#ScholarAfrica: Promoting the Discoverability of Africa Scholarship By Michelle Willmers Curate to participate! This was one of the central messages emerging from the ‘Discoverability of African Scholarship Online’ workshop hosted by the OpenUCT Initiative in Nairobi on 10–11 March 2014. Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation, the workshop brought together 25 representatives from African research agencies …
Call for Abstracts: UbuntuNet-Connect 2014 – Infrastructure – Innovation – Inclusion Submit an abstract for the 7th UbuntuNet-Connect 2014!. The conference will be held in Lusaka, Zambia from 11 to 12 November 2014 and will be hosted by Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN), the NREN of Zambia. The theme for this year’s conference is …
Proceedings for UbuntuNet-Connect 2013 now available online The Proceedings and report of the 6th UbuntuNet Alliance annual conference is now out and available online. These are papers which were presented at the UbuntuNet-Connect 2013, which took place at Lemigo Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda from 14 to 15 November 2013. The proceedings include 21 full text …
The very end of the beginning: Margaret moves on By Margaret Ngwira When we close for the Christmas recess, I end my time with UbuntuNet Alliance. It is with satisfaction that I go, believing that it is the right time and that this is the very end of the beginning of the Alliance. Looking back …
Rwanda hosts a successful UbuntuNet-Connect 2013 Transforming education and research was the highly relevant theme of UbuntuNet-Connect 2013 held at Lemigo Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda on 14-15 November 2013. The 6th in the series, the conference was hosted by one of the founding NRENs of the UbuntuNet Alliance, RwEdNet, the Rwandan NREN, with great support …
UbuntuNet Alliance has a new Chairperson Professor John Ssebuwufu, the Director for Research Programmes at the Association of African Universities (AAU) in Ghana, is now the new chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance. He succeeds Professor Zimani Kadzamira who stepped down on 12th February 2013 after serving the Alliance with distinction for two consecutive three year terms …
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. …
Call for papers: UbuntuNet-Connect 2013: Transforming education and research UbuntuNet Alliance is calling for abstracts of papers to be presented at the UbuntuNet-Connect 2013 Conference. The Conference will be held in Kigali among the green hills of Rwanda from 14-15 November 2013. The theme of the conference is Transforming Education and Research, and the papers …
iRENALA joins UbuntuNet Alliance The year 2012 ended with exciting news in the UbuntuNet Alliance community when iRENALA, the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Madagascar was accepted as a Member NREN of UbuntuNet Alliance on 31st December 2012. The coming in of iRENALA, which stands for ‘Research and Education Network for Academic and …
Another year ends – thank you all! The year 2012 has been hectic, bringing with it moments of happiness and sadness in the UbuntuNet Alliance. One of the achievements in this year has been the launch of the network, UbuntuNet, which will provide high speed internet connectivity to the member National Research Education Networks (NRENs), …
