== Strategic partners ==

FOSSFA, UWC, UNU Merit, it@ab, Meraka Institute, ...

== Training Partners (Participants) ==

* include business schools!
* several participants expressed interest in being a training partner

== Other Stakeholders to involve ==
e.g. also in the next planning workshop

* important to involve governments (agreed on by many in the group), even though "the" government may be bought by MS, there are always people, like in the opposition, individual ministers - that are pro-FOSS
* it's a matter of selling it to them as "their" idea, to achieve that some person in the government is really behind FOSS
* so important to involve government side from the beginning, as otherwise they can put barriers in the way, and the other way they can be of help
* and don't start at too low levels when it comes to government > rather legislative people, ministers etc.
* involve also government as potential FOSS-client, e.g. from government ICT Board

* IT Sector
* IT Businesses
* IT Association or General Business Association ie. Rotary or Lions Club
* SYNAQ and LinuxHoldings, IntoWeb, Metrics,

* National FOSS Forums be established to bring different stakeholders together and to better respond to specific local conditions

* Although some of the entires might be out of date, try [http://www.go-opensource.org/gossip/ GOSSIP] - [http://www.go-opensource.org/gossip/organisations/ organisations].

* business assocations that represent IT clients, e.g. from agriculture or retail sectors

* NGOs
** LinuxChix
** WomensNet
** Ungana Afrika

* Donors (e.g. in Addis there are 600 donor organizations present) - influential + potential clients

* [http://www.canonical.com/ Canonical]
* [http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/ The Shuttleworth Foundation]

* Linux User Groups

== Specific Stakeholders in Countries ==

Kenya:
Strathmore University (they combine both business + FOSS, would be an ideal partner; they should be asked to host the next workshop, as they also have the facilities) + LPA + Skunkworks + Openworld

Note: Strathmore University has already agreed to host the next workshop.

South Africa:
Several companies that do both FOSS and training, like [http://www.up.ac.za U. Pretoria], [http://www.uwc.ac.za UWC], [http://www.bcx.co.za/ Business Connexion], [http://www.tut.ac.za/ Tshwane University of Technology], [http://www.ast.co.za/ Gijima], [http://www.choicetech.co.za/ Choice Technologies], [http://www.ibm.com/za/ IBM], [http://www.impilinux.co.za/ ImpiLinux], [http://www.novell.co.za/ Novell], [http://www.obsidian.co.za/ Obsidian Systems], [http://www.sourcecom.co.za/ Sourcecom], [http://www.sita.co.za/ SITA], [http://www.tangent.co.za/ Tangent].

Tanzania:
TAFOSSA, several universities

Uganda:
Uganda Martyrs U., Uganda Christian U., Makerere, Mkuru (?) U.

Malawi:
University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, National College of Information Technology, BUMAS International, Malawi Institute of Management, Mzuzu University