Capacity Building

Brazilian NREN aids MoRENet in Identity Federation, eduroam set up

Capacity Building, eduroam, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

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 Research and Education Network (RNP). Presently, MoRENet has already signed eduroam compliance and …

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UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 week to offer capacity building workshops for engineers

NSRC, Stories, Training, UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 19, 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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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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UbuntuNet Alliance Annual General Meeting of Members week to offer FedApps, NREN Managers training workshops

Capacity Building, Council of Members / By / September 21, 2016

UbuntuNet Alliance 10th Annual General Meeting of Members (AGMM) week  which will be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in April, 2016 will, among other events, include a Federated Applications training workshop for system engineers as well as a capacity building seminar for NREN Managers and Senior University Leaders from the UbuntuNet Alliance membership region. …

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RENU wraps up 2015 with 4th network engineer training workshop

Capacity Building, RENU, Training / By / September 21, 2016

The Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) wrapped up the year 2015 with a fourth network engineering training workshop of the year that saw 24 network engineering personnel from the NREN’s member institutions benefiting. The training, which was held at the Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi Campus under the theme: “Campus Network Security.” took place …

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Calling for applications for the Sci-GaIA Winter Online School

Training / By / September 21, 2016

If you are a network engineer or a systems administrator or an IT expert from the African research and education community and are interested in Science Gateways, then you stand a great chance of developing and enhancing your skills of integrating scientific applications in the field by enrolling  for the upcoming Sci-GaIA Winter School Online set to …

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Training the Trainer: Network engineer trainer Patrick Okui explains relevance of UbuntuNet Alliance, NSRC training workshops

Capacity Building, Seminar, Training / By / September 21, 2016

If by any chance you happened to be in the city of Maputo, Mozambique, VIP Grand Hotel to be specific, during week beginning 15th November, 2015 and you run into Patrick Okui from Uganda, you would be forgiven for thinking he is just another young man passing hours by attending another function at the hotel. …

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RENU in engineer capacity building workshop

Capacity Building, RENU / By / September 21, 2016

At least 25 network engineers from 22 member institutions of the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU) are expected to participate in a one-week wireless networking training workshop expected to take place in the country in September 2015. The workshop, which will be held from 14 – 18 September 2015 at the Uganda Management …

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UbuntuNet Alliance CEO attends AfREN, Global Research and Education Network CEO Forum, Connect2Connect meetings

Capacity Building / By / September 21, 2016

The past two months of June and July 2015 were busy ones for UbuntuNet Alliance CEO; Dr. Pascal Hoba represented the Alliance at a number of important research and education networking forums. First on this busy schedule was the AfREN meeting that was held on June 1 in Tunis, Tunisia coordinated by UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN …

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The Government and the NREN: Reviewing the relationship and its impact on NREN performance

Capacity Building, Seminar / By / September 22, 2016

The agenda of the National Workshop for the Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET) the NREN of Tanzania, held on 27 April 2016 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania risked becoming stagnant halfway through the workshop after delegates spent more time than intended, trying to understand the relationship that exists between TERNET and the Higher Education …

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