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13 Mar 2012

Last week, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)  announced a new LPI certification and training project throughout the 22 countries in the League of Arab States.

This is certainly good news for ICT capacity building in general and even more interesting for the community of ict@innovation, which has been building training capacities around Linux Administration in Africa since 4 years. It looks like there is a lot to share between the pan-African community of 200+ Linux Admin trainers of ict@innovation and the new Linux training partnership in the Arab world. According to the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), which is partnering with ITU in the Arab region, the new programme aims at establishing 132 Linux “Train the trainer” centers on all three levels of Linux professional Institute Certification.

More information on ict@innovations’ African Linux training community: http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/blp

More information on the initiative of ITU and LPI in the Arab world:
http://academy.itu.int/news/item/679/

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Posted by Balthas Seibold

28 Jul 2011

Today, we have published this summer issue of the ict4d Newsletter, including:

Take a look!

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Posted by Benjamin Barutzki

29 Apr 2011

We have recently published the new issue of the ict4d-Newsletter, including:

Enjoy!

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Posted by Benjamin Barutzki

22 Mar 2011

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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Posted by Balthas Seibold

26 Jan 2011

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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Posted by Balthas Seibold

11 Nov 2010

Jon “maddog” Hall, the international open source expert and elder statesman of the programming community, just published a comprehensive piece on IT / open source training and Linux certification in Africa. The blog entry on the LPI site talks about the Linux Admin certification programme of  ict@innovation.
Source: Picture by "Flyhighplato" on Wikipedia.orgict@innovation is a partnership between FOSSFA (Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa) and InWEnt – Capacity Building International (Germany) and is funded by  the German Ministry Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA).
For more, see Johns blog titled “Open Source Lights Up Darkest Africa“.  Thanks, Jon!

Photo by ”Flyhighplato” on Wikipedia.org, see cc licence there.

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Posted by Balthas Seibold

06 Sep 2008

Talking about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), did you know that the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) actually uses a Debian-based operating system on its 11.000 computers world-wide? All embassies are connected via a secured intranet and MS-Windows only runs on those systems within a virtual software environment to provide MS-Office functionality to those documents the OpenOffice suite still has problems* with. [Read more →]

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Posted by Juergen Eichholz