InWEnt co-organized two tracks of the Idlelo 3 conference in Dakar/Senegal (16 - 20 March 2008), including the following presentations (Some of the presentations are posted on WebPresent/Chameleon and can be viewed online. All available presentations are posted below, as .ppt, .odp or .pdf.):

Monday 17 March 2008
Conference Track 2: Human Capacities, Capabilities and Competencies

* Introduction to the track (Derek Keats, University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

* SENECLIC: Presidential Digital Inclusion Initiative in Senegal (Abakar Diop, Director, Presidential Advisor on Decentralised Cooperation and Digital Solidarity Fund, Senegal)

* Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie: FOSS capacity building (Pierre Ouedraogo, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, France)

FLOSS capacity development (Rishab Ayer Ghosh, UNU-Merit, Netherlands)

* FOSS training experiences of efossnet (Solomon Gizaw, efossnet, Ethiopia)

* Importance of FOSS for Sustainable African Development (Kim Tucker, CSIR/Meraka, South Africa)

* Introduction to the track (James Wire Lunghabo, Linux Solutions, Uganda)

Tuesday 18 March 2008
Conference Track 3: Business Models and Community Development

* Launch of InWEnt's new programme ict@innovation (Balthas Seibold, InWEnt, Germany)

* Free Software for a Free Africa (John 'Maddog' Hall, USA)

* Economics of FLOSS business Models (Karsten Gerloff, UNU Merit, Netherlands)

* Connecting and sustaining linkages between technical communities and business (Alex Gakuru, Kenya)

* Business through FOSS - Open Source bundle for SME in Ethiopia (Thomas Rolf, GTZ, Project Leader on-e, ecbp, Ethiopia)

* Business Models adopted by OPENWORLD (Dorcas Muthoni Gachari, Openworld, Kenya)

* Taking care of today with offline (Renaud Gaudin, Geekcorps, Netherlands)

* Accessibility in the Virtual Workplace: Opportunities and challenges (Glenn McKnight, ODESSA, Canada)

Expert Panel: In search of African FOSS Business Models and Skills