African FOSS Community: What is our role regarding the themes of the GCCS 2015 [Freedom, Growth and Security]? How do we address those issues in our continent? What do we need to do the job?
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Our mission:
Promote the use of the FOSS model in African development,
Promotes the integration and adoption of FOSS in national policies
Uses FOSSFA expertise to add value to FOSS initiatives in the continent
Women empowerment
Capacity building
Promotes African FOSS expertisecreativity and industry Partners with development organizations who share same goals with FOSSFA
Mile stones archieved so far:
Capacity building - Build expertise in many regions of africa (ict@innovation)
Raise awareness all over africa on internet usage to aleviate powverty
Supporting and collaborating on Internet Governance Forum
Our challenges
human Ressouce with ualified expertise
collaboration
- collaboration with governments
Budget
- budget to build more capacity
- budget to conduct studies
- budget to lobby
- budget to get to the right table to inform, influence the policy making
Our expectation
There should be more security awareness in Open Source products, because no one want to use a unsafe and unstable product.
Otherwise people will use pirated software
The challenge is Africa is to make people stop using pirated software.
Open Source software is good in stimulating local economies by providing service based business model