The Africa FOSS Business Innovation Award – honoring Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) business development in Africa

Do you want to showcase your award-winning FOSS solution and business model to a continental audience of tech-experts and potential customers in March 2012?

Then make sure to apply for the “Africa FOSS Business Innovation Award – honoring Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) business development in Africa” by 28th February 2012.

The Africa FOSS Community Empowerment Manager is the community face of the African Free Software and Open Source organization in Africa. S/He manages communications in both directions and empowers the multiple communities hosted by FOSSFA. This digital-savvy employee is also responsible for all communications, PR, social media, and content creation on the community portals, among other things.

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is showcasing a number of its capacity building products at the upcoming „eLearning Africa – 6th international conference on ICT for development, education and training”. The three-day gathering of African e-learning and ICT4D experts will take place in Dar Es Salaam from May 25 to 27.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Third Regional Training of Trainers for Linux Admin Certification for East Africa (Code: LToT3)
DEADLINE OF APPLICATION:

13th June 2011

Linux administration training of trainers course

The Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) in cooperation with GIZ (former InWent) Germany, are planning to hold a Linux administration Training of Trainers (LToT) workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Idlelo pre-conference training in Accra, Ghana from 14th to 15th May 2010!

The ict@innovation program invites to participate in a Training of Trainers on “African FOSS Business Models”. The training is designed to enable interested persons, institutions and businesses to act as trainers on the subject of building a business with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

Participants will

Application deadline was 20th January 2010. Please see here for more information.

FOSSFA in cooperation with InWEnt is looking for a:

FOSS Certification Manager for the project ict@innovation

Application deadline is 20th January 2010

FOSSFA and InWEnt are pleased to announce the vacancy for the "FOSS Certification Manager for ict@innovation".

Prazo de inscrição: até 31 de agosto de 2009

Está interessado em criar um negócio de software livre - Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) - de sucesso e em ajudar outras pessoas a fazerem o mesmo?

Possui sólidos conhecimentos de negócios e de FOSS?

Tem experiência em treinar outros e/ou faz parte de uma instituição de treinamento?

Então envie sua resposta até 31 de agosto, para fazer parte de um interessante treinamento sobre a criação de negócios de software livre - Free/Open Source.

Johannesburg, 14/07/2009 - "How can Southern African IT-businesses make money with Free and Open Source Software?“ - this one of the questions being  discussed at the regional course on "Advanced African Business Models with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)“. The two-week event started on July 13 at University  of Witwatersrand, (Wits) in Johannesburg and is the first in a series of training-of-trainer (ToT) events in Southern and East Afria.

On March 10-12, 2009, more than 20 people gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the ict@innovation Content Creation Workshop. Hosted at Strathmore University, the group of experts came together for three days of intense work on training materials on the subject of African FOSS business models.

More information on the workshop is available here.