At the end of the 11th UbuntuNet Alliance Annual General Meeting of Members on 21st April 2017 in Livingstone, Zambia, participants offered a standing ovation to one of the most outstanding individuals of the Alliance; Dr. Iman Abdelrahman. This was after UbuntuNet Alliance CEO, Dr. Pascal Hoba had officially announced that the former Vice Chairperson …
UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to introduce to its community the new networking engineer Wilson Wasswa, who started working for the Alliance from 1st April 2017 and is based in Kampala, Uganda. Wasswa says he is excited to have joined the Alliance which he believes presents an excellent opportunity for him to deploy his professional skills. …
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UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking is pleased to announce that UbuntuNet-Connect 2017, the tenth edition of its series of annual networking conferences will be held on 2-3 November 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and will be hosted by the Ethiopian Education and Research Network, EthERNet. The conference will be held under the theme: …
At its 11th Annual General Meeting of Members (AGM) held on 21st April 2017 in Livingstone, Zambia, Members of UbuntuNet Alliance elected a new Board of Trustees of the Alliance for a two year term. Representatives of Member NRENs at the AGM constituted the new Board of Trustees by electing candidates whose nominations were submitted …
As weather forecasts are becoming increasingly detailed, data volumes are increasing as well, demanding high-speed connectivity and supercomputing power. In Switzerland, the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss) is currently installing a new forecasting model called COSMO-NExT. The COSMO-NExT model has won the Swiss ICT Award 2016, and among other things it reduces the …
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A drug used to combat malaria in pregnant women could also treat sexually transmitted infections (STIs), a study shows. Results of the study by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a medicine recommended during antenatal care visit for intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) of malaria in pregnant women in …
Malaria drug could cut women’s risk of other infections* Read More »
Higher education benefits from investments in infrastructure, journals, books and data. Over the years the investment into the development of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) across Africa has revolutionised research and education’s access to services but often it is the last kilometre of access from the NREN network to the campus that proves to …
NORDUnet is a regional R&E network that serves the five Nordic countries in Europe: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Each country has a national R&E network (NREN), serving scientists, educators, students, and their institutions in the country. Since the 1980s, these five NRENs have worked together to connect their network infrastructures to each other, …
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Researchers, academics and students in Central Asia and Europe are already starting to benefit from the recent deployment of a ring of 1 Gbps circuits for research and education (R&E) across the regions, officially inaugurated today at the start of the 2nd CAREN Regional Networking Conference (CRNC 2017) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The new connectivity is …
. CAREN project brings Gigabit-speed connectivity to Central Asia* Read More »
The Regional Research and Education Network (RREN) for Latin America, RedCLARA has achieved another great milestone after it announced that it is now peering with Google effective March 1, 2017. The announcement made on the RRENs website means that connected NREN members and Entrepreneurial Associates can benefit from the service, bringing benefits to academics and …
