"We have also learned of the large-scale collaboration with telecom giants, Internet companies and service providers," the actor Wil Wheaton (who played Wesley Crusher in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and is a popular figure in tech circles) tells viewers as a shot of the now infamous Prism PowerPoint slide, listing Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other companies, comes into focus.
The robot was created by French outfit Aldebaran in collaboration with Telecoms giant Softbank.
The documents show the level of collaboration between the telecom companies and the surveillance agencies.
Governance modes include internal development by the telecom operator, several forms of collaboration between telecom operator and service firm, and only providing a network by the telecom operator to the service firm, which then develops and provides its services (external).
A collaboration with the telecoms company Airtel has led to the creation of an mobile text message system that communicates messages about Ebola prevention and response.
This collaboration follows the partnership between the French Committee for UNICEF and France Telecom and Orange Frence initiated in 2004 which has since helped achieve water points and latrine blocks in 20 boys and girls segregated schools in the Mopti Region (2005 200707).
In its announcement, Samsung said it "will be exploring potential collaborations in the mobile payment space" with Singtel, Singapore's largest telecom.
Changamka, in collaboration with one of Kenya's largest insurance companies British American Insurance and telecom provider Safaricom, launched a micro-insurance scheme called Lindi Jamii in November last year.
AT&T at the time was loosely allied with another group of telecoms under the World Partners umbrella, but this setup was criticized for being a marketing collaboration rather than a well-integrated international partnership.
"Collaboration is the first step to business digitization and BroadSoft has partnerships with over 450 telecom carriers in 80 countries — including 25 of the top 30 globally — to 19+ million BroadSoft business subscribers.
