Sponsors
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
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  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
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  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware
  • ZDNet

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Nnenna Nwakanma

Nnenna Nwakanma
CEO, NNENNA.ORG

Website | @nnenna

Biography notes on Nnenna Nwakanma

Nnenna Nwakanma is Dreamfish Community Lead and Chair of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa. She has been one of the major Civil Society actors in the World Summit on the Information Society and advices on the use of technology for development.

A key participant in the Global Information Society, she advises on the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) and is also an accomplished Civil Society trainer on major Information Society issues.

Nnenna Nwakanma has been part of the founding members of various ICT initiatives in Africa – The African Civil Society on the Information Society (ACSIS), the African Network of Information Society Actors – ANISA, and the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa – FOSSFA.

Nnenna has lived in in Nigeria, Cameroon, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast. She speaks English, French and local West African languages

Nnenna is running an ICT consultancy firm, nnenna.org. She is one of the Directors of Open Source Intiative, Chair of FOSSFA council and Vice President of the Digital Solidarity Fund. Check on what Nnenna is doing on www.nnenna.org www.fossfa.net www.opensource.org www.dsf-fsn.org

And contact her on nnenna@nnenna.org nnenna@opensource.org

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Sessions

11:35am Thursday, 07/24/2008
Open Source / Open World
Emerging Topics
 Location: Portland 255
Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (UNU-MERIT), Harshad Gune (Symbiosis International University), Martin Michlmayr (Hewlett Packard), Nnenna Nwakanma (NNENNA.ORG), Bruno Souza (SouJava), Alolita Sharma (Technetra, Open Source Initiatve (OSI))
It's been 10 years since the term open source was coined in the U.S., and in that time transparent commons-based software development has changed the face of the U.S. software industry. But what impact has open source had outside of the U.S.? This panel will introduce you to five people who report on the reach and impact of open source worldwide. Learn how we're changing the world!! Read more.
2:35pm Thursday, 07/24/2008
Art of Community Lightning Talks
Emerging Topics
 Location: Portland 252
Dawn Foster (Intel), Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Allison Randal (Canonical), Audrey Eschright (Elevated Code / Open Source Bridge), Sulamita Garcia (Intel), Nnenna Nwakanma (NNENNA.ORG), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Silona Bonewald (League Of Technical Voters), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (Google Inc)
Given the open source movement, the popularity of social networks, and new tools for collaboration, more people are looking for ways to build community. The Art of Community came about because we wanted to write a book about community using a wiki so that a community could grow around the book. A different author leads each chapter, and you will hear from many of them during these lightning talks. Read more.
OSCON 2008