DigiClub spécial MWC 2024 (Ep4): le futur de la Poste tunisienne et l'initiative de l'IUT sur l'IA

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The Tunisian Post CEO announces 106 million dinar profits and hints at a major virtual marketplace partnership.

The episode is a special DigiClub coverage of the Mobile World Congress 2024, recorded live from Barcelona. It features two main interviews conducted in French. The first guest is Sissémi El Maki, CEO of Tunisian Post and head of Tunisia's official delegation to the MWC. He discusses the Post's financial turnaround, achieving 106 million dinars in profit recently. El Maki reveals that 85% of the Post's activity is now financial, a shift from 60% two decades ago. He outlines a strategic plan with four axes, including supporting current services and developing e-commerce. Specifically, the Post plans to launch its own virtual marketplace by the end of 2024 in partnership with an unnamed foreign giant. He also mentions building a new data center in 2024 and addresses the possibility of transforming into a postal bank, noting that a file has been submitted to the President of the Republic. The second guest is Sybillel Jammoussi, Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Standardization Bureau at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). She discusses the global disparity in 5G deployment, highlighting that 2.4 billion people remain unconnected. Jammoussi explains challenges like spectrum allocation and business cases for 5G. She talks about the ITU's Bridging the Standards Gap program and recent World Radio Conference in Dubai. The conversation shifts to artificial intelligence, where she mentions the AI for Good summit in Geneva and projects with WHO, WMO, and FAO using AI for health, disaster management, and agriculture. She also touches on 6G standardization, emphasizing the integration of satellite and terrestrial networks. The episode concludes with her identifying data and AI as key future technologies.

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