FOSS Business

Call for Training of Trainers published -- apply now!

Wanted: Future trainers on “Free & Open Source Business Models for
Africa” in East and Southern Africa!

    Application Deadline is May 30, 2009.

Are you interested in building a successful business in Free/Open
Source Software (FOSS), and in helping others to do the same?

Do you have a solid background in business and FOSS?

Do you have experience in training others, and/or are you part of
a training institution?

Then respond by MAY 30 to become part of an exciting training
programme on building businesses with Free/Open Source Software.


The call for participants in the Training of Trainers is now open
at http://ict-innovation.fossfa.net/call.

ict@innovation: Training of Trainers: Topics

Overview of African FOSS Business Models Training Contents

The ict@innovation Advanced African FOSS Business course is modular, hands on, and based on real-life FOSS business problems, issues and scenarios in African IT-SME. You as participants will be able to engage in practical exercises such as designing a business plan for a sample project and designing, revising and localizing training materials.

Training Material Content Creation

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The Content Creation Community (3C) Group

Working Context:

E-Learning Courses: Open Source & More IT for African Business

InWEnt/it@ab has released a series of advanced e-learning courses on Information Technology (IT)- "Open Source & More IT for African Business" focussing on the needs of business related IT consultancy in Africa.

Kenyan skunkworks@innovation for business

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On Saturday 4 th October we held Kenya's first ICT Open Day dubbed “Skunkworks@innovation”. The event was very successful in bring together technical people, business community, and government in one room to sample local innovations and explore business opportunities therein. Over twenty local companies that submitted their demo products briefs and qualified were allocated presentation tables/slots.

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