Telecom network operator Telenor has revealed the names of winners of its employee innovation program.
Telenor has selected eight digital product and service ideas from its employee innovation initiative Ignite, for a three-month incubator program to build internal startups.
“With the Ignite program, we encourage employees to come forward with their ideas for engaging, mass market digital products with the potential of global success,” said Sigve Brekke, president and CEO of Telenor Group.
The winning ideas:
TapTutor – a smart and digital tutor for supporting mass market agents selling complex products and services, through augmented pictures and video
Rejuv – Uberizing the wellness industry to ensure trust and consistence in service quality of SPAs at the customer’s preferred place and time
Dealstogo – An online platform to help movie theatres fill their empty seats by offering customers amazing deals in real time
Alfred – a service to remove the hassle of dealing with your apartment’s management office, by digitizing how you pay your monthly service charges, check in guests, book facilities, lodge complaints and receive resident information
ShowPoint – mobile loyalty app with promotions, rewards and privileges from local merchants
Telco Open Data – platform for anonymized big data to enable new service opportunities, such as customer patterns and traffic movement and monitoring in real time
Mutual – a third-party system to verify identities for trusted personal and business transactions and interactions online
Switch – a service to make it quick and hassle-free to switch phones and transfer content such as calendar, photos and contacts, between any type of mobile, regardless of type and OS
Telenor shortlisted 30 teams representing 80 employees from ten countries from more than 500 applications for offering for a place in the incubator at an event in Bangkok last week.
The 8 winning teams will join incubators located at dtac Hangar in Bangkok, Thailand, Startup lab in Oslo, Norway or Grameenphone Accelerator in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to develop their ideas into testable prototypes from September. Their day jobs will be kept open and they will receive normal salary during the three month period.
Telenor will give resources to develop into a product to impact the societies to successful pilots following the incubator period.
