A network for capacity building in Software Engineering...

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Prof Derek Keats, Executive Director, Information & Communication Services, The University of the Western Cape, Bellville (Cape Town), South Africa.

The African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) project is a collaborative effort among several African higher education institutions to support capacity building in Free and Open Source software engineering. The main core activity of capacity building is undertaken through software design, development, deployment and support. The core area for software development has been e-learning but in 2006 a new application framework, called Chisimba, was designed and developed and with it AVOIR members can...