Africa Digital Manager Award, 10 projects nominated for the final stages.

Inetum (ex-Gfi), in partnership with the Ecole Centrale de Casablanca, is organizing the Africa Digital Manager Award (ADMA) to reward companies and managers who are leading digitalization projects in Africa. After a pre-selection of applications from among the many received, a jury of professionals will now determine a winner for each of the three geographical areas concerned: Central Africa, North Africa and West Africa. 

West Africa

Three projects from West Africa are candidates for the ADMA award, all of which have a strong social and societal dimension and use digital technology to improve the quality of services provided to populations.

In Mali, the company Denko Kunafoni presents an e-health project with the objective of fighting maternal and infant mortality through a platform developed in local languages, allowing awareness and remote monitoring of pregnant women. This platform issues alerts on cell phones concerning prenatal and postnatal vaccination programs. It also allows for pregnancy monitoring, gynecological counseling, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, breastfeeding and infectious disease awareness.

The second project named in this region is being developed in Benin, where the company GOMEDICAL's main mission is to generalize access to healthcare and simplify the patient experience. The company offers a smartphone application and a web portal that allow patients to make appointments with practitioners registered with the Beninese medical association, as well as with the various health centers that adopt GOMEDICAL's solution.

The third candidate project for the West region concerns the modernization and harmonization of the information systems of the Senegalese social security fund (CSS) and the Senegalese pension institute (IPRES) through the computerization of all technical, operational and support departments.

 

Central Africa

For the Central Africa region, Orange Cameroon has joined the list of nominations with two candidate projects.

The first, called My Way+, is a digital interface implemented in the My Orange application allowing subscribers to customize the packages they wish to subscribe to.

Orange's second project is in line with the organization's policy of openness to its various audiences. Called Virtu'O, this platform allows, among other things, to make virtual visits to Orange's departments and agencies in Cameroon, to learn about the jobs and career plans offered by the group and to follow the various Webinars and speeches of the departments.

CotizApp Congo is the third digitalization project selected for the Central Africa region. Piloted by the Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale des Agents Publics de l'Etat (CNSSAP), CotizApp Congo allows career civil servants to access their contribution statements, simulate the amount of their future pension and manage their claims with CNSSAP.

North Africa

In North Africa, four digital projects are nominated around a common prism embodying a digitalization dynamic that encompasses the various key functions of the company, ranging from business processes to service offering and customer relations.

The first project is presented by the Moroccan group Maghreb Accessoires / Autoplus in which digitalization is considered a key growth vector to modernize the organization and develop the distribution processes. As such, its application for the ADMA competition presents a horizontal digitalization project including, among other things, the implementation of an SAP ERP to centralize, dematerialize and automate business processes, to improve the customer experience through new interactive and multi-channel interfaces with real-time monitoring of management and delivery.

Amendis, a subsidiary of the Veolia Group in Morocco, entered the competition with a project on customer relations. It corresponds to the launch of a multi-channel platform allowing Moroccan customers to make all commercial requests online, whether for real-time monitoring of contracts, the group's news and topics related to the preservation of the resource.

The third project is presented by MACIRVIE, the Algerian subsidiary of the Compagnie Internationale d'Assurance et de Réassurance (CIAR). It concerns a global digitalization that includes the overhaul of the group's IT architecture and the implementation of a new ERP system internally. In addition, the group is working to launch its international payment platform via MASTERCARD in the near future, with a view to satisfying the growing demand from the Algerian public.

The fourth project is proposed by WafaCash, the Moroccan leader in money transfer, which presents a program related to the development of a Mobile Money offer in Morocco and in sub-Saharan Africa. This is the JIBI payment account, which offers a range of services for cell phones that are 100% digital, secure and interoperable with all other payment accounts on the market. It offers a range of services for mobile phones, 100% digital, secure and interoperable with all other payment accounts on the market, whether for money transfers, bill payments, merchant payments, bank transfers or telecom recharges.

The ADMA awards ceremony

The Africa Digital Manager Award is scheduled for May at the Ecole Centrale in Casablanca. The projects selected by the Jury will benefit from a double support: a consulting support provided by Inetum's expert consultants for the winning organization; a Six Sigma Green Belt certification training provided by the École Centrale de Casablanca for the manager who carried the project.