Welcome to ict@innovation - Creating Business and Learning Opportunities with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Africa

ict@innovation is an African capacity building programme of FOSSFA and GIZ, which supports small and medium IT-enterprises and aims to encourage the growth of African ICT industries. ict@innovation promotes:

1) Free and Open Source business models: Free your IT Business in Africa!

2) Linux Administration Certification

3) innovative African FOSS applications: Coding FOSS in Africa  

This portal provides free training materials on FOSS Business Models and on Linux Admin Certification, information on courses, and contact to people working with FOSS. Become part of the ict@innovation community and engage with us.


ict@innovation Blog: News, Opinion, Trainings & more on African FOSS Business

  • 7 May 2012 - 11:37
    Overview of people trained by ict@innovation program
    Number of people trained in 2011

    Hi All,

    How many people has ict@innovation trained so far in which countries? Please find attached a chart showing the answer. Quite impressive! A big thank you to all those who participated in the trainings and thereby brought ict@innovation to life!

    There will be 1 more training of trainers in Senegal this year. It will kick off ict@innovation in francophone West Africa. The call for participation will be published soon!

  • 15 May 2012 - 13:16
    PaulPaulito Offer for LPI Training Courseware
    ICT@Innovation and PaulPaulito.com agreed to cooperate regarding courseware for Linux training. Every customer who subscribes, before the 30th of June 2012, to www.paulpaulito.com via ICT@Innovation will receive a 30% reduction of the normal price when using the following code: ICT@I2012PP.

  • 28 Apr 2012 - 12:27
    Zalongwa To Sponsor Dar 2012 SFD

    FOSSFA TZ members and FOSS well-wishers in Tanzania are looking forward to have a grand event in this year Software Freedom Day, which will be composed of contests, paper presentations, FOSS related cultural event, various FOSS training and what else ? Goodies during Networking session to all participants.

    The first sponsor, Zalongwa www.zalongwa.com is a FOSS business entity which is doing well in Tanzania and abroad, will offer a number of FOSS related trainings. However, some more groups, individuals are still invited to show-case their FOSS products, demos, training.

  • 19 Apr 2012 - 13:14
    ″Appreciation and acknowledgement and impact from relevant knowledge is what tempts people to share their knowledge.″

    Not long ago, Frank Tilugulilwa tweeted a link to an article about the efforts of Tanzania`s government to soon provide the citizens of Tanzania with „fast, efficient and affordable data traffic to support a range of industries.“ No wonder that this information matters to Frank Tilugulilwa. He is the head of the Free Software Innovation Unit at University of Dar es Salaam Computing Center Ltd, and one of the trainers of GIZs and FOSSFAs pan-african FOSS Business Trainings.

  • 14 Apr 2012 - 17:37
    Science Hack Day, Innovation Hubs and Access to Technology

    I am sitting on the 4th floor of Piedmont Plaza at 88mph attending the Science Hack Day Nairobi. As I watch the busy Ngong Road traffic on a rainy evening just opposite the Kenya Science University College, I can't help but appreciate the advances that we have made in Kenya in terms of spreading access to technology. This is just one of the many innovation hubs that we have in Nairobi besides the iHub, iLab, NaiLab, mLab and others that I may not know about. This is only my first time here, though I have been to the Brew Bistro on the first floor several times.

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