Current action & material on the  ict@innovation Component A on African FOSS Business Models

Release: Open course material on "Advanced African Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Business Models"
 
The open course material on "Advanced African FOSS Business Models" supports the building of knowledge and capacities in African small and medium ICT enterprises to make a business with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It aims to contribute to the growth of African ICT industries through spreading FOSS business models for enterprises in Africa. The material has been collaboratively developed by FOSS experts from Africa and Europe for use as training material for experts and executive staff from IT businesses in Africa, ICT-associations, their member organisations, ICT-training institutions as well as universities and their trainers. See section on Training Material.

A look back on four Training of Trainers of African FOSS Business Models
 
From July to November four training of trainers (ToT) on "Advanced African FOSS Business Models" have been conducted in the ict@innovation  programme. Throughout the ToTs the participants and future trainers have been very motivated and eager to learn more about FOSS Business Models. The six modules of the training were very interactive and a lot of productive discussions took place. Each ToT was held in a period of ten days in each host country, followed by a six-week online phase. More.
 

Previous action & material on the  ict@innovation Component A on African FOSS Business Models
 
Content Creation Workshop
The workshop for the creation of training materials on African FOSS business models was held on March 10-12, 2009 at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. [Workshop report] 
 
Plan for the ict@innovation Component A on African FOSS Business Models The section provides an overview of the activities that are planned to strengthen capacities in African FOSS business skills. It was shared with the participants of the first planning workshop for comments before publishing the Terms of Reference for the component A coordinator, which are based on this scenario.
 
Outcomes of the Planning Workshop on the ict@innovation Component A on African FOSS Business Models The workshop was held in the context of the Idlelo 3 conference in March 2008 in Dakar/Senegal.