{"id":64021,"date":"2026-02-27T09:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/?p=64021"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:19:24","slug":"sierra-leone-gambie-partenariat-pnud-africell-pour-linnovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/?p=64021","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone-Gambie : partenariat PNUD-Africell pour l\u2019innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"copy\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<section class=\"main\">Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le d\u00e9veloppement (PNUD) et l\u2019op\u00e9rateur mobile Africell ont conclu un partenariat visant \u00e0 renforcer la connectivit\u00e9 num\u00e9rique des p\u00f4les d&rsquo;innovation universitaire (UniPods) en Sierra Leone et en Gambie pour stimuler l\u2019innovation technologique et l\u2019entrepreneuriat. Au-del\u00e0 de la connectivit\u00e9, les deux partenaires ont \u00e9galement convenu de collaborer sur des programmes d\u2019innovation et d\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration, incluant la robotique, l\u2019entrepreneuriat et les formations en comp\u00e9tences num\u00e9riques, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l\u2019expertise d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9ploy\u00e9e par Africell en Afrique de l\u2019Ouest.<\/p>\n<p>Selon l\u2019accord, Africell fournira des infrastructures essentielles, incluant des routeurs MiFi 4G et des dispositifs li\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019Internet des objets. Cet apport garantira un acc\u00e8s internet haut d\u00e9bit, indispensable aux jeunes cr\u00e9ateurs pour d\u00e9velopper et tester leurs solutions technologiques aux UniPods.<\/p>\n<h3>Renforcer l&rsquo;\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me africain de l&rsquo;innovation<\/h3>\n<p>Les UniPods sont des espaces de fabrication high-tech int\u00e9gr\u00e9s aux universit\u00e9s publiques. Ils constituent le socle op\u00e9rationnel de l\u2019initiative timbuktoo du PNUD, un vaste programme continental con\u00e7u pour stimuler l\u2019investissement dans les startups africaines et transformer les id\u00e9es acad\u00e9miques en produits commercialisables. Ziad Dalloul, PDG du Groupe Africell et pr\u00e9sident de la Fondation Africell Impact, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que le partenariat joue sur les forces compl\u00e9mentaires des deux organisations : l\u2019expertise d\u2019Africell en connectivit\u00e9 et le r\u00e9seau d\u2019innovation du PNUD. \u00ab Nous aidons \u00e0 transformer les talents bruts en entreprises prosp\u00e8res \u00bb, a-t-il soulign\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Ahunna Eziakonwa, directrice r\u00e9gionale du PNUD pour l\u2019Afrique, a indiqu\u00e9 que l\u2019inclusion num\u00e9rique offre aux jeunes la possibilit\u00e9 de transformer leurs id\u00e9es en solutions. \u00ab En levant les obstacles aux opportunit\u00e9s, nous acc\u00e9l\u00e9rons la voie de l&rsquo;Afrique vers la comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 et une croissance inclusive \u00bb, a-t-elle expliqu\u00e9. Le partenariat s\u2019inscrit dans les efforts plus larges du PNUD visant \u00e0 renforcer l\u2019\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me d\u2019innovation propre \u00e0 l\u2019Afrique et faciliter l\u2019acc\u00e8s des jeunes aux technologies et aux march\u00e9s, dans un contexte de transformation num\u00e9rique acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e sur le continent.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"info-row\">\n<nav class=\"navbar\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"article navigation\">\n<div class=\"navbar-menu is-active\">\n<div class=\"navbar-start\"><strong>dpa<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le d\u00e9veloppement (PNUD) et l\u2019op\u00e9rateur mobile Africell ont conclu un partenariat visant \u00e0 renforcer la connectivit\u00e9 num\u00e9rique des p\u00f4les d&rsquo;innovation universitaire (UniPods) en Sierra Leone et en Gambie pour stimuler l\u2019innovation technologique et l\u2019entrepreneuriat. Au-del\u00e0 de la connectivit\u00e9, les deux partenaires ont \u00e9galement convenu de collaborer sur des programmes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,78,99],"tags":[30,15512,15513,15514],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-actualite","8":"category-afrique","9":"category-tech","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-partenariat-pnud-africell","12":"tag-sierra-leone-gambie","13":"tag-unipods"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64021"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftmauthors&post=64021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}