Dear Colleagues, It is that time of the year when we take stock of the year 2019 which will soon be behind us. At UbuntuNet Alliance, 2019 has been a very great year in which we registered impressive milestones for ourselves and our NRENs. Just this week, we capped off this great year by signing, …
PRESS RELEASE 18th December 2019/Brussels, Belgium Following the success of predecessor projects ‘AfricaConnect’ and ‘AfricaConnect2’, Africa’s three regional Research and Education Networks (RENs) UbuntuNet Alliance, West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) and the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), in partnership with Europe’s leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services GÉANT, have …
Students and staff from public universities and colleges across Malawi should soon start enjoying improved Internet services in their campuses following a training session for network engineers from seven public institutions organised by the Malawi Research and Education Network, (MAREN) MAREN has organised the training session, which runs from 2nd to 13th December 2019 through …
The distance between Mogadishu in Somalia, and Tromsø in Norway is 7753 km. But despite of the vast distance separating them, Tromsø, just North of the Arctic Circle, and Mogadishu, facing the Indian Ocean, have something in common. They are both coastal towns with all the ocean’s food resources right at their feet. But while …
By Urpo Kaila Information security is, by definition, or at least by my definition, about protecting our assets against risks. In order to do this, we must know our assets. For National Research and Education Networks (NREN), this is often quite straightforward. NREN assets are the network, the network infrastructure with its configurations, the above-the-network …
This year Klaas Wierenga, the inventor of eduroam, has been honoured by being inducted into the internet hall of fame and now eduroam itself has been recognised by the WiFi industry and nominated as a finalist for “Product of the Year” at the annual WiFi Awards https://thewifiawards.com/. From its beginnings as a secure WiFi roaming service in 6 …
PRESS RELEASE 18th November 2019/Lilongwe, Malawi and Bujumbura, Burundi: Hundreds of students and researchers from at least 15 institutions of higher learning and research centers in Burundi will now be able to optimize their research and education collaboration initiatives following the successful completion of the connection of the Burundi Education and Research Network (BERNET) to …
Four NREN Members of UbuntuNet Alliance namely; Kenya Education Network (KENET), Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet), Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET) and Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) are part of the stakeholders of the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) Solutions for the Internet of Things Workshop which will be held …
UbuntuNet Alliance Chairperson, Professor Stephen Simukanga has been elected Chairperson of the Natural Sciences (SC) commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) at the 40th Session of the General Conference that took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. A Press Statement published by UNESCO says the the polls were held in accordance with …
