“We need to debunk the myth that Africa cannot be a source of health innovation,” says Kelly Chibale, Director of the Drug Discovery and Development Centre at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He believes there should be more African-led drug research so that the continent is not just seen as a place where …
First African anti-malaria drug to enter clinical trial Read More »
Three Horizon 2020 projects focusing on e-infrastructures for research and education in Africa kicked off on 1st May 2015. These are TANDEM, Sci-GaIA and MAGIC and both WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance are partners in all the three projects. Let us go through them one by one: TANDEM: TransAfrican Network Development is coordinated by the French …
Three H2020 projects kick off to support Africa’s e-Infrastructures Read More »
The Information society in Europe, Asia and South America and other world regions is advancing by the day. Whereby the creation, distribution use and application of information is a central aspect of daily life be in political, economic and cultural aspects; all these are already leveraging on Information Technologies. Africa is lagging behind mainly due …
Strong NRENs will grow Africa’s Information Society Read More »
Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …
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Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …
Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …
AfricaConnect2 to expand connectivity across Africa Read More »
The eleventh edition of the IST-Africa conference series, IST-Africa 2016, was held in Durban, South Africa from 11-13 May 2016 with organisers and delegates at the conference placing more emphasis on the value of open innovation and collaboration among researchers. The conference opened on Wednesday, 11 May, with a high level panel discussion whose participants …
IST-Africa 2016 preaches open innovation, collaboration Read More »
PRESS RELEASE Authors are invited to submit abstracts for presentation at UbuntuNet-Connect 2015, the 8th Annual Conference of the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking. The UbuntuNet-Connect series of conferences has been held for the past seven years and is regarded as one of the premier conferences in Africa. This year the conference will …
Press Release: Call for Papers for UbuntuNet-Connect 2015 released Read More »
Eng. Dr Francis “Tusu” Tusubira, former CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance received the Network Information and Infrastructure Service Award (NI&I) Service Award 2015. This was announced on 4 June 2015 at the African Internet Summit in Tunis, Tunisia. Tusu, as he is popularly known in the community, holds a PhD (Southampton, UK), an M.Sc.E (New Brunswick, …
The long awaited Proceedings and Report of the 7th UbuntuNet Alliance annual conference has been published on the UbuntuNet Alliance website and are available for download. The proceedings include 31 full text papers presented at the UbuntuNet-Connect 2014, which was held in Lusaka, Zambia on 13-14 November 2014. Download your copy for free now! As you …
