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Call for Nominations for Candidates for the Board of Trustees of UbuntuNet Alliance

Stories / By / February 8, 2019

In accordance with Article 8.2 of the Constitution of the Registered Trustees of UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking, which states that “The Alliance shall invite members to submit nominations to the Board of Trustees at least 90 days before the AGM where elections will be held”, NREN Members of the UbuntuNet Alliance are …

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Vacancy: Position of Chief Executive Officer

Stories / By / February 8, 2019

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons for the demanding position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking. The Alliance, whose Head Office is based in Lilongwe, Malawi, is a membership-based non-profit research and education networking organisation for Eastern and Southern Africa. It plans, builds and operates …

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UbuntuNet Alliance appoints Eng. Dr Francis Tusubira as Acting CEO

Board, Press Release, Stories / By / January 3, 2019

3rd January 2019: Lilongwe, Malawi: The Chairperson, Professor Stephen Simukanga and Members of the Board of Trustees of UbuntuNet Alliance are pleased to announce the appointment of Eng. Dr. Francis “Tusu” Tusubira as acting CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance effective 1st January 2019. Eng.Dr. Tusubira succeeds Dr. Pascal Hoba who has left the Alliance following the …

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Let’s get SMART! African universities agree on relevance of digital transformation at UbuntuNet-Connect 2018

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / December 18, 2018

The 11th annual networking conference of UbuntuNet Alliance was held on 22-23 November 2018 in Zanzibar, Tanzania and delegates to the gathering were unanimous in their consensus on the need to fast track the digitalization of their entities into SMART institutions. This was after exhaustive discussions on presentations from co-located meetings and from the main …

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Vice Chancellors rallied to strengthen their national research and education networks

Capacity Building, Events, Seminar, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / December 18, 2018

Vice Chancellors that attended the Vice Chancellors ICT Colloquium, the main pre-conference event to UbuntuNet-Connect 2018 in Zanzibar, Tanzania, have been asked to turn their institutions into formidable members of their National Research and Education Network (NREN)s  in order to add value to their network’s negotiating power when procuring research and education networking resources from …

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Your research outputs are lamps, let them shine! NRENs encouraged to share and market their networking and research activities

Capacity Building, Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / December 18, 2018

Despite the numerous research and education activities and collaborations happening in universities and National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) from the UbuntuNet Alliance region, NREN managers have agreed that their networks are not doing enough to publicise and market their activities. This is why UbuntuNet-Connect 2018 featured a Research and Education Communications and Visibility Workshop …

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State University of Zanzibar shines in drone mapping programme

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / December 18, 2018

In what would be described as a perfect send-off, the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) on Friday, 22nd November 2018, the last day of UbuntuNet-Connect 2018, treated conference attendees to a tour at the institution, where the delegates were delighted to appreciate the university’s Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) mapping Initiative which is helping the Governments …

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Six years and counting: UbuntuNet Alliance capacity building programme going from strength to strength

Capacity Building, Stories, Training / By / December 19, 2018

For the sixth consecutive year since 2012 UbuntuNet Alliance this year, in collaboration with the Network Start-Up Resource Center (NSRC) once again held the Advanced Routing and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) training for NRENs, a programme that has trickled down to over 1000 NREN engineers since its inception. Under this training, which is sponsored by …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Congratulates Cathrin Stover

GEANT, Partners, Stories / By / December 18, 2018

UbuntuNet Alliance is excited to join the global research and education community in congratulating its long time ally, GÉANT’s Chief Collaborations Officer, Cathrin Stover on her recent appointment as Vice Chair of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Executive Board. Ms Stover was appointed to the new role in November 2018 at the launch of …

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IST-Africa 2019 Call for Papers Deadline 21 December 2018

Events, IST-Africa, Stories / By / December 18, 2018

Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission, Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology and IEEE Kenya Section, IST-Africa 2019 (Nairobi, Kenya, May) is the fourteenth in an annual series of Ministerial level Technology Research Conferences. IST-Africa provides a platform in Africa to strengthen ICT-enabled …

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