FYI, Jaward or anyone available for a talk or session?
Best,
-Enock
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De : Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459(a)gmail.com>
Date: jeu. 5 sept. 2019 à 17:44
Subject: Celebrate Software Freedom Day in Accra, Bolga or Sunyani
To: linuxaccra <linuxaccra(a)yahoogroups.com>
FOSS Greetings!
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE)[1],
Linux Accra Users Group (LAUG)[2] and Internet Society Ghana Chapter (ISOC
Ghana)[3] are pleased to request your partnership and sponsorship for this
year’s Software Freedom Day event in Ghana scheduled for Saturday September
21, 2019 on the theme, “Innovation, AI & Open Source Technologies”.
Software Freedom Day (SFD)[4] is an annual global grassroots effort to
educate the public on the virtues of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
and also to encourage its use. SFD is expected to attract about 1000
participants physically and virtually via online platforms.
This year’s event will be hosted in 3 locations Accra
<https://sfdaccra19.eventbrite.com>, Bolgatanga
<https://sfdbolga19.eventbrite.com> and Sunyani
<https://sfdsunyani19.eventbrite.com> and will include hands-on training,
plenary, breakout sessions and workshops, convening in-person and virtual
participants from across the continent and global stakeholders and
influencers.
Participants will include government leadership, civil servants, private
enterprises, IT organizations, researchers,entrepreneurs, innovators and
students.
Activities for the celebration include:
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Creating awareness about the potential of open source technology for
education, business and national development
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Discussions on prospects of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
Cryptocurrency for Ghana
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Teaching participants to install various Linux distributions
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Exhibiting open source projects and innovations
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Geospatial technology, UAVs (drones), cyber security, photography and
many more
Kindly help share! if you would like to support kindly reach out to
info(a)linuxaccra.org.
1.
https://www.aiti-kace.com.gh/
2.
https://www.linuxaccra.org/
3.
https://isoc.gh/
4.
https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
FOSS Regards,
SFD 19 Team