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Johannesburg: Balthas Seibold opens first regional course on Business and...
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...
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Silang – the Philippines: Asia Source 3 Meeting Reinforces Asian Free and...
While most technology conferences happen as swanky, slick, and well-rehearsed events, the recently concluded Asia Source 3 took the opposite track and ran a camp that was spartan yet spontaneous. From...
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Talk on open innovation & book launch of “Free your IT-business in Africa” at...
This biennium’s Idlelo (four) conference on Open Source and the Digital Commons in Africa organized by FOSSFA had the theme of “Development with ownership” and took place in Accra, Ghana from...
View ArticleInWEnt, DED and gtz are now “GIZ”
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...
View ArticleOpen Educational Resources and Open Licensing for Capacity Building
In a recent presentation for GIZ e-learning staff, Balthas Seibold gave an introduction to “Open Approaches to educational provision”, stressing the potential of Open Educational Resources and Open...
View ArticleUNCTAD Information Economy Report 2011 mentions ict@innovation
UNCTAD just released their Information Economy Report 2011 focusing on the link between ICTs and private sector development. It also mentions our programm ict@innovation with FOSSFA (see section on...
View ArticleAfrican fellows wanted on the “role of intellectual property in open...
This is an interesting call by the “Open African Innovation Research and Training” inititative, which is part of the GIZ commons@ip programme, which I run: “The Open A.I.R. initiative on the role of...
View ArticleMOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls
It looks like the ideas around open education are reaching the mainstream media. I just found this piece on “Massive Open Online Courses — known as MOOCs” in the New York Times. the article takes up...
View ArticleITU promotes Linux Certification in Arab countries – links to Africa’s...
Last week, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced a new LPI certification and training project throughout the 22 countries in the League of Arab States. This is certainly good news...
View ArticleNew course sign up! Tutoring for eLearning Communities, Tutored Online Course...
The GC21 E-Academy of GIZ has just started to take in applications for a new round of an online course on “Tutoring for eLearning Communities”. This might be of interest to anyone who works for...
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