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GÉANT is hiring: Advocacy and Donor Engagement Officer – Africa

GEANT, Partners, Stories / By Hastings Ndebvu / February 6, 2020 February 6, 2020

Location: Amsterdam or Cambridge Closing Date: February 24, 2020 In this varied and exciting role you will be responsible for the close collaboration with GÉANT’s three AfricaConnect3 regional partners. AfricaConnect3 is a four-year project that started in November 2019 and builds on the predecessor project AfricaConnect2. AfricaConnect3 will further unlock the potential of education and …

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GÉANT Emerging NREN Programme: Call for Applications

Events, Stories, TNC / By Hastings Ndebvu / February 6, 2020 February 6, 2020

TNC20, Brighton, United Kingdom, 8-12 June 2020 Call for Applications Introduction UbuntuNet Alliance in collaboration with GÉANT, the Pan-European Research and Education Network is calling on emerging National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) from Eastern and southern Africa to nominate candidates to participate in the GÉANT Emerging NREN Programme, to be held alongside GÉANT’s 36th …

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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 Hastings Ndebvu / January 23, 2020 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 Hastings Ndebvu / January 22, 2020 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 Hastings Ndebvu / January 20, 2020 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 Hastings Ndebvu / January 17, 2020 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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Season’s Greetings

Stories / By Hastings Ndebvu / December 20, 2019 December 20, 2019

CEO’s end of the year message

Stories, Team / By Hastings Ndebvu / December 20, 2019 December 20, 2019

Dear Colleagues, It is that time of the year when we take stock of the year 2019 which will soon be behind us. At UbuntuNet Alliance, 2019 has been a very great year in which we registered impressive milestones for ourselves and our NRENs. Just this week, we capped off this great year by signing, …

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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 Hastings Ndebvu / December 18, 2019 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 Hastings Ndebvu / December 5, 2019 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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