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to embed any Miro board directly inside of visually so their ideas can be understood, management experiences that will enable
your Webex project space for everything improved, and acted on faster. Combined more seamless Webex collaboration and
from ideation and workshopping to with Webex video technology, MURAL communication for users.”
product planning and design without ever helps teams activate imagination together, Workplace from Facebook: Workplace
leaving your meeting. no matter where they are." and Cisco are coming together to
Andrey Khusid, Miro CEO and Founder, Salesforce: Bringing Webex and Salesforce improve employee communications
Miro: “Now more than ever, it’s critical for together can make sales activities and for all organizations, particularly those
enterprise teams to have swift access motions 10x better and help drive quotes with frontline employees and distributed
to tools that boost engagement and to cash. Within Salesforce, your Webex teams split between working in-office
creativity. The seamless integration meetings, messages and calls will be and from home. Now, joint customers can
between Miro and Cisco's Webex gives associated with Leads and Opportunities. broadcast Webex video live to Workplace
meeting participants the collaborative These custom Webex objects will and users will also be able to interact
superpowers they need.” be delivered through the Salesforce (like, comment, react, ask questions, use
MURAL: Offering an enhanced layer of AppExchange. polls, etc.) during Webex broadcasts, for
engagement to video meetings from ServiceNow: Our integration with real-time engagement. Upcoming product
within Webex, MURAL helps distributed ServiceNow incident management means experiences will include being able to
teams share, think, and solve problems Webex actions related to Meetings, use Workplace with Webex hardware,
together through visual collaboration. Calling and Messaging become “in agent” and Workplace live engagement features
The integrated solution will give every workflows, eliminating manual repetitive being brought into the Webex experience.
team member a voice and makes remote tasks and context switching. Additionally, we have announced a
planning, Agile ceremonies, design Chirantan “CJ” Desai, Chief Product combined offer: Webex customers who are
sprints, brainstorming sessions, and client Officer, ServiceNow: “Organizations are new to Workplace will receive six months'
collaboration more productive and fun. continuing to seek digital tools that access to Workplace Advanced at no cost.
Mariano Suarez-Battan, co-founder enable seamless experiences for their Workplace customers who are new to
and CEO, MURAL: "The world's largest employees and customers in the COVID Webex will receive special discounts off
enterprise companies look to MURAL economy. ServiceNow is pleased to be Webex software and hardware devices (all
to help teams collaborate securely and working with Cisco to provide incident offers subject to limitations).

Eutelsat’s Konnect to Provide Connectivity Services

to the Post Office Network in Côte d’Ivoire

Eutelsat Communications’ konnect has such as ‘La Poste’ in expanding the scope services to populations living in white
signed a framework agreement with its of its universal service mission. This areas. Reliable and affordable broadband
distribution partner InterSat to provide agreement is the perfect example of how access has now become a reality.” Isaac
connectivity services to the Post Office in konnect can help both public and private Gnamba Yao, CEO of La Poste, Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire. The multi-year agreement entities in Africa to bridge the digital added: “In addition to its statutory mission
will enable the connection of circa 170 divide in rural areas. Already providing of providing a Universal Postal Service
post offices throughout the country. connectivity to schools, clinics and health for the transport of mail and other related
Furthermore, all 170 post offices will be centers in several countries, konnect is services, the Post Office in Côte d'Ivoire has
equipped with konnect Wifi hotspots in re-defining connectivity expectations for now added the task of facilitating access
white zones, enabling the Post Office people who live and work beyond reach of to the Internet for rural populations. To
to offer broadband solutions to its local terrestrial networks.” Jeoffrey Woods, CEO achieve this, it has partnered with konnect
customers. In the future, its scope could of InterSat stated: “We are very proud to and InterSat by signing a memorandum
be expanded to 3,000 parcel-points work together with the Post Office of Côte of understanding on 22 December 2020.
(‘Point Relais’) throughout the country. d'Ivoire. This framework project comes The agreement, which forms part of a
Leveraging the recently operational in response to the desire of the Ivorian public-private partnership, is one more
EUTELSAT KONNECT high-throughput government, particularly with the support step by the Post Office in Côte d'Ivoire
satellite, the roll-out of the service will start of the Post Office of Côte d'Ivoire, to deliver towards the achievement of its ambition
in January 2021 over a six-month period. high quality digital services throughout the to become the "Maison du Citoyen et des
Commenting on the agreement, Philippe country to meet the operational needs of Entreprises, Coursier de l'Etat (House of
Baudrier, CEO of Konnect Africa said: “We its 170 postal offices, but also to ensure Citizens and Businesses, State Courier
are privileged to support an institution the continued roll-out of ubiquitous [free translation])".

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