As announced this is the first in a series of Country Feature we are
going to publish on the ict@innovation website. The feature
highlights projects, organisations, initiatives and individuals
working with FOSS.
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.
On the 28th and 29th of April, 2010 representatives from nine AVOIR nodes gathered at UWC for a two day workshop to plan a joint mentored internship programme of ict@innovation and the African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) Network.
CENFOSS is currently supporting SOCREMO (www.socremo.com)a micro finance bank. SOCREMO have branches trough all Mozambique (South and Center to be specific), and is the first bank in Mozambique, and perhaps in all Southern Africa, that has migrated more than 300 computers from Windows to Linux. For the project CENFOSS is using Ubuntu 8.04. The banks servers, configured by CENFOSS, run on Debian.
The Community Education Computer Society (CECS), an ICT training NGO established in 1985 in South Africa, will be conducting a 2-day workshop on free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) in Maseru, Lesotho on 20 & 21 August 2009.
Workshop Objectives
The objectives of the workshops, which are supported by OSISA, are to:
openeverything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's about thinking, doing and being open.
ict@innovation will be presented in the afternoon. For a full programme see the website.
Hosted by Government of Uganda through the Ministry of ICT, IST-Africa 2009 Conference & Exhibition will take place 06 - 08 May 2009 in Kampala, Uganda.
The Kenyan organization Skunkworks organized an ICT Open Day today, Oct. 4th, 08, in Nairobi. The event featured a variety of local (mostly open source) software projects and their developers -
MobileActive08, jointly organized by MobileActive.org and the Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT), will take place from 13-15 October 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The theme of the event is "Unlocking the Potential of Mobile Technology for Social Impact”.
In the context of ict@innovation it will be interesting to see, what kinds of FOSS mobile applications are being featured in the conference.
As announced this is the first in a series of Country Feature we are
going to publish on the ict@innovation website. The feature
highlights projects, organisations, initiatives and individuals
working with FOSS.