There definitely won’t be a better way for the global research and education community to wrap the year 2016 than to be part of the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN)’s annual conference, Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment, e-AGE, which will be held on 1-2 December 2016 in Beirut, Lebanon. ASREN, WACREN …
At least 30 NREN and university engineers from the UbuntuNet Alliance region will benefit from two training workshops that will be held as part of the preceding events to the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 conference to be held on 3-4 November, 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda. With assistance from its partners, UbuntuNet Alliance will, during the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 …
UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 week to offer capacity building workshops for engineers Read More »
The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon are teaming up to create an extensive video training library to help organizations improve the performance of their networks by deploying the perfSONAR network measurement tools and the Science DMZ network architecture. One of …
European Research and Education Network, GÉANT has been given official recognition by the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) of its role in R&E networking and invited to use its expertise to help UfM implement its digital economy agenda in the Southern Mediterranean. GÉANT’s role was confirmed in Barcelona last December at the first meeting of …
Hot on the heels of signing the AfricaConnect2 contract agreement (through GÉANT) with the European Commission for the rolling out of a research and education network for west and central Africa, the West and Central African Research and Education Network, (WACREN) has more reasons to smile after the Internet Society (ISOC) announced a $120, 000 …
Internet Society grants WACREN $120, 000 for NREN activity support Read More »
The head of the West and Central Africa Research and Education Network, (WACREN), Dr. Boubakar Barry in January 2016 paid a visit to UbuntuNet Alliance Secretariat in Lilongwe, Malawi where he familiarised with how UbuntuNet Alliance managed the rolling out of the AfricaConnect project with coordination from European Research and Education Network GÉANT, then DANTE. …
WACREN Chief, Dr. Boubakar Barry visits UbuntuNet Alliance secretariat Read More »
After 8 years of dedicated service for the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), Peter Burnett has decided to finally call time on his career come January 2016. Burnett worked as Head of Library Development for INASP for 5 years and has for the past 3 years been working for the network …
INASP’s Peter Burnett set for January 2016 retirement Read More »
Europe’s research and education collaboration network, GÉANT, has announced that it has appointed New Zealand’s National Research and Education Network (REANNZ) CEO Steve Cotter as its new CEO. The announcement, which was made on August 17, 2015, follows the restructuring of the operations of the organisation which saw DANTE Ltd and TERENA joining forces to …
Cathrin Stöver is no new name in this newsletter. From time to time we speak of her in UbuntuNet Alliance. Why? Although Cathrin Stover works with GEANT Ltd and is the Project Manager of the EU funded AfricaConnect project, which has built and continues to grow the regional component of the UbuntuNet high-speed network for …
Cathrin Stöver recognised for professionalism, multicultural skills Read More »
GÉANT, with its award-winning Research and Education network, is already at the leading edge of networking services. Today, researchers can connect to GÉANT at speeds of up to 100Gigabits per second and these ultrafast communications services are revolutionising research and education across Europe. However even these enormous speeds aren’t fast enough for the most challenging …
