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Andrés Moreno

NEPAD DRAFTS YOUTH INTO ICT DEVELOPMENT AGENDA | balancingact-africa.com - 1 views

  • A three-year programme was designed and will be presented for adoption at an official launch that will coincide with the NEPAD Youth Summit to be held in June.
  • The purpose of the NEPAD ICT Programme is to accelerate development of ICT infrastructure, and impart ICT skills.
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    This 2006 Article develops a NEPAD 3-plan  to develop ICT infrastructure and skills for the youth. Some portal should have come out of this...Really big goals addressed
Andrés Moreno

FOSSFA in Africa: Opening the Door to State ICT Development Agendas - A Kenya Case Stud... - 0 views

  • Kenya is estimated to have 1.4 million internet users with about 95% of these users located in the two major cities, Na
  • F/OSS-based companies are beginning to emerge in Africa, and with them, the support and training capacity for broader F/OSS adoption. Examples include Obsidian (www.obsidian.co.za) in South Africa, Circuits & Packets Communications Ltd (www.circuitspackets.com) in Kenya and Linux Solutions in Uganda (www.linuxsolutions.co.ug)
  • Donors with long histories of involvement in ICT development in Africa, such as IDRC and Association for Progressive Communication (APC), hosted several workshops for ICT stakeholders, helping to raise the visibility of F/OSS and related ICT concerns.
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  • The team, consisting of donor agency representatives from IDRC and USAID, members of The Kenya ICT Federation, Kenyan academic institutions, and the Kenya WSIS caucus were charged with developing a set of recommendations to the Minister on ICT policy
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    Article describes what are the conditions that helped Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to have a role in drafting ICT policy in Kenya. Include examples of FOSS companies in Africa
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