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.

Dear Community Members

We need your attention. The funding phase of ict@innovation is ending at the end of 2012. During Idlelo 5 last week, some of us had the chance to meet and gather ideas on how to keep the ict@innovation communities on FOSS Business Models and Linux Certification active and growing. Now your contributions are needed as well!

Location

This is the 2nd Exam lab in Nairobi for 2012. Its open to everyone and all LPI exams will be available.

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,

Hi All,

 There will be a meeting on Thursday, 22nd March 2012 during Idlelo 5 (www.idlelo.net), regarding ict@innovation's communities (mainly FBT and FOSS Certification).

Please find attached the agenda and feel free to send your questions, ideas, doubts to cem@fossfa.net.

 We wish to see you (for those who will bw able to make it) tomorrow and/or thursday.

Thank you in advance.

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 Bonjour à tous,

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.

Location

This is a volunteer workshop sponsored by LPI and hosted by LPI East Africa to contribute to the developement of the just launched Linux Essentials certification. Invited participants will be contributing exm items to be included in the Linux Essentials exam which will debut in June 2012.

The Idlelo 5 conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons took place from March 19th – March 23rd, 2012 in Abuja, Nigeria. The IDLELO Conference, themed “Open Source Solutions for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)”, is a premier international forum on Free and Open Source Software in Africa and is therefore an especially important event for any ICT programme.

Location

COSS - http://coss.ug - has organized a 3 hour QnA event on Linux Essentials and other Linux Certification courses that are now available to Ugandans.
Everyone is invited to attend. Please share this with your contacts in Uganda.