ict@innovation has come a long way since the start of the programme:

FOSS Business

ict@innovation has trained over 80 trainers in the area of Free and Open Source Software Business Models for Africa. Over 12 national training courses have been held across Southern and Eastern Africa and many more are scheduled to take place in 2011.

The ict@innovation training materials have been downloaded over 1000 times and viewed over 4000 times. Over 500 hard copies have been printed and distributed in Africa.

FOSS Certification

At the moment training-of-trainers courses on Linux System Administration (Linux Professional Institute Certification Level 1) are being held in different African countries. In ict@innovation's first training-of-trainers courses held in Nairobi and in Johannesburg a total of 27 trainers were trained, with about 70 percent passing the LPIC-1 exams at the first attempt and are now returning to their home countries for follow-up trainings. 

In 2011 more training-of-trainer as well as national courses on Linux system administration will be organised. Also a comprehensive open training handbook will be published soon.

Coding FOSS in Africa

Currently the pilot phase of the Mentored Internship Programme on software programming is taking place. Students from different nodes of the African university network AVOIR are working together with their mentors on programming projects.

In 2011 further mentored internships will be organized. For more information, see the "coding FOSS in Africa" section.

Networking and Community Building

The ict@innovation portal has become a central internet platform for FOSS in Africa. Over 500 persons and organisations have registered profiles on the site. Also, regional networking and peer-to-peer learning has been at the centre of ict@innovations involvement with FOSSFAs biannual pan-African "Idlelo" conferences, such at Idlelo 4 in May 2010 in Accra and Idlelo 3 in 2008 in Senegal. You can browse through some blog entries on Idlelo here of have a look at the official Report of Idlelo 3.

What's happening now?

In 2011 ict@innovation will continue to offer trainings in the area of FOSS Business, Certification and FOSS Coding in Africa. Programme activities are due to be expanded to West African Countries.

For current information and updates on programme activities see our news section or blog.

African FOSS Business

FOSS Certification

FOSS Applications

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