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UbuntuNet-Alliance, SEACOM sign AfricaConnect2 network services contract agreement

UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 22, 2016

UbuntuNet Alliance has awarded a 15-year contract to pan-African telecom enabler SEACOM to provide point to point connectivity services to National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) of Eastern and Southern Africa through the European Union co-funded AfricaConnect2 project. This contract kicks off the procurement of connectivity services in Eastern and Southern Africa – the first …

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MAGIC eHealth webinars offers global health practitioners unique chance of interaction

MAGIC / By / September 22, 2016

The months of September and October  promise to be busy and eventful ones for the Middleware for Collaborative Applications and Global Virtue Communities, (MAGIC), one of the European Union Co-funded Horizon 2020 projects which UbuntuNet Alliance is an implementing partner. In these two months, MAGIC will offer Global Health practitioners and others with health-related interests …

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Zimbabwe Academic Research and Education Network becomes UbuntuNet Allaince’s sixteenth NREN Member

Members / By / September 22, 2016

The UbuntuNet Alliance family continues to grow. In August this year UbuntuNet Alliance formally accepted the Zimbabwe Academic Research and Education Network (ZARNet) as one of its NREN Members following an application process that started in September 2015. ZARNet was established in 1997 by the Government of Zimbabwe to provide internet connectivity to the Zimbabwean …

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At least 30 NREN and university engineers from the UbuntuNet Alliance region will benefit from two training workshops that will be held as part of the preceding events to the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 conference to be held on 3-4 November, 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda. With assistance from its partners, UbuntuNet Alliance will, during the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 week, hold a five-day Training-of-Trainers workshop for network engineers as well as three-day DevOps training for Application Engineers. According to UbuntuNet Alliance Technical Manager Joe Kimaili, the Training-of- Trainers workshop, which will be held in partnership with the Network Start-Resource Center (NSRC) and is expected to run from Saturday, October 29, 2016 to Wednesday, November 2, 2016, will target at least 15 network engineers who will be expected to initiate similar trainings in their NRENs. Parallel to this workshop will be the DeVoPs workshop for Application Engineers which UbuntuNet Alliance will hold in partnership with the CSRI and the Sci-GaIA consortium. UbuntuNet Alliance Projects Coordinator Chris Rohrer says the DevOps workshop, which is expected to run from Monday 31st October 2016 to Wednesday 2nd November 2016 will also target 15 engineers from the region. The DevOps training will be a second one for this year after the Alliance also partnered with the MAGIC project to deliver a similar workshop in Dar es Saalam, Tanzania in April this year.

Strategy / By / September 22, 2016

UbuntuNet Alliance welcomed Prof Madara Ogot of Kengineer Consulting at its Secretariat in Lilongwe, Malawi in August this year. The University of Nairobi Proffessor was at the Secretariat to lead the conclusion of the reviewing of the Alliance’s Nairobi Rolling Strategic Plan which is set to come to the end of its cycle in 2018 …

At least 30 NREN and university engineers from the UbuntuNet Alliance region will benefit from two training workshops that will be held as part of the preceding events to the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 conference to be held on 3-4 November, 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda. With assistance from its partners, UbuntuNet Alliance will, during the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 week, hold a five-day Training-of-Trainers workshop for network engineers as well as three-day DevOps training for Application Engineers. According to UbuntuNet Alliance Technical Manager Joe Kimaili, the Training-of- Trainers workshop, which will be held in partnership with the Network Start-Resource Center (NSRC) and is expected to run from Saturday, October 29, 2016 to Wednesday, November 2, 2016, will target at least 15 network engineers who will be expected to initiate similar trainings in their NRENs. Parallel to this workshop will be the DeVoPs workshop for Application Engineers which UbuntuNet Alliance will hold in partnership with the CSRI and the Sci-GaIA consortium. UbuntuNet Alliance Projects Coordinator Chris Rohrer says the DevOps workshop, which is expected to run from Monday 31st October 2016 to Wednesday 2nd November 2016 will also target 15 engineers from the region. The DevOps training will be a second one for this year after the Alliance also partnered with the MAGIC project to deliver a similar workshop in Dar es Saalam, Tanzania in April this year. Read More »

UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 to offer capacity building workshops for engineers

Capacity Building, Seminar, Training / By / September 22, 2016

At least 30 NREN and university engineers from the UbuntuNet Alliance region will benefit from two training workshops that will be held as part of the preceding events to the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 conference to be held on 3-4 November, 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda. With assistance from its partners, UbuntuNet Alliance will, during the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 …

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Register for UbuntuNet-Connect 2016

UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 22, 2016

Registration for UbuntuNet-Connect 2016, the 9th annual networking conference for UbuntuNet Alliance that will be held on 3-4 November 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda, has officially opened. Interested participants are required pay a registration fee of $200 for international participants and $100 for local participants. The fee can be paid through bank transfer or on site …

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R&E connectivity project in Central Asia rebooted*

Connectivity / By / September 22, 2016

Over 500,000 researchers, academics and students across Central Asia stand to benefit from the launch of the 3rd phase of the EU-funded Central Asia Research and Education Network (CAREN) project which resumes regional R&E connectivity after the previous project phase ended in August 2015. The contract signing between the European Commission and GÉANT at the …

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KENET boost Internet for students, making speeds 25 times faster*

Education, KENET / By / September 22, 2016

Kenya Education Network (KENET) and Liquid Telecom Kenya have migrated Kenya’s education and research institutions onto connections that are up to 25 times faster than were possible in the past. The new connections are increasing the total Internet capacity distributed to KENET member institutions using Liquid Telecom Kenya’s network from as little as 200 megabytes …

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An NREN’s positioning vis-à-vis commercial ISPs

Members / By / September 22, 2016

By Duncan Martin Inevitably the roles and activities of an NREN impact upon those of commercial service providers as participants in a competitive industry, and it is important for an NREN’s management to think about and manage the NREN’s relations with commercial ISPs. One objective is to cultivate the ISP’s understanding and respect for the …

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Dakar Declaration on Open Access gets big boost

Stories / By / September 22, 2016

The Open Access global community received a major boost in May 2016 when delegates to the fourth Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Conference on Electronic Publishing adopted the ‘Dakar Declaration on Open Access Publishing in Africa and the Global South’. The Dakar Declaration calls on scholars/researchers and students, policy …

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