Enabel, SES Connect Foreign Aid Projects in Africa

&NewLine;<p>The Belgian development agency Enabel and SES&comma; a leader in global content connectivity solutions&comma; will deliver satellite-based communications for the development and foreign aid projects spearheaded by the Belgian and other European governments&period; Under the multi-year framework contract awarded following a public tender&comma; SES will bring managed end-to-end connectivity infrastructure and services to over 130 sites to support Enabel and development projects in 20 countries across Africa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Against the&NewLine;backdrop that the Continet boasts of &nbsp&semi;an&NewLine;estimated &nbsp&semi;population of more than&NewLine;1&period;3 billion&comma; infrastructure and connectivity continue to be key focus areas in&NewLine;Africa&comma; specifically in vast remote locations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to a statement made available to OpenLife&comma; Nicole Robinson&comma; Senior Vice President of Global Government at SES Networks stated that the end-to-end connectivity solution delivered by SES will be supporting Enabel in its goal of providing partners with the right digital solutions and latest technologies&period; The connectivity will power Enabel’s projects and activities&comma; further reinforcing the agency’s commitment to the &OpenCurlyQuote;Digital for Development Policy &lpar;D4D&rpar; of the Belgian Development Cooperation and of the European Commission&comma; the Principles for Digital Development and the UN Sustainable Goals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As part of the solution&comma; SES will provide antennae&comma;&NewLine;installation&comma; satellite bandwidth and end-to-end services to allow Enabel and&NewLine;its partners to upgrade the skills of African professionals&comma; elevate the&NewLine;healthcare system and improve the people’s living conditions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At Enabel&comma; we believe that digitalisation and the&NewLine;benefits it brings serve as a catalyst for development&period; Access to&NewLine;high-bandwidth connectivity is essential for our projects in remote locations&NewLine;as it allows us to deploy critically important tools&period; We are delighted to find&NewLine;in SES a reliable partner who shares these values and has the right expertise&comma;”&NewLine;said Jean Van Wetter&comma; Managing Director of Enabel&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;SES’s ability to quickly&NewLine;deploy a high-performance communications infrastructure and service&comma; and their&NewLine;track record of working with governments around the world&comma; make them the best&NewLine;fitting partner to support the nations in achieving Sustainable Development&NewLine;Goals&period;”<br>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Many countries in Africa are characterised by vast or landlocked territories&comma;&NewLine;making it difficult to deploy extensive terrestrial communications&NewLine;infrastructure&comma;” said Nicole Robinson&comma; Senior Vice President of Global&NewLine;Government at SES Networks&comma; the data-centric business unit of SES&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are&NewLine;incredibly proud and humbled to provide Enabel with connectivity so that&NewLine;training programmes and various critical applications can be deployed&comma; and&NewLine;quality of life in remote locations can be improved&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;