The ict@innovation programme was launched at the Idlelo 3 conference in Dakar/Senegal (16 - 20 March 2008). Idlelo is the African Conference on Free/Open Source Software and the Digital Commons, that takes place every two years. Final report see file below. 

InWEnt co-organized two tracks of the Idlelo 3 conference. Also, the first planning workshop for the ict@innovation component on African FOSS Business Models was organized in connection with Idlelo 3.

Most of the presentations of the two conference tracks co-organized by InWEnt are available for download or online viewing below.

 

Conference Track 2: Human Capacities, Capabilities and Competencies (Monday 17 March 2008)

* Introduction to the track (Derek Keats, University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

* SENECLIC: Presidential Digital Inclusion Initiative in Senegal (Abakar Diop, Director, Presidential Advisor on Decentralised Cooperation and Digital Solidarity Fund, Senegal)

* Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie: FOSS capacity building (Pierre Ouedraogo, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, France) 

* FLOSS capacity development (Rishab Ayer Ghosh, UNU-Merit, Netherlands)

* FOSS training experiences of efossnet (Solomon Gizaw, efossnet, Ethiopia)

* Importance of FOSS for Sustainable African Development (Kim Tucker, CSIR/Meraka, South Africa)

 

Conference Track 3: Business Models and Community Development (Tuesday 18 March 2008)

* Introduction to the track (James Wire Lunghabo, Linux Solutions, Uganda)

* Launch of InWEnt's new programme ict@innovation (Balthas Seibold, InWEnt, Germany)

* Free Software for a Free Africa (John 'Maddog' Hall, USA)

* Economics of FLOSS business Models (Karsten Gerloff, UNU Merit, Netherlands)

* Connecting and sustaining linkages between technical communities and business (Alex Gakuru, Kenya)

* Business through FOSS - Open Source bundle for SME in Ethiopia (Thomas Rolf, GTZ, Project Leader on-e, ecbp, Ethiopia)

* Business Models adopted by OPENWORLD (Dorcas Muthoni Gachari, Openworld, Kenya)

* Taking care of today with offline (Renaud Gaudin, Geekcorps, Netherlands / only audio file available)

* Accessibility in the Virtual Workplace: Opportunities and challenges (Glenn McKnight, ODESSA, Canada)

* Expert Panel: In search of African FOSS Business Models and Skills
(best download the audio files and listen to them from your computer)

*** Alex Gakuru + James Wire Lunghabo
*** Arnold Pietersen
*** Christian Roland
*** Dorcas Muthoni Gachari

 

Attachment	Size
Idlelo3 Final Conference Report (english, pdf)	548.04 KB