by Hastings Ndebvu | Dec 18, 2019 | AfricaConnect, ASREN, Donors, EC, GEANT, Partners, Projects, Stories, WACREN
From left: WACREN CEO, Dr. Boubakar Barry; UbuntuNet Alliance CEO, Eng. Dr. Matthews Mtumbuka; European Commission Head of Unit- Strategic Partnerships, EU DG DEVCO, Domenico Rossa and ASREN Co-Managing Director, Yousef Torman sign the AfricaConnect contract agreement...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Mar 29, 2019 | Partners, Stories, WACREN
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...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Feb 1, 2018 | AfricaConnect, Press Release, Stories, WACREN
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...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Jan 1, 2016 | WACREN
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)...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Jan 1, 2016 | WACREN
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...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Mar 1, 2015 | WACREN
The 2nd annual WACREN conference for research and education (R&E) networking took place in Dakar, Senegal on March 17th-18th following three days of intensive workshops promoting e-infrastructure, federated identity and Open Science in Africa. Hosted by the...
