Implementing Partners

FOSSFA - The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA)

FOSSFA partners with InWEnt to implement the ict@innovation programme. FOSSFA is the premier African FOSS organization. The vision of FOSSFA is to promote the use of FOSS and the FOSS model in African development, and the organization supports the integration of FOSS in national policies. FOSSFA also coordinates, promotes, and adds value to African FOSS initiatives, creativity, industry, expertise, efforts and activities at all levels.

http://www.fossfa.net

To become a FOSSFA member, please fill the FOSSFA Membership Application .

Please also check the page on acknowledgements to some of the contributors, who are heavily investing in ict@innovation.

InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany   

InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany, is a non-profit organisation with worldwide operations dedicated to human resource development, advanced training, and dialogue. Our capacity building programmes are directed at experts and executives from politics, administration, the business community, and civil society. We are commissioned by the German federal government to assist with the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. In addition, we provide the German business sector with support for public private partnership projects. Through exchange programmes, InWEnt also offers young people from Germany the opportunity to gain professional experience abroad.

http://www.inwent.org/index.php.en

InWEnt's it@inwent programms strengthen IT sectors in Africa and Asia, fosters key innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for economic development, and support its partners to use ICTs as enabling tools for poverty reduction.

http://www.it-inwent.org

Contact the programme management team.

Find out more about the organisational structure of ict@innovation.

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Funding / Strategic Partners

German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

The BMZ is the main funder of ict@innovation and shareholder of InWEnt, representing the Federal Republic of Germany.

More information is online here: http://www.bmz.de/en/

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) 

OSISA supports ict@innovation on a strategic level. The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a leading Johannesburg-based foundation established in 1997, working in ten Southern Africa countries: Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. As a foundation, OSISA provides African leadership in the definition and development, within the specificities of Southern African realities, of the concept and ideals of an open society.

http://www.osisa.org

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Training Partners

UNU-MERIT is a joint research and training centre of United Nations University (UNU) and Maastricht University, The Netherlands. As the United Nation's University's Maastricht Economic and social Research and Training Center on Innovation and Technology, UNU-MERIT provides insights into the social, political and economic factors that drive technological change and innovation. The Centre's research and training programmes address a broad range of policy questions relating to the national and international governance of science, technology and innovation, with a particular focus on the creation, diffusion and access to knowledge.
Within UNU-MERIT, the Collaborative Creativity Group (CCG) investigates the socio-economic aspects of collaboration across all domains. It examines the mechanisms that enable people and companies to innovate together, and helps policymakers to create a positive environment for creativity and innovation, promoting economic growth and social welfare.

http://www.merit.unu.edu/
http://ccg.merit.unu.edu

AITI-KACE

The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), Ghana's first Advanced Information Technology Institute works to stimulate the growth of the ICT Sector in ECOWAS. Established in 2003, through a partnership between the Government of Ghana and the Government of India, this state-of the-art facility provides a dynamic environment for innovation, teaching and learning as well as practical research on the application of ICT4D in Africa.

http://www.aiti-kace.com.gh/

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Outreach partners

ict@innovation relies on a variety of international, regional and national, African implementing and outreach partners and participants such as IT associations, ICT training institutions, universities, and other change agents.

For an overview of the growing community of ict@innovation, browse the web community by organizations or by individuals.