FOSSFA and InWEnt launching first regional course on Business and Open Source in Johannesburg, South Africa
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. The course is organized by the pan-African Open Source federation FOSSFA as well as the German non-for-profit, "InWEnt – Capacity Building International“. Main training and facilitator partners are the Advanced Information Technology Institute of the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) and the United Nations University, UNU-MERIT of The Netherlands. This advanced course brings together over 17 experts from universities, training institutions and private sector in South Africa, Malawi and Zambia. It...