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The Alliance Delivers First Portuguese Workshop in Mozambique
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The Alliance Delivers First Portuguese Workshop in Mozambique
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The Alliance Delivers First Portuguese Workshop in Mozambique
CEO’s end of the year message
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, …
AfricaConnect3 project to extend pan-African high-speed internet connectivity and services for research and education
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 …
MAREN trains public university engineers
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 …
Bridging 7000+ km to teach fisheries management
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 …
Top Ten Risks for NRENs
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 …
eduroam celebrates reaching over 100 countries by becoming a “Product of the Year” finalist in the WiFi Awards
This year Klaas Wierenga, the inventor of eduroam, has been honoured by being inducted into the internet hall of fame and now eduroam itself has been recognised by the WiFi industry and nominated as a finalist for “Product of the Year” at the annual WiFi Awards https://thewifiawards.com/. From its beginnings as a secure WiFi roaming service in 6 …