UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce its 15th annual Research and Education Networking conference, UbuntuNet Connect 2022, which shall be a hybrid event in the capital city of Botswana, Gaborone, on 24th and 25th November 2022. The event shall be hosted by the NREN of Botswana, BotsREN. The theme for is Redesigning the Digitalized African …
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The African Group on Earth Observation (AfriGEO) community, a member of the global Group on Earth Observation (GEO) says it expects the AfricaConnect3 project, a Pan-African project aimed at creating an internet network for research and education across Africa, to boost internet connectivity in the community’s sites in Africa. GEO is a unique global network …
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PRESS RELEASE 18th December 2019/Brussels, Belgium Following the success of predecessor projects ‘AfricaConnect’ and ‘AfricaConnect2’, Africa’s three regional Research and Education Networks (RENs) UbuntuNet Alliance, West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) and the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), in partnership with Europe’s leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services GÉANT, have …
29 June 2018/ Lilongwe, Malawi and Mogadishu, Somalia UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking is pleased to announce that it has successfully connected SomaliREN, the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Somalia to the UbuntuNet network, the data network for NRENs in Eastern and Southern Africa under the €26.6m European Commission co-funded AfricaConnect2 …
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 …
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 …
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Kenya and the Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative in Nigeria are among the very first organizations in Africa to begin use of DataCite Digital Object Identifier (DOI) prefixes. The partnership with the Sci-GaIA project and the Conference of Italian University Rectors will help the research organizations …
North and South join forces to promote Open Science in Africa Read More »
The 6th workshop of the EU-funded Sci-GaIA project on “e-Infrastructures and Open Science in support of Public Health” will be held on the 8th of February 2017 at the Conference Centre of the Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop is hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology of the Kenyatta University, which …
In November 2015, UbuntuNet Alliance CEO, Dr. Pascal Hoba, signed the AfricaConnect2 project contract for Cluster 1 during the UbuntuNet-Connect 2015 conference in Maputo, Mozambique. Shortly after, Steve Cotter, CEO of GEANT signed two contracts for Clusters 2 and 3 of the same project for West & Central Africa and North Africa respectively. Since then, …
The months of September and October promise to be busy and eventful ones for the Middleware for Collaborative Applications and Global Virtue Communities, (MAGIC), one of the European Union Co-funded Horizon 2020 projects which UbuntuNet Alliance is an implementing partner. In these two months, MAGIC will offer Global Health practitioners and others with health-related interests …
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