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Tanzanian IT experts in Germany on Linux-Learning-Tour / Afrikanische Computerexperten lernen Linux in Freiburg » Linux-Magazin

Posted on July 1, 2013 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

Interesting news coming from former training partner of it@ab, Mr. Hans-Peter Merkel. His organization “FreiOSS” is right now hosting Tanzanian IT experts in Germany on Linux-Learning-Tour. More in the news item (in German)… Link: http://www.linux-magazin.de/NEWS/Afrikanische-Computerexperten-lernen-Linux-in-Freiburg

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, Freiburg, FreiOSS, Hans-Peter Merkel, IT business, it@ab, Linux, Tanzania Leave a comment

IT Sector Promotion in developing and emerging countries – Manual & Toolbox released

Posted on November 22, 2011 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

Just released: an IT sector promotion manual and toolbox with many examples and tools pertaining to OpenIT@giz – Open Innovation for Development such as capacity building, open innovation methods, training-of-trainer networks in IT, Open Source etc. Check it out! BTW: It is drawing on the ict@innovation programme and other programmes described here). And for archival […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged BMZ, FOSS, German Development Cooperation, GIZ, ict4d, IT business, IT sector, IT sector promotion, knowledge, Linux, local IT sector, manual, open innovation, private sector, private sector promotion, SME Leave a comment

ict@innovation programme moves to West Africa: Balthas Seibold opens training in Abuja, Nigeria

Posted on October 24, 2011 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

“Free your IT Business in WEST Africa!” This was the motto of the first Training-of-Trainers of ict@innovation held in the West African region. Balthas Seibold and his colleagues Petra Hagemann & George Nyambuya officially welcomed more than 26 FOSS experts from Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal, who engaged in 10 intense days of peer-discussions […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, Cameroon, FOSS, Ghana, IT business, Nigeria, open source, peer learning, Senegal, Togo, Training-of-Trainer Leave a comment

Just published: “Unleashing Open Innovation Systems”

Posted on September 9, 2010 in Freedom to innovate, News on publications, Open Source IT business by Balthas

The working group on ‘Promoting Innovation Systems’ of Germany’s development cooperation just published a documentation on “Strengthening Innovation Systems in the Context of Development Cooperation”. An article by Balthas Seibold gives an overview of the potential of open innovation for developing countries. Taking the capacity building programme commons@ip as an example, the paper enumerates important […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, News on publications, Open Source IT business Tagged FOSS, GIZ, IT business, Linux, open innovation, open innovation systems, Open Licensing, open source Leave a comment

Johannesburg: Balthas Seibold opens first regional course on Business and Open Source in South Africa

Posted on July 14, 2009 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

How can Southern African IT-businesses make money with Free and Open Source Software? – this one of the questions discussed at the regional course on “Advanced African Business Models with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)“. The two-week event started on July 13 at University of Witwatersrand, (Wits) in Johannesburg and is the first in […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, business model, Capacity Building, FOSS, FOSSFA, IT business, open source, South Africa, Training-of-Trainer Leave a comment

Drive for change! Balthas Seibold opens FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam conferences in Hanoi

Posted on November 14, 2008 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

More than 80 IT experts gathered on 14 November 2008 at “Drive for change”, a conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) held at Horison Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. Carried out as part of the FOSS-Bridge EU-Vietnam initiative, the event was organized by InWEnt of Germany, INRIA of France, and the Institute of Information […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged Asia, business, business development, Capacity Building, EU, European Union, FOSS, FOSS Bridge, FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam, INRIA, IOIT, IT business, matchmaking, open source, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Vu The Binh Leave a comment

Education for a free information society! Balthas Seibold on panel on “Free software & business models for IT companies”

Posted on August 17, 2008 in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

How can sustainable business models in Free Software grow local IT companies in Africa and worldwide? This was one of the main topics of an international panel discussion at the international conference “Free Knowledge Free Technology – Education for a free information society ” held in Barcelona, Spain from July 15 to July 17 2008. […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Freedom to learn, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, business model, Education, FOSS, Free technology, information society, IT business, open source, SELF Leave a comment

New compilation of training material on Open Source Business Models for Development online

Posted on August 4, 2008 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

The it@inwent team recently added a new section to their website. This sites provides an overview of InWEnt’s main capacity building programmes and trainings in the area of “FOSS Business Models and Sustainable Development” as well as its respective training materials. Co-Editor Balthas Seibold explains that “business models based on FOSS offer great potential for […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged business model, development, FOSS, FOSS business models, IT business, knowledge economy, open source, sustainable development Leave a comment

Multi-year training programme on Open Source Software in Africa launched in Senegal

Posted on March 17, 2008 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

Dakar – Balthas Seibold of InWent announced a new regional program called “ict@innovation” at the Pan-African Idlelo 3 Conference in Dakar on 17.03.2008. ict@innovation will focus on fostering small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the field of Free and Open Source Software through regional networking and strengthening of consulting capacities of ICT associations and training […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Capacity Building, FOSSFA, Idlelo 3, IT business, Linux, open source, private sector, Senegal, Training-of-Trainer Leave a comment

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

EU-Vietnamese IT project launched at CeBIT 2007

Posted on March 15, 2007 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business by Balthas

On the 15th of March, Balthas Seibold presented a new European-Vietnamese Project at the “CeBIT” in Hannover, the world’s largest IT trade fair. He officially launched the project on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) cooperation at the LinuxForum. Until 2009 the twinning project will train Vietnamese software enterprises and developers and initiate joint software […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Asia, Open Source IT business Tagged Asia, EU, FOSS, FOSS Bridge, FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam, IT business, local IT sector, matchmaking, twinning, Vietnam Leave a comment

IT@AB participates in IDLELO 2

Posted on February 28, 2006 in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business by Balthas

The SADC knowledge network it@ab (Information technology in Africa Business), with support from InWEnt (Capacity Building International) of Germany sent twenty five delegates from six SADC countries to participate in IDLELO2, the second all Africa conference on Free and Open Source Software in Nairobi Kenya from the 23rd to the 25th of February 2006. InWEnt/it@ab […]

Posted in Freedom to innovate, Open Source & Africa, Open Source IT business Tagged Africa, FOSS, idlelo, Idlelo 2, IT business, Linux, Markus Beckedahl, open source 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

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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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