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AFRICAN BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN IN FOSS CLUB. Created in October 2005, in Libreville GABON, during the 2nd Annual African meeting for FOSS, RALL 2005 Founded by 8 African FOSS companies :ZCP (Burkina Faso)ORCHID SYSTEMS (Madagascar)TRS (Togo)ATOPANI TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (Togo)SIGA (Cam
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2. AFRICAN BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN IN FOSS CLUB Created in October 2005, in Libreville GABON, during the 2nd Annual African meeting for FOSS, RALL 2005
Founded by 8 African FOSS companies :
ZCP (Burkina Faso)
ORCHID SYSTEMS (Madagascar)
TRS (Togo)
ATOPANI TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (Togo)
SIGA (Cameroon)
IDC (Mali)
CDK (Gabon)
ASSIST (Ivory Coast)
3. OBJECTIVES Provide an African business network framework
Federate African FOSS companies to break through FOSS world market
Constitute a lobby to influence the use of FOSS by national decisions makers and sensitize them on political, strategic and economic interests for African countries
4. OBJECTIVES (ctd.) Enable information sharing among members specifically accounting, technical
Promote FOSS in a collaborative manner
Provide technical support across the continent to all organisation for FOSS migration and usage
5. ACTIVITIES Web forums on economic subjects
Organization of a dedicated Business Forum each year during the annual African FOSS Meeting (RALL) next in MOROCCO -OCTOBER 2006
Involvement in workgroups for the promotion and the development of FOSS in Africa
Participation in several international FOSS meetings, conferences and congresses to promote the African FOSS industry. CHALA is a member of FOSSFA council and Active member of AAUL
Organization of specific workshops and events
Training programme – experiences sharing
6. MEMBERSHIP All individual or organization involved in promoting FOSS in business
All FOSS companies in Africa