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ict@innovation newsletters

petra — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:42:49 +0100

ict@innovation publishes a newsletter to inform community members about programme developments and current activities. If you would like to stay informed, you can subscribe to our newsletter here.

Ict@innovation participant or partner? Join the Group "Alumni of ict@innovation" on the Alumni Portal Germany!

steffi.meyer — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:36:56 +0100

Have you participated in training-of-trainer courses of ict@innovation or in one of its network-ing events? Are you a partner or friend of the FOSSFA/GIZ programme "ict@innovation"? Then you are cordially invited to join the new group "Alumni of ict@innovation " on the Alumniportal Germany. This will enable you to:

... link up with all fellow trainers, participants, partners & friends of ict@innovation
... stay in touch with GIZ through regular news for alumni and a “Topic of the month”

BUGEMA UNIVERSITY HAS STARTED A SERIES OF TRAINING ON LPIC

rnkambwe1 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:02:24 +0100

We are proud to announce to this community that training on LPI Certification has already started at Bugema University. We started January 30th and Match 19th 2012 will be our grand passing-out of the first Linux-Certified professionals according to our training schedule.

This training is conducted at Bugema University Kampala Campus every Mondays at 4:30 pm to 8:00pm.

Target group and enrollment procedure for this first training

Ushahidi becomes more popular

jmatogo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:37:07 +0100

The Kenyan FOSS based crowdsourcing and incident reporting application Ushahidi is getting great publicity. The application that came out during one of the darkest times in Kenya's history is shining star in Kenya's tech space. See this article that discusses more about its application in other parts of the world.
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/open_source_for_humanitarian_act...

LPIC-1

FRancisthuok — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:27:48 +0100

The catholic University of Easter Africa is launching its first LPIC-1 training schedule on 12th February 2012.
This is a follow-up to the Linux Pre-certification training that the we conducted in December 2011 which was organized to demystify Linux.
So far we have 15 students registered to start.
Our goal with this program is to ensure that all students undertaking Computer Science at the university undergo LPIC-1 training and at least 20% become LPIC-1 certified.