The conference took place in Dakar between the 16th and 20th March and was organised by IDLELO.

Some of the main events were:

The Digital Doorway project made use of FOSS and Open Content

We are beginning to see a trickle of press releases, photos and outcomes from the IDLELO 3 conference taking place this week in Dakar (program in ODT format). I was encouraged by this big training program on open source software announced by the German InWent capacity building organization. I've been seeing alot of interesting InWent activities in Africa recently including with the One Laptop Per Child program.