Emerginovan open PHP PaaS to stimulate and animate local co-innovation
http://emerginov.ow2.org
M. Richomme, Orange Labs
Emerginov: what is it?
Mobile users
or any other Telecom provider assets
External Services
Small/ Home Offices
Universities
Local developers
Diaspora
Local operator
Telecom
Web Local users
All-in-one platform under a free license and developped by
Web hosting& Storage Interactive Voice
Server
API shop- Text To Speech
- Short Message Service- Voice Calls
Routable local phone number
ForgeAll applications
under free license
What is Emerginov?Emerginov: what is it?
Emerginov: what is it?
It's a tool collection...
Emerginov: what is it?
A Platform As a Service (PaaS): a web developer uploads his/her code then deploy through web interface the code into a rich runtime environment
Emerginov: what is it?
A community
Original Bottom-Up approach: services from the field
Ecosystem of partners (Universities, NGOs, institutional partners)
Emerginov: what is it?
An incubator of open source micro-services
Library of micro services
massive reuse
in line with institutional requirements on digital sustainability
Community version
Official release for InnovAfrica Dakar 26-30/11/2012
Full open source version including
An API shop (Orange Nursery)
A PHP ToolKit to control calls
Text to speech and vocal recognition based on Google APIs integrated at PHP level
The « glue » between all the components :
Web portal Deployement scripts Documents API shop
Emerginov : what is it for ?Voices (2011)(Web Foundation, TNO, SahelCo,.. EU project) / Mali, Senegal)
Widget birth declaration (2011) (NGO Santé&Action, Health minister/Senegal)
Codecamp orange Expo 2010 &2011(MT, Mauritius Universities)
Service creativity sessions (2012)(Orange Botswana, University of Botswana)
E-education IFADEM (2012) (AUF, AFD/Madagascar)
Content project Niger (2012)(AFD, Orange foundation/ Niger)
Medicines management (2012)(Pharmacie Humanitaire, Senegal)
Widget quiz (2012)(Unicef, Senegal)
Market place (2012)(Ilab Cairo/Egypt)
Orange Money web API(University of Technology of Mauritius)
Low-cost USSD enabler (2011)(University of Technology of Mauritius)
Basic Wolof voice recognition (2011)(ESMT/Senegal)
Geolocation (2012)(UCAD/Senegal)
Webradio API(2012)(University of Botswana)
Research projects Projects, with partners
Emerginov has been and is used to support several projects in Africa
Commonwealth Telecommunication organizations event (2012)(MT, Universities of Mauritiues)
Hackathlon (2012)(LIRIMA/Cameroon)
Thanks
Backup slides
Emerginov: Context
Mobile is everywhere IT technologies are generalizedLack of infrastructure and network connectivy limited and not always stable
African Youth is skilled, trained and imaginative
Litteracy rate is low and there are lots of vernacular languages
We need a Platform to manage simple telco services (SMS based, kiosk)
The platform must be openBased on commodity hardware
Use Open source solution to share the dev and production environment
Everything including call control could be done through web interfaces/API
Organize codecamps, trainings, hackathlon but let local people develop for local people
Focus on vocal services
A real-life infrastructure
3 core platforms (France, Mauritius, Senegal)6 Gateways (Botswana, France, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Senegal)1 open source solution (Botswana)Several Pre-studies in progress (CI, Egypt, Uganda)