Connectivity

ITU Is Worried About High Cost of Broadband in Africa*

Connectivity, Interview, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

Technological advancements may have been achieved in leaps and bounds in recent times beyond expectations. But the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for the Information and Communications Technology industry, is disturbed that regions such as Africa still lack access to broadband, and where available it remains too expensive. Ahead of the  …

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Research and education internet networks on rise in Africa*

Connectivity, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

Nine African countries have successfully established a sustainable National Research and Education Network promoting internet access to global educational resources and facilitating interaction at national and regional levels among universities and research institutions – boosting research productivity over the last decade. Access to state-of-the-art broadband networks at affordable prices has made this possible. But more …

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Internet use still low in Africa – Report

Connectivity, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

Despite recent improvements in infrastructure and affordability, internet adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa is not growing rapidly, a report says. The report says that the continent’s internet adoption isn’t growing at a speedy rate because potential users do not always find the internet relevant enough. According to Bastiaan Quast, co-author of the report and economics fellow …

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UbuntuNet Alliance partners Indiana University and GÉANT to co-lead a $3.25M grant to Improve research collaborations between Europe, Africa, and the US

Connectivity, Network / By / September 6, 2017

UbuntuNet Alliance has welcomed with open arms its role as one of the co-lead partners of the Networks for European, American and African Research (NEAAR) project alongside Indiana University of the United States of America and the pan European Research and Education Network, GÉANT. The NEEAR Project is a $3.25M grant which has been awarded …

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R&E connectivity project in Central Asia rebooted*

Connectivity / By / September 22, 2016

Over 500,000 researchers, academics and students across Central Asia stand to benefit from the launch of the 3rd phase of the EU-funded Central Asia Research and Education Network (CAREN) project which resumes regional R&E connectivity after the previous project phase ended in August 2015. The contract signing between the European Commission and GÉANT at the …

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Connectivity boost accelerates EU-Japanese science collaborations*

Connectivity / By / September 22, 2016

Over 50 million researchers, academics and students across Europe and Japan are set to benefit from a direct 20Gbps (gigabit per second) connectivity injection into the pan-European GÉANT network, celebrated at the launch event of the upgraded Japanese Science Information Network (SINET5) in Tokyo last month. The capacity boost came in response to the increasing …

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African NRENs and their role in addressing financial stress of universities and research institutions

Education, Members, Pricing / By / September 22, 2016

That many African higher learning and research institutions are facing funding problems is not news.  Most universities across Africa are struggling to operate to their full potential due to underfunding, a development that has in some cases forced universities to resort to hiking fees already considered high for many an African student.  The raising of  …

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From an end user’s mouth: Zambian PhD student explains how she benefited from a research and education network

Education, Network / By / September 22, 2016

Lydia Chabala, an soil scientist from Zambia can still not predict the amount of time and money it would have taken and cost her to complete her PhD research if she had not been introduced to the Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN)’s high speed internet connectivity. Chabala’s research focused on soil-environmental modeling for digital …

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ZAMREN demonstrates NREN meaningful synergies with public and private connectivity infrastructure owners

Connectivity, ZAMREN / By / September 22, 2016

One of the prominent challenges most African National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) are struggling to deal with is the lack of ownership of connectivity infrastructure mainly due to funding hiccups. Most of these NRENs are however operating alongside public and private telecommunication companies and organisations that own infrastructure such as fiber optic  backbones that …

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Sida supports regional and international connectivity for universities in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda

Connectivity / By / September 21, 2016

UbuntuNet Alliance has received a grant of SEK4.95 million (about USD580,000) from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to support increased regional and international connectivity targeting universities and research institutions in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Sida has a long history of building research capacity and improving regional and international research collaboration in Africa. In …

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