Orange has said that it has presented Emerginov, an open-ended solution for the co-development of mobile micro-services by innovation players in Africa, at the InnovAfrica forum in Dakar.

It said that it is providing the source code for Emerginov to African organizations, institutions, academic organisations, and NGOs and assisting them in their mobile services development projects.

Emerginov is a software solution produced by Orange Labs . It incorporates multiple open source software components and enables the development of applications based on SMS or on vocal interfaces. Together with mobile-embedded technologies, the solution can provide simple services, giving the mobile user access to expertise or to content in different fields such as health, agriculture and trade. The partners also benefit from an open-ended solution combining conventional telephone resources with access to IT services (web hosting, content storage, access to third-party APIs) from a simple web browser.

Orange’s Emerginov platform is already used for competitive programming as well as research contracts with African universities (University of Dakar, ESMT and Université Gaston Berger in Senegal, University of Technology and University of Mauritius, and the University of Botswana).