ict@innovation supports and promotes the development of African Free and Open Source Software Applications. Learning by Coding - the mentored internship programme (MIP) of AVOIR & ict@innovation In partnership with the university network AVOIR, ict@innovation has launched a Mentored Internship Programme. The mentored internship programme enables interns to learn by coding by involving them in actual FOSS projects and matching them with skilled and dedicated mentors.

• Interns are recruited from small and medium IT enterprises as well as engaged graduate-level students in Africa.

• Mentors are recruited from African IT enterprises and training institutions as well as German and European enterprises and FOSS institutions.

ict@innovations aim is to:

• Strengthen practical programming capacities and qualify African FOSS developers

• Enable them to contribute to local and international FOSS projects

• Support the development of locally relevant software applications, adapted to the needs of small and medium enterprises and the public sector.

 

If you are interested in becoming an intern, becoming a mentor, or you are working on a FOSS project you would like to recruit interns for, please get in touch with ict@innovation Programme Manager James Kariuki.

 

 

For updates on current activities please see below: 

 

  • 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.

  • 27 Mar 2012 - 08:47
    Newsletter of March - Bulletin de Mars : Special Idlelo

    Dear All,

    I am currently working on the newsletter  of FOSSFA and it will be a special one since Idlelo was the main event of March.

    So feel free to send me your inputs (thoughts, pictures, etc.) or quotes that you will like to share (you can let me know if you want to write about something special).

    Have an excellent week.

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    Bonjour à tous,

  • 9 Mar 2012 - 14:05
    German Government funds German-African research partnerships to build ICT study courses in Africa

    The German Government via its Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) released a call to fund research partnerships between German Research institutions and partners in Subsaharan Africa. One of the main goals is to build  African ICT study courses and to fund exploratory measures / pilot measures in  "Applied information and communication technologies (ICT)"  via German-African research partnerships.

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