The EU-funded AfricaConnect2 project has just announced that, following the call for tenders to connect West and Central (W&C) Africa published back in June 2016, GÉANT has awarded a 15-year contract to MainOne for connectivity services. By signing the contract through AfricaConnect2, WACREN, the regional Research and Education Network in West and Central Africa, will …
UbuntuNet Alliance has published the full Proceedings and Report of its 9th Annual Conference, UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 that was held on 2-3 November 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda. The proceedings, which are now available on the UbuntuNet Alliance repository for downloading, include 18 full text papers that were presented at the two-day conference in the east African …
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Cairo, Egypt is the next destination for the research and education networking community, which is expected to converge in the city on 3-4 December 2017 for the Arab States Education Network (ASREN) 7th International Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment, e-AGE 2017. e-AGE 2017 will be held at the League of Arab …
Researchers from different countries converged in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where they advocated for easy and open access to scientific platforms and publications. This was during the UbuntuNet-Connect 2017 pre-conference workshop titled “Towards an Open Science Platform Infrastructure Framework” held on Wednesday, 1st November 2017 at the Hilton Addis Ababa Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The …
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At least 33 engineers from UbuntuNet Alliance member NRENs benefited from hands-on training workshops in Advanced Routing and Service Deployment at the just ended UbuntuNet-Connect 2017 week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Eighteen network engineers went through a four-day advanced routing workshop organised by UbuntuNet Alliance with assistance from the Network Start-Up Resource Center (NSRC). The …
The African Union Commission (AUC) says it is committed to supporting African Research and Education Networks like the UbuntuNet Alliance following what the Union described as “inspiring work” by the research and education networks of securing affordable ICT access and usage for the continent’s research and education institutions. Director of the Africa Union Commission for …
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UbuntuNet-Connect 2017, the 10th edition of the UbuntuNet-Connect annual networking conferences was held on 2-3 November 2017 at the Hilton Addis Ababa Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme “Enabling Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education.” The two-day conference was attended by over 210 participants from across the world. The annual conference was preceded …
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Gastric cancer is the deadliest form of cancer in Asia. It accounts for the deaths of some 28 men and 13 women per 100,000. In Japan, gastric cancer used to have a similar profile – number one in mortality, as well as in incidence. But now, although the incidence in Japan hasn’t changed much, mortality …
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RedCLARA has announced Luis Eliecer Cadenas Marin, co-founder of Venezuelan NREN REACCIUN, as its new Executive Director. The announcement was made at the opening ceremony of the TICAL2017 Conference, in the city of San José, Costa Rica, earlier this month. The new Executive Director assumes the position previously held by Florencio Utreras, who served as …
Fifteen years ago, Edward “Ned” Walker, a Michigan State University medical entomologist, spearheaded the use of insecticide-treated bed nets in the fight against malaria in Africa. Now, a seven-year, $8 million NIH-sponsored grant will enable Walker and his team to use a new, creative approach—forensic science. MSU, in collaboration with the University of Malawi College …
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