Events

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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Your research outputs are lamps, let them shine! NRENs encouraged to share and market their networking and research activities

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

Despite the numerous research and education activities and collaborations happening in universities and National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) from the UbuntuNet Alliance region, NREN managers have agreed that their networks are not doing enough to publicise and market their activities. This is why UbuntuNet-Connect 2018 featured a Research and Education Communications and Visibility Workshop …

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State University of Zanzibar shines in drone mapping programme

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / December 18, 2018

In what would be described as a perfect send-off, the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) on Friday, 22nd November 2018, the last day of UbuntuNet-Connect 2018, treated conference attendees to a tour at the institution, where the delegates were delighted to appreciate the university’s Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) mapping Initiative which is helping the Governments …

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IST-Africa 2019 Call for Papers Deadline 21 December 2018

Events, IST-Africa, Stories / By / December 18, 2018

Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission, Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology and IEEE Kenya Section, IST-Africa 2019 (Nairobi, Kenya, May) is the fourteenth in an annual series of Ministerial level Technology Research Conferences. IST-Africa provides a platform in Africa to strengthen ICT-enabled …

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Tanzania Minister of Education, Science and Technology Prof. Joyce Ndalichako opens UbuntuNet-Connect 2018 in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / December 18, 2018

Minister of Education, Science and Technology for Tanzania Prof. Joyce Ndalichako on 22nd November 2018 officially opened UbuntuNet-Connect 2018, the 11th annual networking conference of UbuntuNet Alliance at Hotel Verde in Zanzibar, Tanzania with a commitment from the Tanzanian government to support the Tanzania Education and Research Network, (TERNET) in its quest to lower bandwidth …

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Attending UbuntuNet-Connect 2018 in Zanzibar? Then Register now!

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 11, 2018

  Registration has opened for participants wishing to attend the 11th conference of UbuntuNet Alliance, the UbuntuNet-Connect 2018 conference which will be held at the Hotel Verde Zanzibar in Zanzibar, Tanzania on 22-23 November 2018 under the theme: Towards Smart Universities: Services that Matter. Among other activities, over 30 researchers from around the globe are …

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Submit an Abstract for UbuntuNet-Connect 2018, 22-23 November 2018, Zanzibar!

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / May 17, 2018

UbuntuNet-Connect, the annual networking conference of UbuntuNet Alliance is back! After holding the flagship event in the Administrative city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last year, UbuntuNet Alliance this year takes the premier conference to the exotic Island of Zanzibar.  UbuntuNet-Connect 2018, the 11th   edition of the series of the annual event, will be held on …

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12th Council of Members’ Meeting 27 April 2018, Windhoek, Namibia

Council of Members, Events, Stories / By / April 4, 2018

The Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance, Professor Stephen Simukanga is pleased to announce that the 12th UbuntuNet alliance Annual General Meeting of Members (AGM) will be held in Windhoek, Namibia on Friday, 27 April 2018 starting from 9am. The Meeting will be hosted by Xnet Development Trust, the Namibian Research and Education Network. The Annual General …

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Proceedings and Report of UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 published

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / February 5, 2018

UbuntuNet Alliance has published the full Proceedings and Report of its 9th Annual Conference, UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 that was held on 2-3 November 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda. The proceedings, which are now available on the UbuntuNet Alliance repository for downloading, include 18 full text papers that were presented at the two-day conference in the east African …

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ASREN Gears up for e-Age 2017

e-AGE, Events, Stories / By / December 1, 2017

Cairo, Egypt is the next destination for the research and education networking community, which is expected to converge in the city on 3-4 December 2017 for the Arab States Education Network (ASREN) 7th International Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment, e-AGE 2017. e-AGE 2017 will be held at the League of Arab …

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