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UbuntuNet Alliance signs deal with Malawi government to provide Internet connectivity to universities through the Malawi Research and Education Network

Stories / By / January 23, 2020

PRESS RELEASE 23rd January 2020, Blantyre, Malawi: UbuntuNet Alliance, the research and education network for Eastern and Southern Africa, has signed a contract agreement with the Government of Malawi through the Ministry of Civic Education and Communications Technology to provide affordable, fast and dedicated Internet connectivity and other research and education networking tools and services …

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Notice of the UbuntuNet Alliance 14th Annual General Meeting of Members

Council of Members, Events, Stories / By / January 22, 2020

UbuntuNet Alliance wishes to inform all Members that the 14th Annual General Meeting of Members (AGM) will be held on Friday, 17thth April 2020 in Kigali, Rwanda starting from 9am. The AGM is the highest governing body of UbuntuNet Alliance and is composed of NREN Members, Observer Members (from NRENs in construction), Affiliate Members and …

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CONTRACT SIGNING CEREMONY BETWEEN MALAWI GOVERNMENT AND UBUNTUNET ALLIANCE

Connectivity, Network, Stories / By / January 20, 2020

Republic of Malawi Ministry of Information, Civic Education and Communications Technology   THE PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP COMMISSION ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CONTRACT SIGNING CEREMONY in respect of  INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIVITY TO THE MALAWI RESEARCH and EDUCATION NETWORK (MAREN) The Government of Malawi through the Ministry of Information, Civic Education and Communications Technology in collaborationwith the Public Private …

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Planning for greater connectivity in an eLearning era

Stories / By / January 17, 2020

By Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti In an age of e-learning, access to a reliable and stable internet connection remains an ongoing challenge at the University of Rwanda, the country’s only public university, made up of nine campuses and 30,000 students. University World News spoke to a member of management to find out how the university is coping with …

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AfricaConnect3 project to extend pan-African high-speed internet connectivity and services for research and education

AfricaConnect, ASREN, Donors, EC, GEANT, Partners, Projects, Stories, WACREN / By / December 18, 2019

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 …

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MAREN trains public university engineers

Capacity Building, Stories, Training / By / December 5, 2019

Students and staff from public universities and colleges across Malawi should soon start enjoying improved Internet services in their campuses following a training session for network engineers from seven public institutions organised by the Malawi Research and Education Network, (MAREN) MAREN has organised the training session, which runs from 2nd to 13th December 2019 through …

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Bridging 7000+ km to teach fisheries management

Stories / By / December 20, 2019

The distance between Mogadishu in Somalia, and Tromsø in Norway is 7753 km. But despite of the vast distance separating them, Tromsø, just North of the Arctic Circle, and Mogadishu, facing the Indian Ocean, have something in common. They are both coastal towns with all the ocean’s food resources right at their feet. But while …

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Top Ten Risks for NRENs

Stories / By / November 28, 2019

By Urpo Kaila Information security is, by definition, or at least by my definition, about protecting our assets against risks. In order to do this, we must know our assets.  For National Research and Education Networks (NREN), this is often quite straightforward. NREN assets are the network, the network infrastructure with its configurations, the above-the-network …

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