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Instructional Design in E-Learning webinar excites participants

Capacity Building, Education, eLearning, Seminar, Stories / By / May 29, 2020

There has been overwhelming response and feedback from participants that attended the Instructional Design in E-Learning webinar aimed at drilling university and college lecturers and instructors on how to design effective online lessons. The webinar, organized by UbuntuNet Alliance in partnership with Makerere University, was held Wednesday, 27 May 2020 and facilitated by e-learning specialist …

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Register for the UbuntuNet Alliance, SomaliREN BigBlueButton Webinar

Capacity Building, Education, eLearning, Seminar, Stories / By / April 20, 2020

The recent outbreak of  the COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments around the globe to put in place different measures to curb the spread of the pandemic. One of these measures is the closure of teaching and learning institutions including universities. This has inadvertently halted teaching and learning in universities thereby posing a threat of disruption …

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Vice Chancellors rallied to strengthen their national research and education networks

Capacity Building, Events, Seminar, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / December 18, 2018

Vice Chancellors that attended the Vice Chancellors ICT Colloquium, the main pre-conference event to UbuntuNet-Connect 2018 in Zanzibar, Tanzania, have been asked to turn their institutions into formidable members of their National Research and Education Network (NREN)s  in order to add value to their network’s negotiating power when procuring research and education networking resources from …

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Are African NRENs facing the threat of extinction? NREN Managers discuss

Capacity Building, Seminar, Stories / By / September 7, 2017

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 representatives by Professor Madara Ogot, when he was making a presentation on sustainability and business …

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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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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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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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NUANCE – June 2013

ASREN, IST-Africa, KENET, Open Science, Seminar, TNC, UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 16, 2016

Final call! Submit a paper for the UbuntuNet-Connect 2013 conference UbuntuNet-Connect 2013, the unique annual conference that provides the appropriate forum to showcase progress in research and education networking in Africa, is this year again inviting authors to submit papers. The theme for this, the 6th UbuntuNet Alliance annual conference, is: Transforming Research and Education. …

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NUANCE – July 2010

AfPIF, Cables, Internet2, Network, Seminar / By / September 15, 2016

Fibre opportunities for Africa! Given the flurry of undersea cables being laid and the forthcoming AfricaConnect initiative, it has been decided to dedicate this issue of NUANCE to emerging fibre opportunities around and especially within Africa.  The photo shows three fibre gurus representing SEACOM, EASSy and TEAMS at the Brussels EU Africa Connect meeting on …

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NUANCE – April 2010

AfricaConnect, Cables, Capacity Building, Council of Members, Internet2, IST-Africa, Seminar / By / September 15, 2016

SEACOM Cable Cut Highlights Need for Alternate Cable Routes The honeymoon that has been enjoyed by NRENs (and other sectors) due to the reduced internet access prices ushered in by SEACOM came to a rude end when the SEACOM cable experienced a major outage along the Mediterranean section of their connectivity during the third and …

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