Orange Social Venture Prize Africa & Middle East 2019 is now open for registration. The contest aims to reward the best innovative and socially responsible business projects in Africa and the Middle East. Moreover, it is looking for the best business venture projects using technological innovation in the service of the society and/or the environment. If you are an entrepreneur with a project or a project idea to be deployed in one of the 18 participating countries, you can apply to the Orange Social Venture Prize Africa and Middle East, starting today and for the next three months.

The contest unfolds in two steps: first, the projects compete for national awards against other projects deployed in the same country; then, the winners compete in an international competition, with a different jury and higher stakes. At both national and international step, the viewers can vote to add a name to the jury shortlist.

Award Benefits

• 1st Grand Prize: €25,000
  2nd Grand Prize: €15,000
  3rd Grand Prize: €10,000
• Above all, Orange experts provide the winners with customised digital mentoring and advice. These international awards complete the various prizes delivered locally to national winners.

Eligibility

• Open to natural persons aged over 21 years at the date of the initiation of the Competition
• Only one entry per household/legal person/IT address (same name, same address) will be accepted
• The Project must concern a territory or a geographical market containing at least one country from the African continent and the Middle-East region in which the Orange group is present. The countries concerned are: Botswana, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Liberia, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leonne as well as Tunisia.
• In addition, the Project must involve Information and Communications Technologies and have a societal impact.

Applying

The Competition is accessible only via the Internet. Therefore, the participants must complete and send the participation form and the project file via the Site within the given deadlines.