Prof Derek Keats

Executive DirectorInformation & Communication ServicesThe University of the Western CapeBellville (Cape Town), South Africadkeats@uwc.ac.za

Collaboration 2.0

ICT as a platform

ICT as the subject of cooperation African Virtual Open

Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR)

ICT as an enabler of cooperation within SANORD Nature of technologies

enabling cooperation Process and people

issues are more important than technology

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Value

ICT as a platform

ICT as the subject of cooperation African Virtual Open

Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR)

ICT as an enabler of cooperation within SANORD Nature of technologies

enabling cooperation Process and people

issues are more important than technology

Red: AVOIR nodesBlue: Collaborating partnersYellow: Supporting partners

Build human capacity in software engineering through the collaborative development ofFree Software (Open Source)

- Develop and support Free Software Innovation in African higher education institutions- Do so by uniting scarce and dispersed skills towards a common purpose

Deliver world-class, innovative software and services in the process of building ourcapacity in Africa

- Chisimba framework and applications- Software development in support of other initiatives- E-Learning- Web 2.0 applications

Create an ecosystem to promote and strengtheninnovation through transactions taking place within the ecosystem

- Application and deployment- Software for special projects- Administrative systems- Links to academic and research activities- Support collaboration

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Institutions Sponsors Community radio Community newspaper E-Learning in Ethiopia E-Learning in Afghanistan SA-Nordic community Chameleon presentation sharing / HP HIV/Aids project NetTel@Africa

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Institutions Sponsors Community radio Community newspaper E-Learning in Ethiopia E-Learning in Afghanistan SA-Nordic community Chameleon presentation sharing / HP HIV/Aids project NetTel@Africa

AVOIR Board One member from each member institution Representation of partners if required

So far informal Work by consensus Only ever had one physical meeting Work mainly via a board mailing list Trying first VOIP meeting in the next two weeks

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Stories& news Testing Developer

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Creating shared benefit

What is CHISIMBA? Chisimba – Chichewa (Malawi) word for the framework used to build a traditional African house

An object-oriented framework for rapid development of distributed software applications

Previous version: KINKY

What is CHISIMBA?A framework for learning good software engineering principles and practices

Building confidence through collaboration

Contributing on our own terms

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Driven by practitioners

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opportunities

The awesomepotential of

student projects

Red: AVOIR nodesBlue: Collaborating partnersYellow: Supporting partners

Kabul University lecturer conducting KEWL (ANGEL) training in Kabul

KEWL.NextGen e-learning and development workshop in Kalibo, Philippines, asinvited by the Philippines Government. In September, Nic Appleby from UWC wenr to Philippines to do set up and training at 6 universities.

Red: AVOIR nodesBlue: Collaborating partnersYellow: Supporting partners

WashingtonState UniversityCentre to Bridgethe Digital Divide

AlliancesA network of networks

An alliance can be viewed as a network of networks

Increasing the networks in the

alliance strengthens the alliance and the

underlying networks

Alliances USAID – Avian Influenza Mapping Businesss

Newspaper, Travel, Labour relations, Startup cafe SANORD

SANORD portal HP/Chameleon Federation Washington State University Sun Microsystems

How can SANORD benefit from some of the lessons of collaboration in AVOIR and related initiatives?

How can we build synergy with AVOIR and related initiatives so that we create multiple win-win scenarios?

It is a very common mistaketo focus on technologies

Even IT people often do this

And often when they don't think they are doing so!

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Thank you View and listen online at

http://slideshare.net/dkeats http://tinyurl.com/2agd6a (blog)

View or give it yourself live online or download in a variety of formats at http://chameleon.uwc.ac.za

AVOIR http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/

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Attribution credits

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