Orange Business’ Post

We’re thrilled to expand our strategic partnership with Custodia, bringing their CC1-regulated digital data management services to customers across the Middle East and Africa. Building on our global collaboration, Orange Business and Custodia are now joining forces regionally to deliver end-to-end, compliant digital communication and data cloud services, helping organizations in finance, energy, and manufacturing manage regulated data with confidence. Together, Orange Business and Custodia combine strengths in #Data, #AI, and #Cyberdefense to empower organizations—especially in regulated sectors like finance, energy, and manufacturing—to stay secure, compliant, and future-ready. 📍Meet us at GITEX Global, Hall 4 – Stand A20, and discover how we’re transforming trusted, regulated communication for the digital era.

APIs are a hot topic in telco at the moment. Last week, I had the pleasure of running a briefing with Johanna Wood from Vodafone who presented the company's API strategy to industry analysts. Over 70 experts from firms including Gartner, IDC, Omdia, GlobalData, GSMA, TMForum, Analysys Mason, STL Partners, ABI Research, PAC, Ampere, CCS Insight, HyperFRAME and S&P as well as high-profile individuals including Leif-Olof Wallin Chris Lewis Paolo Pescatore signed up to learn about Vodafone's progress to date and its future plans. Based on the feedback so far, Johanna delivered, leaving analysts with no doubts about what Vodafone is doing in this space - and why.

How can we ensure trustworthy data flows across borders and sectors? 🌐 These questions — and many more — will be at the heart of the EU-Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT Standardisation. Hear directly from our speakers 👇 🗣️ “ETSI TC DATA is committed to providing open and secure distributed data solutions, with the goal of enabling next-generation trustworthy information exchanges. This covers a full range of data-driven applications, from #sensors and #actuators in #IoT-based environments to collaborating AI agent frameworks. Our goal is to facilitate the interoperability and reliability of data sources, data processors, and data consumers in any applications scenario, fostering innovation across public and private sectors” — Diego R. Lopez, Chair of #ETSI TC DATA, Senior Technology Expert Telefónica 🇪🇺 🤝 🇨🇦 EU-Canada Week on ICT #Standardisation 🗓️ 14–16 October 2025 | 💻 Online 💡 Co-organised by #INSTAR & Digital Governance Council | Conseil de gouvernance numérique, with the support of the European Commission, EU Delegation in Canada. REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/ebJ2dXz9

📌  LIVE | #INSTAR #EU-Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT #Standardisation Digital Governance Council | Conseil de gouvernance numérique 🎙️ Daniel Alonso Román BDVA - Big Data Value Association will highlight how European and international collaborations are advancing trusted, interoperable data ecosystems. 💡The Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) works to connect regulations, standards, and real-world implementation. On one side, there is a growing need for domain-specific standards and technologies; on the other, a complex landscape of existing regulations and standardisation requests. The DSSC provides input to both policymakers and SDOs, building on assets such as the Data Spaces Blueprint.

📌  LIVE | #INSTAR #EU-Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT #Standardisation Digital Governance Council | Conseil de gouvernance numérique 🎙️ Fabiana Da Pieve European Commission 💡Quantum technologies are strategic assets that shape Europe’s digital sovereignty, security, and competitiveness. Their full potential can only be realised through strong international collaboration, turning breakthroughs into real-world impact. To make this possible, standardisation provides the common ground where innovation builds trust and Europe’s quantum technologies can scale, interoperate, and lead globally.

#MWC25 taking place in Kigali will bring together leaders from across Africa and around the world to explore how AI, fintech, and next-generation connectivity are accelerating the continent’s digital transformation. Here’s what to look forward to: ➡️ Top speakers from the International Telecommunication Union, Ministry of ICT & Innovation, Rwanda, airtel, AXIAN Group, Amini, Huawei, MTN, Orange, ZTE Corporation, and more. ➡️ Exciting new addititions like the GSMA Ministerial Programme ➡️ Dedicated summits on Fintech, 5G, and Security. ➡️ A vibrant show floor featuring exhibitors such as Ericsson, TerraPay, Ookla, NETSCOUT, Detecon, PXS, FraudBuster, and others joining previously announced participants. Read our latest press release for full details: 👉 https://gsma.at/Qb

📌  LIVE | #INSTAR #EU-Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT #Standardisation Digital Governance Council | Conseil de gouvernance numérique 🎙️ Sebastian Steinbuß CEN and CENELEC JTC25 will share how European standardisation efforts are driving trust, interoperability and innovation across industries, and how these best practices can inspire transatlantic cooperation. 💡Trusted data transactions involve several key roles: data providers, data users, data holders, and data producers. The data provider needs permission from the data holder before sharing any information. What we exchange isn’t just the data itself, the data product also includes metadata such as catalogue details, usage terms, and licensing rights. Each interaction between these parties must meet specific trustworthiness requirements to ensure transparency and reliability.

Had a good chat with the CID team team, and it's clear they've put in a huge effort to set up a robust framework and value chain that gets the most out of the often-overlooked but critical enabler: Spectrum! https://lnkd.in/g_7kX4jF

World Bank Said It. Now Caribbean Telcos Need to Prove It. The World Bank has made it clear that operators who lean into customer experience and digital innovation are the ones winning. Broadband has jumped from about 30 percent a decade ago to more than 75 percent today. Data is cheaper, usage is climbing and expectations are rising fast. At the same time, investments in fibre, cloud and digital skills are reshaping the region, creating new demand for advanced services and pushing telcos to step up. Telcos are at the centre of this ecosystem, but only if they stop treating digital as side projects and start making customer experience the commercial engine. We all know that with a commercial hat on there is always one nugget of opportunity sitting inside a product where we have grown too comfortable. AI, cloud and data are no longer experiments, they are the baseline. Digital intent without commercial impact is just noise. The winner will prove it. #CaribbeanTelco #DigitalisCX #DigitalWinning #868Leadership #TrueWestConsulting #WesternAndSons

📌  LIVE | #INSTAR #EU-Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT #Standardisation Digital Governance Council | Conseil de gouvernance numérique 🎙️ Coen Janssen European Commission taking the floor to explore how trust, interoperability and governance can enable seamless and secure data exchange across borders. 💡Data spaces are designed to boost data sharing, but there isn’t just one single data space for Europe. Each domain has its own needs, use cases, data quality criteria, and access mechanisms. For example, how we manage health data is very different from how we handle mobility data. To ensure these diverse spaces can still work together, the European Commission has asked for standards to be developed that demonstrate compliance with Article 33 of the Data Act, focusing on interoperability within and across data spaces.