{"id":26875,"date":"2014-09-30T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=26875"},"modified":"2014-09-30T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:38:37","slug":"frances-leading-ecommerce-site-launches-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/09\/frances-leading-ecommerce-site-launches-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s leading eCommerce site launches in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/Screenshot-2014-09-30-09.32.07.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-09-30 09.32.07\" width=\"1452\" height=\"622\" \/>I&#8217;ve long argued that there is a huge\u00a0opportunity for French tech companies to look south to the African market. French is\u00a0among the predominant languages across the continent &#8211; which is why, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2013\/dec\/05\/david-cameron-ditch-french-learn-mandarin-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British students are ditching French<\/a>\u00a0for Chinese, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/careers\/business-education\/china-eager-for-students-to-learn-french\/article4101946\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China is encouraging it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, cDiscount, one of France&#8217;s top eCommerce players, announced the launch of cDisount.sn in Senegal, meaning that Sengalese internet users would have access to cDiscount&#8217;s 80,000+ products, purchasable via mobile payment, cash on delivery or cash at pickup point. In order to complete delivery, cDiscount has partnered with Bollor\u00e9 Africa Logistics, a company which does exactly what you think.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of eCommerce growth, Africa is currently the place to be. <a title=\"Orange reinvents money in Africa via Mobile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2013\/07\/15\/orange-money-mobile\/\">Orange is pushing its mobile payments technology<\/a>, <a title=\"Rocket Internet continues their eCommerce domination \u2013 JUMIA launches in the Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2013\/06\/27\/rocket-internet-eworld-domination\/\">Rocket Internet runs some of the continent&#8217;s largest eCommerce players<\/a>, and eCommerce conferences in Africa are heating up. The\u00a0digitally neglected African continent is catching up, fast, via low-cost mobile internet and long-awaited high-speed internet. In addition, China\u00a0has continued to invest in (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/brookings-now\/posts\/2014\/05\/8-facts-about-china-investment-in-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">or exploit, depending on who you ask<\/a>) Africa&#8217;s infrastructure, meaning Africa has never been more connected, more accessible, and more ripe for innovation than today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long argued that there is a huge\u00a0opportunity for French tech companies to look south to the African market. French is\u00a0among the predominant languages across the continent &#8211; which is why, while British students are ditching French\u00a0for Chinese, China is encouraging it. Earlier this month, cDiscount, one of France&#8217;s top eCommerce players, announced the launch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":26939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}