Data for Development Senegal is an innovation challenge open on ICT Big Data for the purposes of societal development.
In 2013, Sonatel and the Orange Group are making anonymous data, extracted from the mobile network in Senegal, available to international research laboratories, as well as data on hours of sunshine.
The first objective of the Data For Development Senegal Challenge, under the patronage of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, in relation to the Sonatel and Orange policy in favour of development, is to contribute to the development and welfare of the populations.
For this purpose, 5 priority subject matters have been defined, for which the requirements have been expressed in collaboration with the responsible Ministries or the partner institutions:

• health
• agriculture
• transport/urban planning
• energy
• national statistics

The challenge also wishes to contribute to a more technical objective, by rewarding the best advances in the algorithms of anonymisation, datamining, display and cross-referencing of data.
Finally, the intention of the organisers of the Challenge is to achieve maximum involvement from local and regional stakeholders from the world of academic and applied research, in order to guarantee benefits in education and economic development, in particular the ecosystem of local companies and start-ups.
The project ran from April 2014 to April 2015, the date on which the ‘D4D Committee’, composed of members of the Universities and Institutions supporting the initiative, chose the best projects.

Below is the presentation of the project by Renato Casagrandi at the Meet Me Tonight 2015:

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