The full programme for UbuntuNet Connect 2025 has just been published and it offers a tightly focused agenda that reflects the conference theme “Resilient and Sustainable Research and Education Networks for the Future”. The event will take place on October 30 and October 31, 2025, in Harare, Zimbabwe, and is being hosted by the Zimbabwe …
UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce that Research Data and Communication Technologies (RDCT) has joined the UbuntuNet Partnership Programme as a Silver Partner for the upcoming UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 conference. This partnership marks a step forward in fostering innovation and strengthening collaboration between technology providers and the research and education community across Eastern and Southern Africa. …
On 7 August 2025, the AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series welcomed EPIC Network team: Mzime Ndebele-Murisa, EPIC Africa Program Coordinator, and Dr. Gavin Luter, Managing Director of the EPIC Network, for an engaging session on bridging the gap between African universities and their surrounding communities. The session, Connecting Higher Education with Local Communities: Examples from …
The countdown has begun! With just one month remaining until early bird registration closes, now is the time to secure your spot for UbuntuNet-Connect 2025, the premier annual gathering of research and education networking stakeholders in Eastern and Southern Africa. This year’s conference will take place from 30–31 October 2025 in Harare, Zimbabwe, under the …
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UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to invite librarians and journal editors across Eastern and Southern Africa to an insightful webinar titled “Crossref Services for Librarians and Journal Editors.” This session is part of the Alliance’s strategic partnership with Crossref under its growing Partnership Programme, aimed at empowering the research and education community with cutting-edge tools and …
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The Women Hackathon 2025 Phase One (virtual) is here with us! This follows a competitive selection of 63 young women in STEM, organised in 21 teams, from a pool of 93 concept submissions that were received. The hackathon 2025, themed “Innovations for climate change, adaptation and mitigation,” seeks to address the gap in innovations supporting …
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UbuntuNet Alliance was pleased to host a two-day orientation training for its newly appointed Board of Trustees from 17th to 18th July 2025 at its Secretariat in Lilongwe, Malawi. The induction, facilitated by E Square Consultancy Services, marked a significant step in equipping the Board with essential tools to effectively steer the Alliance’s strategic and …
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UbuntuNet Alliance is excited to announce a year-long strategic partnership with Crossref, a global leader in scholarly metadata and digital identifiers. This collaboration is part of the recently launched UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme, which was recently launched to create beneficial opportunities between the Alliance community and organizations invested in strengthening research and education across Africa. …
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HAL is the French national open archive managed by the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication at CNRS, providing researchers and institutions with tools for submitting, discovering, and sharing academic publications across disciplines and languages. On April 10, 2025, HAL was featured in the AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar series, hosted by UbuntuNet Alliance and Access2perspectives with …
On July 3rd, 2025 the AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar series welcomed attendees to a session on the African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS). This webinar series is organized by UbuntuNet Alliance and Access2perspectives with support from the African Open Science Platform. This webinar series aims to showcase initiatives that advance open knowledge sharing across the …
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