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The Open AIR research and training project on the role of intellectual property in open development is inviting preliminary proposals for research case studies in the area of intellectual property, open innovation and collaborative creativity in Africa in cooperation with the initiative “commons@ip – Harnessing the knowledge commons for open innovation” of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The deadline for proposals is 1st April 2011.

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Trainer Trust at the second Linux Admin Training of Trainers workshop of ict@innovation The second Linux Admin Training of Trainers workshop of ict@innovation just ended in Jo-hannesburg, capacitating 18 more Linux Trainers from South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Malawi. A majority of the IT-experts got immediate proof of their skills upgrade: They passed the international certificate of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Certification (LPI 101), which enables them to spread Linux Admin Training in their countries.
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More networking of African IT specialists with Europe and joint building of advanced training materials – this is what a new partnership of GIZ’s ict@innovation programme with the Europe-wide ‘Free Technology Academy’ (FTA) is all about. ict@innovation is an African capacity building programme which supports small and medium ICT enterprises (IT-SME) to create a business model with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and aims to encourage the growth of African ICT industries.

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title page unctad report 2010Weltwirtschaft und Entwicklung: Die UN-Konferenz für Handel und Entwicklung (UNCTAD) sieht im Sektor der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IKT) neue Chancen für die Armutsbekämpfung. Ihr jüngster Bericht zur Informationsökonomie beschreibt, wie im Süden Mikrounternehmen aus dem Boden schießen, die den Boom der Mobiltelefon-Industrie anfeuern, aber auch den Armen neue Hoffnung bieten.
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Have you ever seen a business performance ranking that lists Armenia, Nigeria, Egypt, Philippines and Lithuania in the Top 5? Me neither.   Nonetheless, these countries appear to have the largest growth in people using Opera Mini, a web browser designed for mobile phones (report).  Will developing countries, poorly equipped with other Internet infrastructure, lead the way in this sector as their mobile phone market continues to grow rapidly?

Telepolis hat gerade einen interessanten Hintergrundartikel zum Thema Free and Open Source Software in Afrika online gestellt: Freie Software, freies Afrika?

Was ich zum Anlass nehme, hier als Einführung kurz ein Projekt vorzustellen, das in dem Artikel u.a. erwähnt wird: ict@innovation – Creating Business and Learning Opportunities with Free and Open Source Software in Africa – Mehr online unter  http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net - bei Interesse kann man sich auch hier registrieren. Mehr zu den InWEnt-Projekten im Bereich ICT4D ist auf http://www.inwent.org/it-inwent/ - wir freuen uns über Feedback & Anknüpfungsmöglichkeiten. Ansonsten: vielen Dank nochmals für das Öffnen des Blogs für alle DOs (siehe Post vom 12.12.2008)! Balthas, InWEnt.