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eduID.africa advances federated identity management in the education ecosystem in Africa

eduID, eLearning, Members / By / March 6, 2023

Our identity is our uniqueness. Online identity and its management are vital to global migration to digital infrastructure, and citizens can only achieve an effective modern society with efficient governance and administration of digital identities. In the education landscape, digital identity has become increasingly important as technology has transformed how students learn and interact with …

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eduroam Reaches New Heights – a new record of 6.4 billion authentications in 2022

eduroam, Members, Partners, Services / By / March 2, 2023

eduroam in Africa has been on an uptrend since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world. A recent poll has revealed the usage of the service has reached a global all time high of 6.4 billion. Our Community has made a significant contribution to this and deserves applauding. With member NRENs like the RENU , who …

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eduID.africa Joins eduGAIN

ASREN, eduID, Partners, WACREN / By / October 31, 2022

Students, researchers, scientists and educators across Africa’s research and education landscape can now have secure and trusted access to global online resources as the eduID.africa Catch-All Federation joins the eduGAIN interfederation.  eduID.africa is the identity and access management framework implemented in the AfricaConnect3 project by the three regional research networks to fast-track the rollout of …

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RENU Launch eduroam on the GO

eduroam, Members, RENU, Services / By / September 23, 2022

On the 8th day of September 2022, the Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) celebrated two years of Metro eduroam. The occasion was marked by the launch of an innovation that may revolutionize eduroam worldwide, eduroam on the GO!  This is a pocket-sized routing device developed to allow researchers, students and university staff to …

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Webinar Series 2022-5: Going Beyond Connectivity (UbuntuNet Alliance Services)

Services, Webinar Series / By / August 31, 2022

Guided by Regional Research and Education Networks (RRENs), National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) have primarily offered connectivity as the main service to universities (students and staff) and researchers. However, recent times have necessitated the introduction of value-added services on top of Connectivity. This webinar was held as a consultative event with members of the …

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RENU Makes Connectivity Accessible to all Through Metro eduroam. Interview with Hellen Nakawungu.

eduroam, Interview, Members, RENU, Services / By / December 13, 2022

The Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) began the rollout of eduroam in 2020. Since then, RENU has successfully deployed over 500 eduroam hotspots in across the country to the benefit of students and staff via connecting 61 Educational institutions from 42 service locations. Such exceptional progress cannot go unnoticed. We caught up with the Systems and Software …

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Strengthening the Community Through NREN Twinning

Members, Services, Stories / By / December 13, 2022

Development inequalities among the National Regional and Education Networks (NRENs) has posed a big challenge in creating an enabling environment where both vertical and horizontal collaborations can be fostered.  To address this, the Alliance is embarking on creation of a community of NRENs that can actively interact more through capacity building and advocacy. Unfortunately, not …

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UbuntuNet Alliance moves to address eduroam gap in Southern and Eastern Africa

eduroam, Services, Stories / By / September 17, 2020

Lack of awareness, limited capacity of technical personnel and absence of robust campus WIFI networks have been cited as some of the challenges limiting the roll out of eduroam in many universities and research centers in the UbuntuNet Alliance membership region. This has been revealed in a recent eduroam baseline survey which UbuntuNet Alliance undertook …

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RENU Deploys 300 eduroam hotspots for off-campus Internet access

eduroam, Members, RENU, Services, Stories / By / September 17, 2020

Students, researchers and staff of learning institutions connected to the Research and Education Network  for Uganda (RENU) will now be able to access their institution Internet beyond their campuses after the NREN introduced the metro deployment of eduroam to enable users connect to the wireless network while working away from their institutions.   RENU unveiled …

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