The UbuntuNet Alliance family is once again happy to be associated with its Vice Chairperson and Board Member Dr. Iman Abuel Maaly Abdelrahman, who was in June this year named as the recipient of the 2015 Sudanese “Distinguished Arab Woman Engineer” by the Federation of Sudanese Engineers, the biggest professional organisation for engineers in Sudan. …
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Dr. Iman Abuel Maaly Abdelrahman has been UbuntuNet Alliance’s Vice-Chairperson for the past several years. She was the Founding CEO of SudREN, the Sudanese NREN. An Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, she is also known for her thought-provoking speeches that have always inspired …
Celebrating unforgettable contributors to UbuntuNet Alliance With Dr Iman Read More »
His bold, charismatic vision and energy for realising his UbuntuNet dream will not be forgotten. Carved in the history of UbuntuNet Alliance is Eng. Dr Tusubira’s bold dream for realising an African data communications network, the UbuntuNet. In Lilongwe on March 26th, UbuntuNet Alliance recognised Tusu for his timeless contribution to bridging Africa’s digital divide …
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UbuntuNet Alliance elected new Trustees at its 9th Annual General Meeting held on 27th March 2015 in Lilongwe, Malawi. The Alliance sees back people like Dr Iman Abuel Maaly Abdelrahman from Sudan, Kenya’s Prof. Meoli Kashorda, Prof. Dibungi Kalenda of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mr Duncan Greaves of South Africa. New blood among …
UbuntuNet Alliance has a new Chairperson Professor John Ssebuwufu, the Director for Research Programmes at the Association of African Universities (AAU) in Ghana, is now the new chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance. He succeeds Professor Zimani Kadzamira who stepped down on 12th February 2013 after serving the Alliance with distinction for two consecutive three year terms …
UbuntuNet Alliance elects new Board Members UbuntuNet Alliance held its 7thCouncil of Members Meeting on 12th April 2013 at Metropole Hotel in Kampala, Uganda and among other agenda items elected new Directors for a 2 year term and approved the Annual Report and Audited Accounts for 2012. The Council of Members is the Alliance’s Annual …
NUANCE speaks French enfin! UbuntuNet’s first six members were countries where English, French, Portuguese and Arabic were the main international languages. Given the multi-lingual nature of our Alliance community, we have long wanted to make available Alliance resources in the languages most familiar to our community. Finally, the April 2011 issue of Nuance ushers in …
Call for nominations of UbuntuNet Alliance Directors The term of office of the current UbuntuNet Alliance Management Board expires at the 5th Council of Members Meeting in April 2011 in Addis Ababa and therefore a new Board will have to be elected for a 2 year term. To this effect, we are calling for Member …
SARUA Dialogue Event: Finance and Information Communication Technology in Higher Education On 5-6 August 2010 the Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA), in collaboration with the University of Dar-es-Salaam, held a two-day Leadership Dialogue event focusing on Finance and Information Communication Technology in Higher Education. Among the impressive gathering of 64 participants from 14 countries …
Minister Awori opens UbuntuNet-Connect 2009 The Uganda Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Honourable Aggrey Awori opened the 2 day UbuntuNet-Connect 2009 on 12th November in Kampala, Uganda. The event, the biggest yet to be organised by the Alliance was hosted by RENU and brought together over 100 participants from more than 25 countries across …
