A network for Capacity-Building in Software Engineering through Free Software development in Africa: The African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR). This is a talk I gave at the Google Campus in April 2007.

1. A network for Capacity- Building in Software Engineering through Free Software development in Africa Prof Derek Keats Executive Director Information & Communication Services The University of the Western Cape Bellville (Cape Town), South Africa [email_address] African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) A potpourri of stories

7. African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR)

10. 2005

11. AVOIR [email_address] Masters in ICT Policy and Regulation Collaboration

12. Connecting with other institutions in your neighborhood or globally, creating business opportunities, encouraging broader use of Chisimba products, including business opportunities for local software developers Posting new ideas to the mailing list, keeping us up to date with what you are doing, answering questions, asking questions Designing new functionality and writing code for KEWL and other Chisimba applications Deploying KEWL and other applications in your own environment Coding Connecting Collaborating Implementing

14. The KINKY application framework... ...and.....

17. Driven by users and practitioners, not by technology. The awesome potential of student projects

19. KEWL.NextGen training for lecturers at the University of Jos, Nigeria

20. Educators and developers meet in Ghana to discuss new features that would benefit educational processes.

21. Megan Watson of the UWC team ran a training workshop for new developers in Ghana in August, 2006.

23. Kabul University lecturer conducting KEWL.NextGen (ANGEL) training in Kabul

24. KEWL.NextGen e-learning and development workshop in Kalibo, Philippines, as invited by the Philippines Governmnet. In September, Nic Appleby from UWC will be going to Philippines to do set up and training at 6 universities.

25. KEWL.NextGen training at Uganda Martyrs University

33. 2006

36. Helper modules e.g. htmlTable htmlForms layer getIcon, etc Engine Object Model Controller Database View Module Data access Logic Templates Module Data access Logic Templates Module Data access Logic Templates

37. Chsimba - 2006/7 Designed a new architecture Services oriented Standards compliant Better object orientation Improved code generation Enterprise services bus Model driven development Web 2.0 enabled Ready for Education 3.0

38. Education Three point what?

39. A lot of what is done with Internet technologies in education - still! 19th Century Pedagogy 21 st Century Minds 21 st Century Technology

40. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/keats/index.html

42. Most of the world is not like Stanford!! Tag cloud : Poor schools, Underprivileged, under-investment, weak students, costly bandwidth, no computers, literacy, security, food, ...

43. Primary role of professor Content arrangements Learning activities Technology role Taxonomy of Education 1.0 to 3.0 Student behaviour Institutional arrangements

46. Engineering the tipping point

48. AVOIR Where now? Where next?

51. Alliances A 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

53. Summer of code 2005

56. Online : http://avoir.uwc.ac.za Email : [email_address] We are grateful to the IDRC, USAID, the Department of Science and Technology, UNESCO and Sun Microsystems for financial and other support to the AVOIR project. We are also grateful to those organizations who had enough confidence to contract us to develop applications even though we were unproven .