ict@innovation supports and promotes the development of African Free and Open Source Software Applications.

Learning by Coding - the mentored internship programme (MIP) of AVOIR & ict@innovation In partnership with the university network AVOIR, ict@innovation has launched a Mentored Internship Programme. The mentored internship programme enables interns to learn by coding by involving them in actual FOSS projects and matching them with skilled and dedicated mentors.

• Interns are recruited from small and medium IT enterprises as well as engaged graduate-level students in Africa.
• Mentors are recruited from African IT enterprises and training institutions as well as German and European enterprises and FOSS institutions.

ict@innovation’s aim is to:
• Strengthen practical programming capacities and qualify African FOSS
developers
• Enable them to contribute to local and international FOSS projects
• Support the development of locally relevant software applications,
adapted to the needs of small and medium enterprises and the public sector.

If you are interested in becoming an intern, becoming a mentor, or you are working on a FOSS project you would like to recruit interns for, please get in touch with ict@innovation Programme Manager James Kariuki.

Coding FOSS in Africa

  • 25 Jan 2012 - 22:17
    Idlelo5 Participation for ict@innovation Trainers

    The ict@innovation programme would like to inform all ict@innovation trainers that we have opportunities for support to attend the Idlelo5 Conference in Abuja which will be taking place between 19th and 23rd March 2012.

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  • 19 Sep 2011 - 12:29
    Tampere University in Finland runs an Open Source Community Game - starting today!!!

    Dear all,


    The Tampere University of Technology in Finland is running an Open Source Software Community game that allows you to gain open source skills! The game is starting today and for those of you interested in participating at it please just see the original announcement from Vreerendra who is part of the group that is running the game:

    http://www.opense.net/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=291&func=view&catid=612&id=463

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  • 5 Sep 2011 - 10:41
    Tanzanian trainee programmers get inspiration at the Mentored Internship Programme

    A group of geek-interns were out in full force in Tanzania recently, taking part in rigorous FOSS development training, which included topics such as optimisation techniques and infrastructure deployment and maintenance.

    The workshop, which is part of the greater Mentored Internship Project also known as the MIP (of which you can find out more information on page 7 of this Chisimba newsletter), was hosted at the University of Dar es Salaam in February this year.

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  • 23 Aug 2011 - 09:42
    Open Motion Conference "putting open source into motion"
    A presenter during the Motion Conference 2011 in Kimberely SOUTH AFRICA

    23rd August 2011, Kimberely,SOUTH AFRICA

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  • 8 Aug 2011 - 20:49
    Preparing for Software Freedom Day 17 Sep 2011

    Just a quick blog to let all interested parties in Johannesburg and Pretoria know what we are planning for Software Freedom Day on the 17th of September this year.

    Its going to be tight as we have left it rather late to organise but I am sure with community involvement we will be able to organise something :)

  • 14 Jun 2011 - 22:52
    openSE updates: new look, badges, community game, live support, ASF mentoring programme & more

    Dear all,

  • 22 Apr 2011 - 11:23
    Chisimba spreading the wings through the Mentored Internship Project

    Over the last few months, 9 students from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) have been working on a mentored-internship project (MIP) where they are developing an application based on the Chisimba framework. Supported by the ict@innovation, the interns have been working on a subsection of web-based School Management Information System (SMIS) that would be used by Tanzanian schools. The subsection involved are the academic and the fees modules.

  • 4 Apr 2011 - 10:23
    Mentored Internship Project
    This is a group for the participants, both mentors and interns, to be listed and to share their ideas.

    To bring together all the participants of the MIP

  • 6 Mar 2011 - 20:29
    Join MIP

    The mentored internship programme (MIP) enables coders to apply what they learn in theory to “real world problems” and gain self-confidence and skills in self-marketing. It seeks to help local businesses and communities "grow their own timber" when it comes to the development, adaptation and customisation of Free and Open Source Software. Our aim is to  qualify FOSS developers and experts of IT-associations, training institutions as well as other relevant change agents in the development of innovative local FOSS solutions.

  • 6 Mar 2011 - 20:24
    Get Training Material

    ICT@INNOVATION: Mentored Internship Programme Resources

    The MIP resources available here are for the projects that we are currently engaged in. Most of these resources have been developed by the documentation teams of the FOSS projects that the fall under.

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