Digital Commons Summit

The conference will address the challenges and opportunities of the creation and use of free / open source software and open content and their development potential for Africa. The conference has both strategic and practical objectives, bringing together participants from government, education, business and civil society together with the developer community. The purpose of this conference is to:

• Review progress on implementation of open source and open content in Africa
• Create opportunities for peer-to-peer networking and learning among Africans participating in open source and open content initiatives
• Lay the groundwork for collaborative creation of open source software in Africa 4. Expose Open Source companies and products to a variety of participants

The conference will operate through a number of plenary sessions led by world leaders in the area of open source and open content, parallel sessions with contributed papers and posters addressing specific themes, breakaway sessions for for networking, a mini trade fair, and a hackathon that will run in parallel with the conference beginning two days before the conference starts.

The conference themes are:

1. Open Source and Open Content in Government
2. Open Source and Open Content in Health
3. . Open Source and Open Content in Education
4. Open Source Methodologies and Tools

The hackathon will be run in parallel to the conference, and will produce a useable piece of open source software as a demonstration of the power of open source.

See theConferece website