The week of 11 to 15 March accommodated plenty of room for a variety of works to set off from librarians and NRENs collaborating on repositories during the LIBSENSE workshop to AfricaConnect2 coordination meetings to knowledge exchange during the annual WACREN conference. This year, Ghanian NREN GARNET hosted the conference in the capital city of …
UbuntuNet Alliance is excited to join the global research and education community in congratulating its long time ally, GÉANT’s Chief Collaborations Officer, Cathrin Stover on her recent appointment as Vice Chair of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Executive Board. Ms Stover was appointed to the new role in November 2018 at the launch of …
H.E. Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) and H.E. Prof. Mohamed Khalfaoui, Director of Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST) have signed an agreement under which ASREN will provide a high capacity connection between the Moroccan National Research and Education Network (MARWAN) and the pan-European …
GÉANT is delighted to confirm Erik Huizer in his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) following his appointment in July 2017 on an interim basis. Christian Grimm, Chair of the Board of Directors commented, “We are very pleased to announce that the GÉANT Board of Directors has unanimously agreed to appoint Erik Huizer as new permanent …
The EU-funded AfricaConnect2 project has just announced that, following the call for tenders to connect West and Central (W&C) Africa published back in June 2016, GÉANT has awarded a 15-year contract to MainOne for connectivity services. By signing the contract through AfricaConnect2, WACREN, the regional Research and Education Network in West and Central Africa, will …
RedCLARA has announced Luis Eliecer Cadenas Marin, co-founder of Venezuelan NREN REACCIUN, as its new Executive Director. The announcement was made at the opening ceremony of the TICAL2017 Conference, in the city of San José, Costa Rica, earlier this month. The new Executive Director assumes the position previously held by Florencio Utreras, who served as …
The Internet2 board of trustees in April announced the appointment of Howard Pfeffer as its new president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to replace incumbent president and CEO H. David Lambert, effective June 12, 2017. A press release from the network said Pfeffer brings to Internet2 over 30 years of experience in networking, systems and …
Higher education benefits from investments in infrastructure, journals, books and data. Over the years the investment into the development of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) across Africa has revolutionised research and education’s access to services but often it is the last kilometre of access from the NREN network to the campus that proves to …
The Regional Research and Education Network (RREN) for Latin America, RedCLARA has achieved another great milestone after it announced that it is now peering with Google effective March 1, 2017. The announcement made on the RRENs website means that connected NREN members and Entrepreneurial Associates can benefit from the service, bringing benefits to academics and …
Network engineers travel to far-flung corners of the world to help build up research and education networks in places like Guam, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, and Ghana, India, and Ecuador. UC IT professionals have the chance to join them in the field by volunteering with the University of Oregon-based Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), one …
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