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Horizon 2020 Projects enhance collaboration among partners

MAGIC / By / September 21, 2016

The three Horizon 2020 projects which the UbuntuNet Alliance is a partner are helping in fostering collaboration among implementing partners. The projects are the Middleware for Collaborative Applications and Global Virtual Communities (MAGIC)  being coordinated by the Latin American regional REN RedCLARA; Energizing Scientific Endeavour through Science Gateways and e-Infrastructures in Africa (Sci-GaIA), coordinated by …

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UbuntuNet Alliance gears up for AfricaConnect2

AfricaConnect / By / September 21, 2016

UbuntuNet Alliance, one of the coordinators of the soon to be signed European Union funded AfricaConnect2 project, which aims to expand connectivity across the African continent, is already rolling up its sleeves in readiness for the rolling out of the project. On 4-5 August 2015, the Alliance held a Price and Costing Model Workshop in …

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African Union project helps set up IXPs in six African countries

Projects / By / September 21, 2016

Six African countries have set up Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), after two years of the African Union’s African Internet Exchange System (AXIS) project, managed by the Internet Society. Under the project, the Internet Society was to provide technical training to AU member countries. The initial engagement involved building a local stakeholder driven process to start …

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Three H2020 projects kick off to support Africa’s e-Infrastructures

Projects / By / September 21, 2016

Three Horizon 2020 projects focusing on e-infrastructures for research and education in Africa kicked off on 1st May 2015. These are TANDEM, Sci-GaIA and MAGIC and both WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance are partners in all the three projects. Let us go through them one by one: TANDEM: TransAfrican Network Development is coordinated by the French …

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AfricaConnect2 to expand connectivity across Africa

AfricaConnect, Connectivity / By / September 21, 2016

Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …

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AfricaConnect, Connectivity / By / September 21, 2016

Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …

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AfricaConnect2 to expand connectivity across Africa

AfricaConnect, Connectivity / By / September 21, 2016

Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …

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UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 goes to Uganda, UbuntuNet-Connect 2015 proceedings and report published

AfricaConnect, UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 22, 2016

After holding a successful UbuntuNet-Connect 2015, organised jointly with the Mozambique Ministry of Science and Technology, Higher Education and Vocational Training and the Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet), and hosted by the latter in Maputo, Mozambique in November last year, UbuntuNet Alliance has now announced that the ninth edition of the annual research and …

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MAGIC launches Global Science Communities

MAGIC / By / September 22, 2016

February 2016 was a month of substantial progress for the Middleware for Collaborative Applications and Global Virtue Communities (MAGIC) project as this was the month the project held first virtual meetings of its four Global Science Communities. The MAGIC project, which is being led by RedCLARA with partnership from Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean, West …

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WACREN annual conference brings MAGIC, TANDEM and Sci-GaIA Projects under one roof

MAGIC, Sci-GAIA, TANDEM, WACREN / By / September 22, 2016

A second joint TANDEM, MAGIC and Sci-GaIA workshop on ‘Promotion of Open Science in Africa’ was  held in Senegal, Dakar on March 15, 2016. The workshop came as  one of the pre-conference events of the second annual conference of West African Countries Research and Education Network (WACREN) which held on 17-18 March 2016 under the …

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