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Lets launch! AfricaConnect2 upgraded UbuntuNet network to be launched at UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 in Madagascar

In November 2015, officials from the European Commission and UbuntuNet Alliance converged at the European Union Delegation offices in Maputo, Mozambique to sign the €10 million AfricaConnect2 Cluster 1 (Eastern and Southern Africa) project contract agreement between the two organisations – one of the two contracts for the €26.6 million pan-African project. Fast forward to …

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Zumba session at UbuntuNet-Connect 2019, bring your costume!

Coming to UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 and worried about lack of fitness activities whilst there? Worry no more! Organisers of the conference have planned a one hour Zumba session for participants on Thursday, 31st October 2019 from 5:30 to 6:30 am at the Carlton Hotel. The session is absolutely free and open to all participants who would …

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And the venue for UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 is…Carlton Hotel!

UbuntuNet Alliance and the Research and Education Network for Academic and Learning Activities, iRENALA, the NREN of Madagascar and the host of UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 are pleased to announce that the flagship conference will be held at the 5-Star Carlton Hotel in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The conference, which will be held on 31st October – 1st November …

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Register for UbuntuNet-Connect 2019

In a bid to speed up the registration process and verification of participants at UbuntuNet-Connect 2019, organisers of the conference are calling on all prospective participants to pay their registration fee before travelling to Antananarivo. Participants are being asked to register early and pay their registration fee via bank transfer as there is no planned …

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UbuntuNet-Connect 2019: Be one of the sponsors; Call for Sponsorship out

A rare chance to have access to our audience of over 250 participants drawn from the global research and education community has presented itself to companies and organizations in the telecommunications and research and education networking industry. By being one of the sponsors of our annual conference for this year, UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 happening on 31st …

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UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 goes to Antananarivo, Madagascar, Call for Abstracts now open

The wait is finally over. This year’s edition of UbuntuNet Alliance series of networking conferences, UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 will be held on Thursday, 31st October and Friday, 1st November 2019 in Antananarivo, the Capital of Madagascar. To be held under the theme: NRENs: Facilitating Research and Education Collaboration in the Digital Space, the 13th edition of …

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Call For Abstracts: UbuntuNet-Connect 2019, 31st October – 1st November 2019, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Authors are invited to submit abstracts of papers for presentation consideration for UbuntuNet-Connect 2019, which will be held on 31st October- 1st November 2019 in Antananarivo,Madagascar. The theme for the conference this year is NRENs: Facilitating Research and Education Collaboration in the Digital Space.” The conference will be hosted by the Research and Education Network …

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Let’s get SMART! African universities agree on relevance of digital transformation at UbuntuNet-Connect 2018

The 11th annual networking conference of UbuntuNet Alliance was held on 22-23 November 2018 in Zanzibar, Tanzania and delegates to the gathering were unanimous in their consensus on the need to fast track the digitalization of their entities into SMART institutions. This was after exhaustive discussions on presentations from co-located meetings and from the main …

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Vice Chancellors rallied to strengthen their national research and education networks

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

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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