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    InWEnt, DED and gtz are now “GIZ”

    Posted on January 3, 2011 in Work by Balthas

    Balthas Seibold is now with the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)” – the successor of a merger of InWEnt – Capacity Building International and the two other bilateral technical cooperation agencies of Germany DED and gtz. The slogan of the merger is “Broad-based expertise for sustainable development – under one roof”. And this is […]

    Posted in Work Tagged Capacity Building, GIZ, InWEnt, merger Leave a comment

    Regional Alumni Conference in Southeast Asia discusses Open Source for Healthcare, other topics

    Posted on July 2, 2010 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    So this is me at InWEnt’s first regional Alumni Conference for Southeast Asia in Hanoi, Vietnam. At the conference, I was acting as a moderator of a Workshop on “open source for healthcare” (Link now to latest version of page on the Internet Archive. Here’s a gist of the workshop as summarized back then: Free […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged Alumni, conference, Hanoi, health, health sector, healthcare, InWEnt, IOSN, it@foss, open source, Southeast Asia Leave a comment

    Dortmund: Balthas Seibold speaks at seminar on “Strengthening Innovation Systems in the Context of Development Cooperation”

    Posted on October 8, 2009 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    Innovation: What role for ICTs and for Open approaches? This has been a guiding question for a joint talk by gtz’s Thorsten Scherf and InWEnt’s Balthas Seibold at a symposium and seminar organized in Dortmund for gtz staff and other experts on innovation systems promotion. Balthas Seibold pointed out, how we might be moving from […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source IT business Tagged FOSS, gtz, ICT, ICTs, innovation, innovation divide, innovation system, InWEnt, open innovation, open innovation systems, Thorsten Scherf Leave a comment

    After UN Info-Summit – InWEnt’s networks on ICT capacity building reinforced

    Posted on November 19, 2005 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source IT business by Balthas

    The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society closed on Thursday 18 November 2005 after almost a week of intense negotiations, plenary sessions, a large ICT for all exhibition and parallel events attracting around 19.000 participants from more than 800 entities including UN agencies, private sector companies and civil society organizations. For […]

    Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source IT business Tagged I CT4D, ICT, InWEnt, it@ab, it@coops, it@inwent, NATCCO, UN, United Nations, WSIS, WSIS 2, WSIS II 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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