Orange Digital Center Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Orange's digital skills hub in Ouagadougou delivered 243,000 training hours to 4,869 young Burkinabe in 2025 alone, 1,255 of them …
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Orange Digital Center Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire · Abidjan · See the Côte d'Ivoire profile
A 1,200 m² hub in Abidjan's Plateau district combining a free coding school, a solidarity FabLab, a startup accelerator and an investment fund; opened in October 2021 with GIZ and AWS, it has since trained over 3,500 people and backed 92 startups.
3,500+
People trained at the centre (2021–2025)
92
Startups supported
14,500+
People supported across three countries (by 2025)
Details
- Maturity
- Scaling
- Promoter
- Orange Côte d'Ivoire (Orange Group), with GIZ and Amazon Web Services
- Period
- 2021–present
- Keywords
- digital skills training, coding, startup incubation, digital manufacturing, entrepreneurship
Context
Opened in October 2021 in Abidjan's Plateau district with GIZ and AWS, the 1,200 m² Orange Digital Center Côte d'Ivoire bundles a free coding school, a solidarity FabLab, the Orange Fab startup accelerator and the Orange Ventures Africa investment fund, with priority access for women, out-of-school youth and people with disabilities.
Results
Orange reports more than 3,500 people trained and 92 startups supported at the site; satellite 'ODC Club' spin-offs have followed, and by 2025 Orange counted over 14,500 people supported across Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Liberia combined.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-07-03
- Orange Côte d'Ivoire (Orange Group), with GIZ and Amazon Web Services — accessed 2026-07-03
- Orange Developer — Orange Digital Center: a key driver in Côte d'Ivoire — accessed 2026-07-03
- Communications Africa — Orange inaugurates the 5th Orange Digital Center in Africa and the Middle East — accessed 2026-07-03
- Digital Business Africa — L'Orange Digital Center Côte d'Ivoire officiellement lancé à Abidjan — accessed 2026-07-03
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