The Fourth African Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons (IDLELO 4) to be held from 17^th - 21^st May, 2010, in Accra at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE).

This knowledge-building and sharing event under the theme: “Development with Ownership” is a forum for African experts and their global partners to share experience in order to expand awareness of the 'open' philosophy and the creation and use of open technologies for the benefit of our people. The emphasis on concrete examples of best practice presented by leaders in the field will further build capacity increasing the momentum of achievements from the previous editions of Idlelo held in South Africa, Kenya and Senegal.

Icon Women and Young Peoples Leadership Academy is pleased to announce its call for applications for the 2010 Northern Uganda Transformational Leadership Enhancement Program for Women. The Northern Uganda Leadership Enhancement  Program is designed to identify, promote and ignite the potential for visionary leadership of women within this region. It is  open for Ugandan women aged 18 years and above.

Icon Women and Young People’s Leadership Academy (IWYPLA) is a Ugandan Civil Society Organization that is dedicated to working with women, children and young people (male and female) in Uganda and all over Africa to discover and develop their potential for visionary leadership. Icon envisions “a totally transformed, progressive and violence free Uganda and Africa” and its mission is “to fully ignite the potential for visionary leadership in Uganda’s and Africa’s women and young people through the facilitation and promotion of self-help, self-determination and self-empowerment approaches”.