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in which Alcatel participated during March in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Click here

Alcatel strengthens its relationships with ITU
[April 2006]
In March Alcatel participated in a Partners’ panel during the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) held in Doha, Qatar. click here

Mzansi: an Internet Café to bridge the digital divide [March 2006]
The project was co-sponsored by Alcatel and Telkom, the largest communications services provider in Africa. click here

Alcatel partners with Global Imaging Online for the development of digital medical imagery in Africa via broadband [January 2006]
Alcatel announced today the signature of a 3-year MOU with Global Imaging Online, a French company specializing in medical treatment and medical diagnostic imagery. click here

Alcatel @ World Summit on the Information Society [November 2005]
Alcatel shows commitment to emerging markets at WSIS in Tunis. click here

Alcatel, main partner of the World Summit on Information Society in Tunis. [July 27, 2005]
Alcatel signed an exclusive partnership with the “Cowsis” (the organizing committee of the WSIS) to provide telecommunications solutions for the next World Summit on Information Society to be held in Tunis (Tunisia) in November 2005. click here

Launch of a Digital Bridge initiative in South Africa [July 4, 2005].
Alcatel announced in cooperation with Manobi, an operator of mobile and Internet business services in developing countries and Vodacom, the main telecom operator in South Africa, the launch of a groundbreaking pilot project to connect rural farmers to real time market information. click here

Alcatel becomes a founding partner of the "Connect the World" initiative launched by the International Telecommunication Union [June 16, 2005]
Connect the world initiative will focus on three key areas of activity: enabling environment, infrastructure & readiness, and application & services. Alcatel will contribute with concrete actions to the last two building blocks. click here

Alcatel signs a MOU with Manobi to provide mobile services in Africa and the Middle East [29 March 2005]
Alcatel will be involved in the running of several pilot projects that will improve the standard of living and infrastructure in the rural sector of developing and emerging countries.click here

Alcatel supports the activities of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) [February 9, 2005]
Confirming its commitment to bridge the digital divide and following the signature of the UN Global Compact in 2003, Alcatel announced the signature of a MoU with the United Nations ESCWA, whose member countries consists of the 13 Arab countries. click here

Manobi, Alcatel's partner in Senegal, chosen as one of the five best World Summit Award project holders in e-inclusion and creativity - [November 2003]
Manobi, Alcatel's mobile service partner in Senegal, has been chosen as one of the five best World Summit Award project holders in e-inclusion and creativity from more than 800 e-content projects around the world, click here