About
Born of an idea and a shared need.
Two companies in the same group were looking for the same thing, for different customers. They joined their teams to design, build and deliver Oworks.
VEONE’s need
Equipping public administrations and governments
A sovereign collaborative suite, installed on the state’s own premises, able to serve all of its ministries.
Cloud4Africa’s need
An online offering to take on Microsoft 365
A complete suite, offered online and through telecom operators, to compete with Microsoft 365 at last.
The shared answer
Oworks
One suite, designed and built together: installed on the state’s premises by VEONE, offered online and with the operators by Cloud4Africa.
Both companies started from the same foundation: fifteen years spent hosting, operating and developing email for African public administrations and businesses. Every single choice in Oworks comes from that work.
They trusted us with their email.
These organizations don’t use Oworks: they entrusted us with deploying and maintaining their email, on the technology of their choice. It’s that experience, across every one of the major open source solutions, that shaped Oworks.
| Organization | Technology | Our role |
|---|---|---|
| CNPS, Ivory Coast | BlueMind | Setup, maintenance, enhancements and customization |
| Ivorian Customs | Zimbra | Deployment |
| ANINF, Gabon | Zimbra Network Edition | Deployment and support |
| Cloud4Africa and its operators | Zimbra, then Carbonio for three years | Online operation for more than 1,000 organizations |
Why Oworks
Europe built its sovereign suites. Africa deserved its own.
France built La Suite numérique for its staff, Germany openDesk for its administration. Both rest on open source, and both are designed for their own institutions.
African public administrations, for their part, had only a choice between foreign suites and open source components to assemble on their own. We wanted to give them the same thing Europe gave itself: a complete, open suite, installed on their premises and supported locally.
State data hosted off the continent
Subject to foreign laws, accessible to other jurisdictions, and dependent on a vendor that can cut off the service.
Licenses paid in foreign currency
Prices set elsewhere, which change without negotiation and weigh on public budgets year after year.
Tools that can be neither audited nor adapted
Closed code, a roadmap decided for other markets, support several time zones away.
Who’s behind Oworks
An Ivorian group, two complementary businesses.
Oworks belongs to the VEONE group. It is designed by VEONE and made available online by its subsidiary Cloud4Africa.
A software services and integration company founded in Abidjan in 2010. Since 2021 it has brought together VEONE, VEONE Digital and Cloud4Africa within the VEONE Group. VEONE designs and develops Oworks, installs it for governments and large accounts, and provides level 3 support.
- 2010Founded in Abidjan
- 100+employees
- 7 countriesin Africa and Europe
- Memberof the National Champions of Ivory Coast
- Design, R&D and enhancements
- Direct sales to governments and large accounts
- On-premises integration and migration
The group’s cloud subsidiary
Cloud4Africa invests in the data center infrastructure of its partner telecom operators and offers a catalog of ready-to-sell services there.
- 1,000+organizations served
- Oworks online for businesses
- White-label partnerships with operators
- Platform operation
From email to Oworks.
- 2011
Our first business email systems, operated from Abidjan.
- 2014
A sovereign cloud in West Africa: our customers’ email hosted on the continent. It is named “Digital Company of the Year” in 2015.
- Next
Cloud4Africa offers email online and in white label with telecom operators, on Zimbra from the start, then three years on Carbonio. More than 1,000 organizations will use it.
- Our references
CNPS entrusts us with its BlueMind email: setup, then maintenance, enhancements and customization, through to today.
- Our references
We deploy the Zimbra email of Ivorian Customs.
- Our references
In Gabon, we deploy and support ANINF’s Zimbra email.
- 2026
VEONE and Cloud4Africa bring their teams together: email becomes a suite, with single identity, meetings, chat, files and documents, built on leading open source components.
- 2026
Cloud4Africa moves all of its online email over to this new platform.
November 2026The platform becomes Oworks, a brand in its own right.
What guides our choices.
- OpenOpen source components and standards, so that our customers never depend on us alone.01
- SovereignData stays where its owner decided, under their own law.02
- Close byEngineers on the continent, who know public administrations and answer in their language.03
- LastingA suite kept up to date and secure over time, and skills passed on to our customers’ teams.04
Contact us.
Governments and large accounts
VEONE · Abidjan
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Cloud4Africa
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