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RENU Shares Best Practices for NREN Communications in Recent Webinar.

Capacity Building, Events, Members, RENU / By / May 29, 2023

From internal coordination to external engagements, NREN communications and marketing play a vital role in helping NRENs grow and achieve sustainability. The wonderful work that NRENs do, amplified by vibrant communications has reaped significant benefits for some NRENs such as RENU. Through the webinar “Harnessing the potential of NREN communication”, the communications lead from RENU, …

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UbuntuNet-Connect 2023 Set to be Hosted by RENU in Uganda

Members, RENU, UbuntuNet Connect / By / November 30, 2022

The Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) was officially announced as the host of the 16th UbuntuNet Alliance conference in a wonderful closing ceremony of the successful UbuntuNet-Connect 2022 conference. Hosted by the Botswana Research and Education Network (BotsREN), UbuntuNet-Connect 2022 was a resounding success. Bringing together 173 practitioners in research and education from …

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RENU Conducts Direct Engineering Assistance (DEA) at University of St. Joseph (USJ), Mbarara.

Members, RENU / By / October 4, 2022

As part of their annual capacity building programme the Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) are carrying out direct engineering assistance at the University of St. Joseph (USJ), Mbarara. This is the second DEA being carried out this year with the first one being carried out at Equatorial University of Science and Technology (EQUSaT). …

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RENU Launch eduroam on the GO

eduroam, Members, RENU, Services / By / September 23, 2022

On the 8th day of September 2022, the Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) celebrated two years of Metro eduroam. The occasion was marked by the launch of an innovation that may revolutionize eduroam worldwide, eduroam on the GO!  This is a pocket-sized routing device developed to allow researchers, students and university staff to …

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RENU Makes Connectivity Accessible to all Through Metro eduroam. Interview with Hellen Nakawungu.

eduroam, Interview, Members, RENU, Services / By / December 13, 2022

The Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) began the rollout of eduroam in 2020. Since then, RENU has successfully deployed over 500 eduroam hotspots in across the country to the benefit of students and staff via connecting 61 Educational institutions from 42 service locations. Such exceptional progress cannot go unnoticed. We caught up with the Systems and Software …

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Interview with Hellen Nakawungu, Systems Engineer at RENU

Interview, Members, RENU, Stories / By / March 2, 2021

As part of the #womeninSTEM campaign, we talk to Hellen Nakawungu, Systems Engineer at the Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU). Hellen has worked in the Technical Department of RENU transitioning through different levels. She is currently the Head of Department, Systems and Software and the Coordinator for the Cyber Security Team. She is a computer scientist …

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RENU introduces Zero-rated Mobile Access

Members, RENU, Stories / By / November 11, 2020

Students and staff of RENU member institutions can now access their institutions’ websites and e-learning portals without loading a data bundle on selected mobile service provider networks. The development is a latest innovation from the National Research and Education Network of Uganda which recently unveiled the metro eduroam initiative aimed at expanding the reach of …

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UbuntuNet Alliance holds second NREN cloud webinar

Capacity Building, Members, RENU, Stories, Training / By / October 5, 2020

At least 20 systems engineers from Eastern and Southern Africa participated in the latest NREN Cloud Webinar hosted by UbuntuNet Alliance in partnership with the Research and Education Network of Uganda, RENU. The webinar on Building an OpenStack Cloud using Ansible was held on Tuesday, 29th September 2020. It was the second in the series …

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RENU Deploys 300 eduroam hotspots for off-campus Internet access

eduroam, Members, RENU, Services, Stories / By / September 17, 2020

Students, researchers and staff of learning institutions connected to the Research and Education Network  for Uganda (RENU) will now be able to access their institution Internet beyond their campuses after the NREN introduced the metro deployment of eduroam to enable users connect to the wireless network while working away from their institutions.   RENU unveiled …

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