Announcement of the 15th UbuntuNet Alliance Annual General Meeting of Members (AGM), 6th August 2021
In line with the Covid-19 safety regulations, UbuntuNet Alliance will hold its 15th Annual General Meeting virtually on Friday, 6th August 2021. The Annual General Meeting of Members, is the top decision-making body that must sustain the Members’ collective will to...
Celebrating 10 years of the AfricaConnect project
This year we celebrate 10 years of the AfricaConnect project. To celebrate the milestone, we asked the three CEOs of the implementing partners to give their thoughts on the progress of the project. UbuntuNet Alliance CEO, Dr. Matthews Mtumbuka had this to say:...
Register for the NRENs, Earth Observation Group Collaboration webinar, 7th July 2021, 9:00am UTC
The purpose of this webinar is to disseminate among the AfriGEO and NREN communities about each other's activities. For the AfriGEO community to learn more about NRENs; and for NRENs to learn more about the AfriGEO community and to understand the...
UbuntuNet Alliance Joins DataCite
Lilongwe, Malawi: 10th June 2021: UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce that the Executive Board of DataCite has accepted UbuntuNet Alliance as a member of DataCite. DataCite is a leading provider of persistent identifiers for research. Through its portfolio of...
Announcing the Vacancy for the Secretary General of the Association of African Universities
Following the end of term of the Secretary General of the Association of African Universities (AAU) in September 2021, the Governing Board of the AAU has approved that the position be filled. The position of the Secretary-General of the AAU will therefore...
AfricaConnect: Celebrating 10 years of African European collaboration
On May 11th 2021, 10 years after the start of the first phase of AfricaConnect, we celebrate the achievements and get ready for the next steps. In 2010, representatives from the European Union, African Ministries, the African-Caribbean-Pacific Secretariat, the...
Events
15th UbuntuNet Allliance Annual General Meeting of Members, Virtual, 6th August 2021.
UbuntuNet Alliance will hold its 15th Annual General Meeting virtually on Friday, 6th August 2021. The Annual General Meeting of Members, is the top decision-making body that must sustain the Members’ collective will to collaborate regionally. It is composed of Representative Members from Member NRENs and Observer Members from NRENs in Construction
UbuntuNet Alliance Services Workshop, Virtual, 28th July 2021
This workshop aims to update the NREN community on the progress UbuntuNet Alliance has made in updating its yet to be unveiled Value Added Services Portfolio. The workshop will also solicit views and feedback from the NREN community on the proposed and demanded services.
TERNET Conference on Digital Transformation, 16-17 Sept 21
The digitisation phenomena characterised by new technologies innovated out of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the 21st century offers unprecedented breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence, Big Data analytics, edge computing, Internet and social media. The Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET), through its first international conference on digital transformation in education and research, is inviting practitioners, researchers, and industrialists to explore novel ideas, share topical research findings, discuss lessons learned and success stories, map out major challenges, and collectively debate on future directions for education and research.
Services
Network connectivity in different forms and sizes is our core business. Additional services on top of the network are being rolled out continuously for the member NRENs to use themselves or offer them to their institutions.
Connectivity
Cloud
Identity
Members
Projects
AfricaConnect3
AfricaConnect3 supports the development of high-capacity internet networks for research and education across Africa. It buids on its predecessor projects, AfricaConnect and AfricaConnect2
MAGIC
Sci-GaIA
