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    Empowering Co-operatives in Southeast Asia through Information Technology

    Posted on December 12, 2007 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Staff of co-operatives from Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines who were trained as Information Technology (IT) Specialists by the “Information Technology for Southeast Asian Co-operatives (it@coops) Project” gathered together for the “Regional Forum on it@coops: Empowering Co-operatives through Information Technology” held November 19-21, 2007, Antipolo City, Philippines. The Project is implemented from 2004-2007 in co-ops affiliated […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged agriculture, AWCF, BDC, business development center, Capacity Building, cooperatives, coops, e-agriculture, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, farming, gender, Indonesia, IT business, it@coops, Lecira Juarez, Mahudin, NATCCO, Pit Heltmann, Southeast Asia, Thailand, the Philippines, trai, women Leave a comment

    Over 40 IT-companies cross FOSS Bridge between Europe and Vietnam

    Posted on November 19, 2007 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia by Balthas

    Hanoi: A total of 42 agreements of cooperation were reached between Vietnamese and European business partners at the end of the first matchmaking event of the project “FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam” for small and medium-sized IT enterprises in Hanoi, Vietnam. Satisfied by the success of the very first twinning event in the field of open source, […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia Tagged Asia, business, business model, Capacity Building, EU, FOSS, FOSS Bridge, FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam, IT business, Southeast Asia, twinning, Vietnam Leave a comment

    Indonesian Minister supports training camp of BMZ/InWEnt/UNDP

    Posted on January 31, 2007 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Over 140 IT professionals of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from more than 27 countries gathered at Sukabumi, Indonesia for a nine-day Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) conference and training camp called “ASIA SOURCE II” from 22 to 30 January 2007. The Indonesian Minister for Research and Technology, Mr. Kusmayanto Kadiman showed […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged Asia, Asia Source, Asia Source 2, Asia Source II, BMZ, Capacity Building, commons-based peer production, FOSS, Free technology, Indonesia, it@foss, Kusmayanto Kadiman, open source, openness, Southeast Asia, Sukabumi, Tactical Tech, TTC, UNDP Leave a comment

    FOSS@Work in Manila, Philippines

    Posted on November 15, 2006 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Over 50 participants from Southeast Asian countries explored the chances for economic and social development through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) at the “first FOSS@Work International Conference-Workshop for Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SME) in the I.T. Industry”, held at the Heritage Hotel Manila, Philippines from November 12th to 15th, 2006. In his opening speech, Balthas Seibold […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged APDIP, Asia, Capacity Building, CICT, Emmanuel Lallana, FOSS, it@foss, open source, Shahid Akhtar, SME, Southeast Asia, Teodoro Casino, the Philippines, UNDP, Vietnam Leave a comment

    Information Technology in African Business

    Posted on October 19, 2005 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    The SADC-wide network “it@ab – Information Technology in African Business” recently held a two days International Conference in Lusaka, Zambia on “Smooth integration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) into existing software environments”. The SADC region was challenged to adopt FOSS as a viable route towards affordable ICTs and business development at the local […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, business model, Capacity Building, FOSS, information technology, InWEnt, IT business, it@ab, Lusaka, open source, SADC, Zambia Leave a comment

    InWEnt yourself

    Posted on July 26, 2005 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business, Work by Balthas

    After three exciting years as an Associate Expert at UNESCO, Balthas Seibold is going to take up new challenges in Germany: As of September, he will be working with InWEnt in Bonn, a German development agency in the field of capacity building and training. A senior project manager for programmes on “ICT for Development”, he […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source IT business, Work Tagged Capacity Building, development, ict4d, InWEnt, sustainable business development Leave a comment
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    1. pdai on Peer-producing knowledge: a game-changer for development cooperation? – Question 5 of 10 on ‚learning by sharing’31/10/2021

      Building that collaboration may be difficult for some people. so the project that will be built will be constrained at…

    2. Balthas on About24/09/2019

      Dear Wahdan, here ist the source of the Quote from the letter of Jefferson: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html

    3. Balthas on Emerging Schools of Thought on Commons-Based Peer Production – New Article Out24/09/2019

      Dear Winda, of course you can thare the guides - all is under open licenses. See below. Just Name the…

    4. Wahdan Arum Inawati on About12/08/2019

      how quotation of the parts of the letter of Jefferson on knowledge and property?

    5. WINDA EKA SAMODRA on Emerging Schools of Thought on Commons-Based Peer Production – New Article Out04/08/2019

      Thank you for this nice guide.This really helped me, keep posting! can i share it?

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