Growing SMEs is a premium annual get-together for SME practitioners in Latin America. High growth SMEs, funds, banks, angel investors, and members of the public and academic sector will gather in Bogotá on September 22nd and 23rd to do business and exchange ideas about how to further stimulate the growth of Latin American SMEs.
Parallel to this event there will be a "BiD Network Marketplace" where we will present our projects and where private "Matchmaking New Ventures Meetings" are organized for targeted investors and entrepreneurs.
Go to growingsmes.org/en and register for this international event where you will Connect, Exchange and Invest.
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Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
Maker Faire Africa
The aim of a Maker Faire-like event is to create a space on the continent where Afrigadget-type innovations, inventions and initiatives can be sought, identified, brought to life, supported, amplified, propagated, etc. The long-term interest here is to cultivate an endogenous manufacturing base that supplies innovative products in response to market needs.
Maker Faire Africa is excited to announce that its search for Makers is now open!
There are no educational and or professional restrictions on participating as Maker. Submit your project here
Maker Faire Africa is excited to announce that its search for Makers is now open!
There are no educational and or professional restrictions on participating as Maker. Submit your project here
P2P Networks and Processes
Medialab-Prado issues a call for papers to be publicly presented during the 4th International Inclusiva-net Meeting. This edition will focus on an analysis of “peer-to-peer” networks and network processes, highlighting the social potentials of cooperative systems and processes based on the structures and dynamics inherent to these types of networks.
More information and submission form:
http://medialab-prado.es/inclusiva-net
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2009
Event dates: July 6 to 10, 2009 in Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain)
More information and submission form:
http://medialab-prado.es/inclusiva-net
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2009
Event dates: July 6 to 10, 2009 in Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain)
100 Hours of Astronomy
100 Hours of Astronomy, is on track to be the largest single science public outreach event ever. More than 1500 events have been registered in over 130 countries and this number is increasing every day. 100 Hours of Astronomy is a truly global project; an event on a scale never attempted before, with more than one million people expected to participate!
The Document Freedom Day 2009
The Document Freedom Day 2009 (DFD 2009) celebration (http://documentfreedom.org/) on 25 March 2009. DFD 2009 aims to raise awareness on the importance of accessible document formats and open standards in everyone's day to day activities.
Software Freedom Day: Peru
We are ready with XOs, Arduinos and Incubators.
And our special guest is the XO Incubator designed by peruvian engineers
And our special guest is the XO Incubator designed by peruvian engineers
Software Freedom Day Celebration in Peru
September 20th is Software Freedom Day, a worldwide celebration of Free Software. Over 500 teams around the globe will be holding events to promote and celebrate the achievements of the Free Software Movement.
Free Software Movement is leading freedom struggle in domain of information technology. This movement is fight for the freedom of knowledge, freedom to communicate and right to share knowledge.
Free Software, also known as "Open Source" software, is software that you can legally: use, copy, modify, and distribute your modified versions.
Free Software is available for free, which means no more software license fee. This makes it accessible and affordable to Peruvian Community.
The celebration of Software Freedom Day will not only encourage grassroot efforts to promote alternative solutions presented by Free Software but more especially celebrate the freedom and innovation.
As part of the celebration Cultura Libre and many local groups are organising a seminar at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.
Software Freedom Day will be celebrated globally on September 20th, 2008.
Please visit www.softwarefreedomday.org for more information.
Free Software Movement is leading freedom struggle in domain of information technology. This movement is fight for the freedom of knowledge, freedom to communicate and right to share knowledge.
Free Software, also known as "Open Source" software, is software that you can legally: use, copy, modify, and distribute your modified versions.
Free Software is available for free, which means no more software license fee. This makes it accessible and affordable to Peruvian Community.
The celebration of Software Freedom Day will not only encourage grassroot efforts to promote alternative solutions presented by Free Software but more especially celebrate the freedom and innovation.
As part of the celebration Cultura Libre and many local groups are organising a seminar at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.
Software Freedom Day will be celebrated globally on September 20th, 2008.
Please visit www.softwarefreedomday.org for more information.
The LHC for dummies
Plus Magazine.
The LHC for dummies
The LHC for dummies
The world's biggest physics experiment is due to kick off on September the 10th, when the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) switches on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
BIF-4 Collaborative Innovation Summit
Each year, BIF Summit offers a limited number of full and partial scholarships to students, young entrepreneurs and community development professionals. The BIF-4 Collaborative Innovation Summit on October 15-16, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island.
Now in its fourth year, the BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit has earned a national reputation for its unique storytelling approach to an event that has been described as more conversation than conference. BIF-4 will bring together many of today's most compelling innovators, business model renegades and true transformers to reveal the secrets of innovation success through personal storytelling.
Now in its fourth year, the BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit has earned a national reputation for its unique storytelling approach to an event that has been described as more conversation than conference. BIF-4 will bring together many of today's most compelling innovators, business model renegades and true transformers to reveal the secrets of innovation success through personal storytelling.
Firefox Download Day - June 17, 2008
The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008. Join our community and this effort by pledging today.
Computing and science education
This SC Education workshop is intended for undergraduate and graduate educators in all fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, humanities, arts and social sciences, especially those from minority-serving institutions. High school teachers collaborating with college faculty and mentoring faculty are also welcome.
The workshop introduces parallel and cluster computing in an educational setting. The instructors address teaching about grids and parallel environments, and present examples suitable for classroom use.
The workshop introduces parallel and cluster computing in an educational setting. The instructors address teaching about grids and parallel environments, and present examples suitable for classroom use.
2008 The International Year of Sanitation
The UN General Assembly declared the year 2008 The International Year of Sanitation. The goal is to raise awareness and to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.
2009 the International Year of Astronomy
The 62nd General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy with the aim of increasing awareness among the public of the importance of astronomical sciences and of promoting widespread access to new knowledge and experiences of astronomical observation.
The year 2009 is chosen to commemorate the 400 years since Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope towards the sky. Now telescopes on the ground and in space explore the Universe, 24 hours a day, across all wavelengths of light.
For more information about the International Year of Astronomy 2009, please visit its website at http://www.astronomy2009.org/.
The year 2009 is chosen to commemorate the 400 years since Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope towards the sky. Now telescopes on the ground and in space explore the Universe, 24 hours a day, across all wavelengths of light.
For more information about the International Year of Astronomy 2009, please visit its website at http://www.astronomy2009.org/.
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