[APCPress] Free Software/Open Source Foundation for Africa: Action Plan and interest in UK Parliament

[Karen Higgs]

Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa: Action plan for the
next three years

The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) in
conjunction with APC has completed an action plan for 2003-2005 and a
briefing on the state of FOSS in Africa. 

The APC Addis Workshop on ICT Policy and Civil Society sparked the
formation of the foundation with the workshop working group on
Information Security and Applications Development unanimously resolving
to convert itself into an interim civil society task force to champion
free and open source software. The foundation came into being during a
preparatory conference for the World Summit on the Information Society
in February 2003 and now support for FOSSFA is being debated in the
British Houses of Parliament!

Find out more about FOSSFA and read the action plan:
http://www.wougnet.org/ICTpolicy/opensource.html#FOSSFA

FOSSFA in UK Parliamentary debate: 
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/ukparl_hl?DB=ukparl&STEMMER=en&WORDS=fossfa+&COLOUR=Red&STYLE=s&URL=/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds03/text/30618w02.htm#30618w02_wqn8

Article about FOSSFA by Maud Hand for APC:
"Can Open Source Technologies Transform African Information
Infra-structures? A troupe of African techies tell it how it is"
http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=9965