News - CityTaps

Social Impact Update: 2019
Three years after the CityTaps pilot began in Niamey, we continue to evaluate our social impact. Read the update here to learn more about our project and the potential for impact.
VivaStory: CityTaps + Orange
CityTaps was featured in the Orange Lab during the VivaTech event in Paris. Click here to watch our VivaStory and here to read more.
CityTaps Designated Global Urban Innovator
The New Cities Foundation honored CityTaps with the Global Urban Innovators Award! Read our article entitled, How the Internet of Things is Turning on the Tap in More Urban Homes , written by CityTaps founder, Grégoire Landel.
Social Impact Report Available
Our first social impact report, detailing the results of surveys and interviews conducted during our pilot project in Niamey, is available here.
GSMA M4D Grantee
CityTaps' project in Niger is supported in part by the GSMA Mobile4Development Fund. Click here to learn about how mobile technologies are improving access to water and sanitation in emerging markets.
CityTaps in the Press
Click on the links below to read more about our work and the impact of our solution.
May 2021: CityTaps veut que tous les urbains des pays en développement accèdent à l'eau courante à domicile, La Tribune
May 2021: CityTaps veut répondre au défi de l'eau courante pour tous, Les Echos
May 2021: Smart Meters: Innovating to improve water supply in a post-COVID context, The Journal of Field Actions
March 2021: How COVID has accentuated the need for us to bring running water to every urban home, Startup-info Magazine
February 2021: Scaling digital solutions in the water sector through prepaid smart metering and mobile money, Business Call to Action
February 2021: Scaling Digital Water Tech - 4 Lessons from 2 Start-Ups, Aqua Tech Trade
January 2021: CityTaps named as one of the top Fintech companies in France in the Daily Finance
December 2020: Connected tap for running water, a development by CityTaps and V3 Smart Technologies (BPIfrance and Enterprise Singapore)
December 3, 2020: Scaling Digital Solutions in the Water Sector – Lessons from CityTaps and Wonderkid
September 9, 2020: CityTaps: When IoT empowers people with a fundamental human need - access to water (Saft Batteries)
September 2, 2020: Cinq start-up qui allient écologie et technologie (Les Echos et Enerdis)
May 2020: Global Innovation Fund Impact Report
April 14, 2020: Au Niger, CityTaps révolutionne l'accès à l'eau courante avec des compteurs intelligents prépayés (Portail FinDev)
April 3, 2020: CityTaps: Delivering safe water to the urban poor through prepaid smart metering and mobile money (GSMA)
March 10 2020: Digital Solutions for the Urban Poor (GSMA)
March 2020: CityTaps is welcomed into the P4G Family within the IW+ consortium (with Aqua for All, Untapped Kenya, WASPA Kenya and Waterpreneurs Association) to further #SDG6
February 2020: Smart Water Solutions Podcast: Prepaid Potable Water with Grégoire Landel (Apple Podcasts)
October 30 2019: Solutions Innovantes pour la ville durable en Afrique : les résultats de l'appel à projets (Direction Générale de Trésor)
August 23, 2019: Mobile for Development Utilities Perspective - Our Quarterly Insights - Issue 1 (GSMA)
April 25, 2019: WINNERS OF DEEPTECH4GOOD #B ARCELONA
March 13, 2019: Here are the 20 startups selected for the World Bank’s L’Afrique Excelle accelerator (ventureburn.com)
March 12, 2019: 20 des meilleures start-ups technologiques d’Afrique francophone intègrent le programme d’accélération initié par le Groupe de la Banque mondiale(africanews.fr)
February 15, 2019: Winter 2018/19 Niger Social Impact Update
February 3, 2019: Niger : des compteurs d'eau prépayés et connectés (linfodurable.fr)
January 18, 2019: Mobile Money Transaction Fees and Utility Bill Payments in Emerging Markets (GSMA.com)
December 12, 2018: Sabesp anuncia os projetos inovadores que ganharam o concurso “Pitch Sabesp”(site.sabesp.com.br)
December 6, 2018 : CityTaps lève 1M euros et signe avec Veolia Africa pour de l'eau en prépaiement (afrik21.africa)
October 29, 2018: Access to Water and Sanitation in Emerging Markets - the Impact of Mobile Technology (GSMA.com)
October 22, 2018: Niger - compteurs intelligents : pour un meilleur accès à l'eau (med1tv.ma)
August 29, 2018: La escasez de agua, une nueva normalidad (elpaís.com)
August 23, 2018: Gilles Babinet : "La technologie crée un nouveau rapport à l'Afrique" (cio-mag.com)
July 16, 2018: CityTaps mise sur des compteurs connectés et le micropaiement pour favoriser l'accès à l'eau courante (sekou.org)
July 4, 2018: Label entreprise du jour - CityTaps (europe1.fr)
June 30, 2018: Citytaps, une startup au service du citoyen au Niger (algeriaentreprise.com)
June 28, 2018: A Social Innovation Tour Of West Africa (techcabal.com)
June 28, 2018: Niger : une startup installe 1325 compteurs d'eau intelligents gérés par micropaiement (latribune.com)
June 26, 2018: Making a splash: Five ‘waterpreneurs’ bringing tech to water (compelo.com)
June 20, 2018: CityTaps : l'eau pour le développement (constructioncayola.com)

June 18, 2018: CityTaps lance une levée de fonds pour faciliter l’accès à l’eau courante à domicile (lactionneur.com)
May 28, 2018: VivaTechnology 2018 : l'IA et l'IOT avaient une place de choix (objetconnecte.com)
May 23, 2018: CityTaps et Orange Money : faciliter l'accès à l'eau potable au Niger (business.lesechos.fr)
May 23, 2018: Wanted: Entrepreneurs to tackle urban drinking water challenges (greenbiz.com)
May 22, 2018: VivaTech à Paris, focus Afrique (info-afrique.com)
April 11, 2018: CityTaps vise un accès universel à l'eau... à l'aide d'un téléphone mobile (mediatico.fr)
February 26, 2018: Fish Pro Bono Client Meets Initial Milestone to Provide Access to Safe Water in Niger (fr.com)
February 14, 2018: Bringing Water to Every Urban Home with the Power of Mobile (GSMA.com)
February 14, 2018: L'Afrique au coeur des thématiques du prochain VivaTech (LesEchos.fr)
January 18, 2018: The Urban Water Crisis (TheWorldWeekly.com)
January 12, 2018: Will Cape Town be the first city to run out of water? (BBC.com)
January 5, 2018: The Top Five Water Stories in 2017 (TheWaterNetwork.com)
January 4, 2018: L'Afrique, terre d'innovation (Fabernovel.com)
December 26, 2017: L'eau potable dans les pays du Sud : comment faire baisser la facture ? (Rfi.fr)
November 14, 2017: African Startups Win M4D Utilities Innovation Funding (disrupt-africa.com)
November 14, 2017: Orange Social Entrepreneur Prize winners announced (Disrupt-Africa.com)
November 9, 2017: 7ème édition du Prix Orange de l’Entrepreneur Social en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient, Palmarès 2017 (ZoneBourse.com)
November 1, 2017: MIT SOLVE Pitch Video: Running Water in Every Urban Home (Solve.MIT.edu)
September 10, 2017: Social Impact Report
June 29, 2017: How a New Prepayment System is Connecting Piped Water to the Urban Poor (Cities-Today.com)
June 19, 2017: VivaTech #PositiveImpact - CityTaps, le compteur d'eau prépayé qui apporte de l'eau à tous les foyers urbains (sparknews.com)
June 15, 2017: Prépayer son eau potable avec son beau portable (Soonsoonsoon.com)
June 13, 2017: Positive Impact Challenge : 4 start-up qui mettent la technologie au service du positif (E-RSE.net)
June 6, 2017: A startup that wants running water in every urban home (Citiscope.org)
May 31, 2017: Can Digital Finance 'Irrigate' The Water Industry? (Modato.com)
May 26, 2017: Les Innovations 2017 de STMicroelectronics font leur show (LeMondeInformatique.fr)
May 9, 2017: #Accompagnement : 5 startups à la découverte des écosystèmes innovants d'Afrique du sud et de Côte d'Ivoire (Maddyness.com)
May 5, 2017: Here are eight startups developing technological solutions to global urban problems (CityMetric.com)
April 15, 2017: Cinq innovations qui vont changer notre rapport à l'eau (ObjetConnecte.net)
April 12, 2017: CityTaps : un compteur d'eau intelligent (Entreprendre.fr)
January 18, 2017: #TechForGood : Pour distribuer l'eau dans le monde entier, CityTaps mise sur l'IoT et une équipe de choc (Maddyness.com)
January 18, 2017: Digital Africa - CityTaps (afd.fr)
January 13, 2017: Bamako : dix start-up primées en marge du sommet Afrique – France (JeuneAfrique.com)
September 30, 2016: CityTaps compte écouler 1,2 million de ses compteurs communicants...par an (Journaldunet.com)
July 6, 2016: i-LAB 2016 -Les 5 Grands prix : Grégoire LANDEL - CITYTAPS (orange.fr)
July 6, 2016: 56 lauréats et 5 grands prix pour le concours i-LAB 2016 (bpifrance.fr)
December 13, 2015: CityTaps remporte un prix de $500.000 auprès de Verizon (Aruco.com)
December 11, 2015: #EnBref : Tout ce qu’Emmanuel Macron devrait savoir aujourd’hui sur Lengow, Ouiville et CityTaps (Maddyness.com)
November 4, 2015: Powerful Answers Award announces 12 winners vying for three $1,000,000 prizes (verizon.com)

Social Impact Update: 2019

Three years after the CityTaps pilot began in Niamey, we continue to evaluate our social impact. Read the update here to learn more about our project and the potential for impact.

VivaStory: CityTaps + Orange

CityTaps was featured in the Orange Lab during the VivaTech event in Paris. Click here to watch our VivaStory and here to read more.

CityTaps Designated Global Urban Innovator

The New Cities Foundation honored CityTaps with the Global Urban Innovators Award! Read our article entitled, How the Internet of Things is Turning on the Tap in More Urban Homes, written by CityTaps founder, Grégoire Landel.

Social Impact Report Available

Our first social impact report, detailing the results of surveys and interviews conducted during our pilot project in Niamey, is available here.

GSMA M4D Grantee

CityTaps' project in Niger is supported in part by the GSMA Mobile4Development Fund. Click here to learn about how mobile technologies are improving access to water and sanitation in emerging markets.

CityTaps in the Press

Click on the links below to read more about our work and the impact of our solution.

May 2021: CityTaps veut que tous les urbains des pays en développement accèdent à l'eau courante à domicile, La Tribune

May 2021: CityTaps veut répondre au défi de l'eau courante pour tous, Les Echos

May 2021: Smart Meters: Innovating to improve water supply in a post-COVID context, The Journal of Field Actions

March 2021: How COVID has accentuated the need for us to bring running water to every urban home, Startup-info Magazine

February 2021: Scaling digital solutions in the water sector through prepaid smart metering and mobile money, Business Call to Action

February 2021: Scaling Digital Water Tech - 4 Lessons from 2 Start-Ups, Aqua Tech Trade

January 2021: CityTaps named as one of the top Fintech companies in France in the Daily Finance

March 12, 2019: 20 des meilleures start-ups technologiques d’Afrique francophone intègrent le programme d’accélération initié par le Groupe de la Banque mondiale(africanews.fr)

February 14, 2018: Bringing Water to Every Urban Home with the Power of Mobile (GSMA.com)

February 14, 2018: L'Afrique au coeur des thématiques du prochain VivaTech (LesEchos.fr)

January 18, 2018: The Urban Water Crisis (TheWorldWeekly.com)

December 26, 2017: L'eau potable dans les pays du Sud : comment faire baisser la facture ? (Rfi.fr)

November 14, 2017: Orange Social Entrepreneur Prize winners announced (Disrupt-Africa.com)

November 9, 2017: 7ème édition du Prix Orange de l’Entrepreneur Social en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient, Palmarès 2017 (ZoneBourse.com)

November 1, 2017: MIT SOLVE Pitch Video: Running Water in Every Urban Home (Solve.MIT.edu)

The New Cities Foundation honored CityTaps with the Global Urban Innovators Award! Read our article entitled, How the Internet of Things is Turning on the Tap in More Urban Homes , written by CityTaps founder, Grégoire Landel.