Wanted: LPI Trainers of Trainers for the FOSS Certification pillar of the ict@innovation project

Application Deadline is 21^st December, 2010.

As announced this is the first in a series of Country Feature we are going to publish on the ict@innovation website. The feature highlights projects, organisations, initiatives and individuals working with FOSS.

Location

eSkills Summit 2010 Cape Town, South Africa

The eSkills Summit 2010 will take place in late July in Cape Town with the objective of engaging and informing government, business and civil society with ongoing e-Skills practices and future developments in South Africa.

Location

18^th European Conference on Information Systems - Pretoria, South Africa

eSkills Summit 2010 Cape Town, South Africa

Final call for papers: end of February

The eSkills Summit 2010 will take place in late July in Cape Town with the objective of engaging and informing government, business and civil society with ongoing e-Skills practices and future developments in South Africa.

The trainings for African FOSS Business Models, a major part of the ict@innovation programme, are currently being conducted in southern and eastern Africa – this summer first trainings took place in South Africa and Uganda. One of the participants of the Uganda training, Isaac Kigen, described the training as an important opportunity: "The training comes at a time when the world is embracing free and open source software and Africa should not be left behind. I think the objectives of the training are being more than met.

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.