Le vendredi 14 juin dernier, le gouvernement Burkina Faso has launched the connection of nine out of ten higher education and research institutions (IESR) to high-speed Internet.

The Burkinabe government wants to accelerate digital transformation and make it a pillar of socio-economic development. The project was created financé by the Banque mondiale and carried out with the technical assistance of the mobile telephone operator Orange Burkina Faso. é According to Nafy Silu é Coulibaly, director gn é Arale dOrange ' , “the support consisted in putting the provision of computer equipment by the Ministry responsible for Higher Education. These are wifi equipment that is put into the nine IESRs. We also worked to connect the various buildings with very high speed [174 in total, editor's note] through fiber connectivity, not to mention the training of 29 engineers who will ensure the follow-up and maintenance of the entire device for the sustainability of the project Bookman