by Hastings Ndebvu | Feb 5, 2018 | Capacity Building, Members, RENU, Stories
The National Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU) has underlined the intent to intensify its engineer capacity building programme in the year 2018 after releasing an impressive schedule that will see the NREN conduct at least 7 training and Direct...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Nov 30, 2017 | Capacity Building, Stories, Training
At least 33 engineers from UbuntuNet Alliance member NRENs benefited from hands-on training workshops in Advanced Routing and Service Deployment at the just ended UbuntuNet-Connect 2017 week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Eighteen network engineers went through a four-day...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Apr 1, 2017 | Capacity Building, Seminar, Stories
During the UbuntuNet Alliance organised NREN CEOs Indaba held in Livingstone, Zambia the question: ‘Are African NRENs at a risk of becoming extinct just like Dinosaurs?” attracted a long and interesting discussion. The question was posed to NREN managers and...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Nov 1, 2016 | Capacity Building, NSRC, Partners, Stories
Network engineers travel to far-flung corners of the world to help build up research and education networks in places like Guam, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, and Ghana, India, and Ecuador. UC IT professionals have the chance to join them in the field by volunteering with...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Oct 1, 2016 | Capacity Building, Research, Stories
Imagine 16 leading research universities in Africa putting together a pool of researchers with vast expertise, knowledge and resources to help a single country or agency on the continent undertake a research project in a specialised area. Or Picture the African...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Oct 1, 2016 | Capacity Building, eduroam, Stories
The Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet) should soon be able to assemble its own Identity Federation and deploy eduroam, thanks to a project that will see the NREN acquiring knowledge on how to implement the two initiatives from the Brazilian National...
