Call for Individuals - participation in ict@innovation's advanced training programme on African FOSS Business models

Webform Submitted by fredericky on 9. April 2009 - 9:49.

This is the online form for individual applicants responding to the call for participation in ict@innovation's advanced training programme on African FOSS Business models. The call text is available here.
Personal Information

Note: Only applicants from the the listed countries are eligible for participation in the training course.

Your profile and outreach role

Please provide some information on your profile and future outreach role, as well as relevant work experience.
Please note that explanations of the information to be entered are provided under each field in this section.

Present affiliation

Please provide information on your employer / affiliation.

Please particularly provide information on how your employer / affiliated organization is active as an:

  •  ICT and business association
  • University/ higher Education Institution with IT/business programmes
  • ICT training institution (public or private)
  • FOSS association or group
  • IT SME with an outreach potential

Please also provide link to organizations website.

Please describe your profile as:

  • A trainer with an ICT / business association or group
  • An ICT/ business lecturer at a higher education institution
  • A specialist / trainer with an ICT training institution (public or private)
  • A manager of an ICT SME with outreach potential
  • A FOSS advocate with a FOSS association or group
Your outreach potential

Please describe how you plan to pass on the knowledge gained in the trainings to IT-companies and IT professionals in your country. Please provide information on how you are reaching out to IT-companies / IT professionals (e.g. as key clients of your trainings), or how you are working as a lead person in focus group activity or trainer with possibility to access training facilities.

Please provide information on 

  • how you plan to integrate a course on “African FOSS Business Models” into your training/outreach portfolio and  
  • how you envisage to incorporate the course in the IT-business /entrepreneurship programmes/ curricula of your organization.

If you are selected for participation in the training course, you will be expected to act as a trainer yourself afterwards.
Please provide information on how you or your organisation plan to organise and conduct at least two trainings of your own based on the course in your country during 2010.

Track record and personal interest

Please provide information on your personal interest in the topics and learning outcomes of the programme (see here) and how you plan to run a business / training courses.

Please provide information on your experience in ICT and/or business related training, or your experience as a lead person in focus group activity targeting IT-companies / IT professionals.

Please
describe how you have at least two years of professional experience
in ICT and/or
business development and/or experience in training, or as a lead
person in focus group activity targeting IT-companies / IT professionals

Documents to submit

Please attach your CV.

If possible, please upload a short letter of recommendation from your employer, association or contractors from similar engagements to give information on:

  • your track record and engagement
  • possible institutional support to your participation in the Training-of-Trainers course

Participants or their institutions will need to bear travel costs to the training site, as well as make a contribution of 50 US Dollars towards training costs to InWEnt/FOSSFA. Subsidies for travel may be granted upon request and justification.

Relation to professional associations

If you have any other comments or additions, please insert here.
If you are not yet a member, please register here to become a member of ict@innovation's web community: www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/user/register).
Also, please make sure to also update information on your personal profile (login here), if you are already a registered user on ict@innovation. 
 
By submitting this form you are declaring that the information submitted is correct to the best of your knowledge.
It is important to us that your privacy is respected when we process personal data. By submitting this form you agree to the processing of such data only for any purpose connected with your application for this programme. These personal data will only be stored in our internal systems and will not be passed to third parties.
 
Thank you very much for responding to this call for participation. Please complete your application by pressing "submit" (below).