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06 Mar 2012

GIZ contributes by its programme ict@innovation to the 5th African Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons (Idlelo 5) as an integral part of the cooperation with FOSSFA and a contribution to the development of ICT in Africa. As such we will be hosting several sessions including workshops on community empowerment, African FOSS business models, a bootcamp on Linux system administration (together with Linux Professional Institute of Nigeria) as well as an award for “The Best FOSS Business Innovation in Africa”.

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Posted by Petra Hagemann

29 Apr 2011

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

Enjoy!

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Posted by Benjamin Barutzki

24 Mar 2011

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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Posted by Balthas Seibold

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

22 Nov 2010

I had the good fortune to participate in three fascinating events this month, all with overlapping themes that matter to Kabissa but taking different approaches and targeting different communities. If you were at one of these events, I’d like to invite you to check out the other ones and look for collaboration opportunities. Please also join Kabissa, add your organizations working in Africa to the Kabissa directory and introduce yourself in the groups. (crossposted from Kabissa ICT Peer Learning group) [Read more →]

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Posted by Tobias Eigen

19 Nov 2010

Yesterday, I took the opportunity of talks at the working group on “innovative business models” to do the “Berlin Launch” of our open training material “ict@innovation: Free your IT-Business in Africa!”, which showcases innovative business models in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that work in Africa. All 20 books were gone in a second, but unlimited copies are available at http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/node/4252. The handbook includes numerous successful business models suited to the African context, such as Software Selection, Software Installation, FOSS Training, Maintenance and Support, Software / Systems Migration, Consultancy, Software Localization and Internalization, FOSS Customization as well as Technical / Legal Certification. Eight in-depth case studies of successful African IT-businesses give concrete avenues for Free and Open Source business models that work in Africa.

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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

07 Jun 2010

FLOSS –  (auch) in D. scheint die Lobbyarbeit von proprietär orientierten IT-Firmen Früchte zu tragen, s. dazu den aktuellen Artikel:

http://www.silicon.de/cio/wirtschaft-politik/0,39038992,41532861,00/politiker+und+open+source+toelpel+oder+lobby_opfer.htm

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Posted by Herbert Henke

12 May 2010

Anbei ein kurzes Update zum Start von  ”Idlelo 4“, das ist die alle zwei Jahre stattfindende Konferenz der Afrikanischen Open Source Community – wir sind über das Programm “ict@innovation – Creating Business and Learning Opportunities with Free and Open Source Software in Africa” mit dabei … BG Balthas, InWEnt.
This years Idlelo conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons is taking place from  May 17th – May 21st, 2010 in  Accra, Ghana. The IDLELO Conference, themed „Development with Ownership“, is a premier international forum on Free and Open Source Software in Africa and is therefore an especially important event for any ICT programme. It presents the opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in FOSS and related technologies on the African continent. For ict@innovation, contribution to the conference is an integral part of the cooperation with FOSSFA and a contribution to the development of ICT in Africa. As such we will be hosting several sessions including pre-conference FOSS business training.
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Posted by Balthas Seibold

17 Feb 2010

The regional Open Source gathering “Asia Source 3″ in the Philippines in November 2009 was a culminating point of five years of regional FOSS support by InWEnt in Southeast Asia. Over this period, InWEnt has trained and connected more than 1000 experts from Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines in more than 30 training courses under its it@foss program. While most technology conferences happen as swanky, slick, and well-rehearsed events, Asia Source 3 took the opposite track and ran a camp that was spartan yet spontaneous. From November 7 to 12, 2009, Asia Source 3 gathered 150 representatives in the Yen Center to discuss developments in open source. For those six days, the campers lived in a communal environment that married fun and relaxation with exchange of ideas.

For more information on Asia Source 3 and it@foss, see http://www.it-foss.org/e82/e237/NewsDetail750/index_eng.html

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Posted by Balthas Seibold