As Attractive Prizes Set for Innovative Projects… Orange Launches 2024 Social Venture Prize

One of the country’s leading Telecommunication Companies, Orange-SL, has recently launched its 2024 Social venture prize competition, inviting applicants to submit their technological and innovative projects for a chance to win exciting prizes. The 2024 OSVP is the 6^th Edition in Sierra Leone and 14^th edition in Africa and the Middle East to support social innovation and local Entrepreneurship. Participants of this event stand a chance to win the National Prize of NLE 200,000 and the International Prize of €25,000. To participate, interested individuals can submit their applications at https://poesam.orange.com/en/. The deadline for submissions is set for the 26th May, 2024.

Through this competition, Orange-SL being a responsible corporate and social investor, aims to contribute to the human capital development, support local social and environmental innovations, and encouraging entrepreneurship in Sierra Leone.

Since 2019, OSVP prize has been awarded to innovative projects in the field of education, healthcare, e-commerce, and agriculture and projects that contribute to achieving sustainable development goals using digital technology. The competition has two stages:

1. The National Stage:

Applications will be submitted from the 25^th March – 26^th May 2024 for the National and Women’s competition. At the end of this application phase, a national pitch competition will be held in August 2024 to award the National and Women’s category winners. The winners will receive the following prizes:

• NLe 200,000 – National Winner
• NLe 120,000 – Women’s Winner

2. The International Stage:

The National and Women category winners from each subsidiary in the 17 Orange affiliates in Africa and Middle East will automatically be selected for the international phase. After their evaluation, 10 finalists will be selected. A final jury of African tech influencers will select the top 3 winners of the OSVP International Grand Prize in October/November 2024.

As equal opportunity is a key aspect of Orange policy, an International Women’s Prize will also be awarded for the fifth consecutive year. This prize will be awarded to a woman who offers a technological solution to improve the living conditions of women (women’s independence, job creation or preservation, gender data collection, digital and financial inclusion, etc.).

The winners of the international and women’s competition will receive the following prizes:

• €25,000 for 1^st place international winner
• €15,000 for 2^nd place international winner
• €10,000 for 3^rd place international winner
• €20,000 for Women’s international winner

Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your innovative ideas and potentially secure a prestigious prize from Orange!