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Ageroute is both an independent entity as well as the agency of Ivory Coast responsible for road maintenance and funding. Ageroute was specifically charged charged with coordinating and supervising the extension of the country’s road network and the renovation of existing roads.
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Celio Biavati, President of CAESB (Companhia de Saneamento Ambiental do Distrito Federal)
CAESB, the water company of Federal District of Brazil, is a clear example of another success story of Brazil. CAESB has managed to decrease the average water consumption in Brazil and is cooperating with few African countries since the CAESB system can be applied and fit with undeveloped and developing countries around the world.
For more than three decades—from the time of its independence in 1961 to the 1990s—Côte d’Ivoire had one of the most advanced road networks in West Africa.
Today it is West Africa’s third largest Internet market after Nigeria and Ghana. It also has a mobile phone penetration rate of 70%—one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa.
It is expected that the Gulf of Guinea will supply about a quarter of all US oil by 2015.
The major segments of Cote d’Ivoire’s industrial sector are energy, oil and gas processing, mining, and food processing. Several major factors will continue to guide industrial growth.
SOTICI (Société de Transformation Industrielle en Côte d’Ivoire), is the leading manufacturer in West Africa of PV and Polyethylene (PE) pipes, and PVC fittings. It is also one of Côte d’Ivoire’s major manufacturers and exporters.
Founded by an Ivorian entrepreneur in 1999, in twelve short years GLS Catering Services, Ltd., has expanded its operations into eight countries on three continents.
Côte d’Ivoire was one of the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain full internet connectivity. Orange owns an 85% interest in Orange Côte d’Ivoire, which began operating its network in 1996 under the Ivoiris brand, and a 45% interest in Côte d’Ivoire Telecom (CIT), Ivory Coast’s incumbent telecommunications operator, which supplies fixed-line telephone services as well as broadband and wholesale services.
