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Final Month to Take Advantage of Early Bird Registration for UbuntuNet-Connect 2025!

Events, UbuntuNet Connect / By Harold Bowa / July 28, 2025 July 28, 2025

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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Upcoming Webinar: Crossref Services for Librarians and Journal Editors

Events, Partnership Programme / By Harold Bowa / July 22, 2025 July 29, 2025

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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Onboarding Participants to Phase I of the Third Women Hackathon 2025

Stories, Women in STEM / By Harold Bowa / July 22, 2025 July 22, 2025

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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Welcoming New Leadership: Board Induction Training Held at UbuntuNet Alliance

Capacity Building, Members / By Harold Bowa / July 22, 2025 July 22, 2025

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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Crossref Joins the UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme!

Partnership Programme, UbuntuNet Connect / By Harold Bowa / July 16, 2025 July 16, 2025

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: The French National Open Archive Within the Global Open Science Ecosystem, an African Perspective.

AfricArXiv, AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series, Capacity Building / By Harold Bowa / July 14, 2025 July 14, 2025

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 …

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Spotlight on APOS Democratizing African Research

AfricArXiv, AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series, Capacity Building / By Harold Bowa / July 14, 2025 July 14, 2025

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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Regional and National Research and Education Networks From Africa Represented at the TNC 2025

Stories / By Harold Bowa / June 27, 2025 June 27, 2025

The Research and Education Network (REN) Community from across the world converged in Brighton, United Kingdom, at the Brighton Dome from 9 – 13 June 2025 to interact and share their experiences during the TERENA Networking Conference (TNC). The TNC is the largest and most prestigious research and education networking conference. The TNC25, themed “Brighter Together,” …

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Meet us at the 2025 AAU General Conference!

Events / By Harold Bowa / June 23, 2025 June 23, 2025

UbuntuNet Alliance is excited to announce its participation as an exhibitor at the upcoming Association of African Universities (AAU) General Conference, taking place from 21st to 25th July 2025. The Alliance will be showcasing its key services, initiatives, and strategic direction to the higher education and research community from across the continent. Organized by the …

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Fourth Annual Open Science Workshop in Harare: Fully Funded for 20 Librarians

Open Science Workshops / By Harold Bowa / June 20, 2025 June 23, 2025

UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce the 4th annual Open Science Training, to be held on October 29, 2025, in Harare, Zimbabwe, on the eve of the UbuntuNet‑Connect 2025 Conference. Now in its fourth year, this one‑day workshop brings together university librarians from Eastern and Southern Africa for hands‑on sessions in Open Access, FAIR data, …

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