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 …
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 …
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 …
Webinar Series 2022-5: Going Beyond Connectivity (UbuntuNet Alliance Services) Read More »
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 …
UbuntuNet Alliance’s 3rd Webinar for the 2022 Series provides an overview of the Cloud Landscape and Global Trends as well as presentations by ZAMREN (Zambia), RENU (Uganda) and KENET (KENYA) on their cloud deployment experiences.
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 …
Strengthening the Community Through NREN Twinning Read More »
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 …
UbuntuNet Alliance moves to address eduroam gap in Southern and Eastern Africa Read More »
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 …
RENU Deploys 300 eduroam hotspots for off-campus Internet access Read More »
During June the City of Cape Town and the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET) turned on the eduroam WiFi service in 57 of Cape Town’s public libraries. eduroam is a wireless roaming service that provides free Internet access to the research and education community globally. This initiative means students and staff …
TENET Deploys eduroam in 57 public libraries in Cape Town, South Africa Read More »
The Ethiopian Education and Research Network (EthERNet), is set to become the country’s first government institution to provide a new cloud service to its members as it plan to launch an education cloud service that will be available for public universities in the country in the next two months. The NREN, a member of UbuntuNet …
EthERNet set to introduce a new cloud service for member institutions Read More »
