On ramp IT an Ethiopian mobile solution provider held a successful Google Developer Group Bar Camp, as part of the continent wide African Android Challenge (AAC), on the 27th April at Addis Ababa University. The day was attended by around 40 students, professionals’ entrepreneurs and lecturers. Ethio telcom Deputy CTO and CIO also attended.

Last week Friday December 14th, Free and Open Source Software For Africa (FOSSFA)’s ICT@INNOVATION gave us another opportunity and platform to discuss FOSS related issues. The topic was ‘Opensource Security, how secure? ‘
Points like the strength in Opensource regarding intrusion protection were mentioned.  Seun ojedeji said opensource security at the level of intrusion is absolutely secure. Also mentioned was the ‘openness’ which enables vulnerabilities to be quickly identified and fixed.

LPI Applauds UN Organization Report

(Sacramento, CA, USA: November 29, 2012) The Linux Professional
Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization
(http://www.lpi.org), applauds the release of the flagship report "The
Information Economy Report 2012: The Software Industry and Developing
Countries" by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD). The report provides specific recommendations on Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) for national policy makers and includes two

It was a great week for FOSSFA's ict@innovation marketing team in the first week of October 2012.

It is always interesting that every time I get involved in a discussion about FOSS and Proprietary software, the FOSS enthusiasts always take on an activist approach. This in my opinion becomes the biggest hurdle that faces FOSS entrepreneurs. When I train the FOSS business models course, I am always keen to remind the participants to focus on the business.

It was great ,unforgetable day in the history of Free and Open Source Software in Tanzania, as we celebrated Software freedom Day 2012. With  VIPs  around, Participants from the media, academics, business world, lawyers, software developoers, hackers present in the venue…! some from outside the
country , Germany, Canada, Finland, Kenya, what a re-union? i met my
former schoolmate who came all the way from Arusha, Mwanza, Zanzibar,
Iringa and Mbeya to participate in the event…! its a great day…!

From September 16th till September 21st the programme team will meet in Tanzania for a week of workshops.
We have a full week ahead: Monday: Pillar C - Evaluating the Internship Programme
Tuesday - Wednesday - Evaluation Workshop
Thursday - Volunteer Community Workshop
Friday - Steering Committee Meeting

Early this month, the Kenya open source
community held the Software Freedom Day (SFD) celebrations in Kenya
at the Strathmore University. This event was organized by the Linux
Professional Association of Kenya (LPA), in partnership with the iLab
and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
This was the second time that we were
hosting the SFD, after having done the first one in 2007.