The month of November is a special one for UbuntuNet Alliance as this is the time the Regional Research and Education Network (RREN) for Southern and Eastern Africa holds its annual networking conference, the UbuntuNet-Connect. This year, ICT practitioners, researchers, representatives from ministries of higher education and members of the global NREN community converged in …
Stiff competition amongst universities, lack of defined metrics in measuring the impact of research and the absence of “known” end-user communities are some of the reasons that are limiting the potential impact NRENs can influence on Africa’s research. These are some of the observations that were pointed out during an interactive panel discussion held on …
UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 theme gives African NRENs plenty food for thought Read More »
African researchers, scientists and students have once again been presented with a golden opportunity to present their work to hundreds of participants that will converge at one of the biggest global research and education platforms, TNC 17. TNC is the annual networking conference of the pan European Research and Education network, GEANT, and is considered …
Chance for African researchers to present their work at TNC 17 Read More »
Despite recent improvements in infrastructure and affordability, internet adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa is not growing rapidly, a report says. The report says that the continent’s internet adoption isn’t growing at a speedy rate because potential users do not always find the internet relevant enough. According to Bastiaan Quast, co-author of the report and economics fellow …
Imagine 16 leading research universities in Africa putting together a pool of researchers with vast expertise, knowledge and resources to help a single country or agency on the continent undertake a research project in a specialised area. Or Picture the African continent identifying major multinational research projects on cross cutting issues and then using continent-wide …
African Research Universities to collaborate on multinational projects Read More »
The Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet) should soon be able to assemble its own Identity Federation and deploy eduroam, thanks to a project that will see the NREN acquiring knowledge on how to implement the two initiatives from the Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP). Presently, MoRENet has already signed eduroam compliance and …
Brazilian NREN aids MoRENet in Identity Federation, eduroam set up Read More »
The National Research and Education Networks for Mozambique (MoRENet) and Sudan (SudREN) have appointed new CEOs following the departure of former CEOs for the two NRENs a couple of months ago. Prof. Lourino Alberto Chemane was in September this year appointed as the new CEO of MoRENet, replacing former CEO Eng. Dr Adriano Salvador who …
At least 30 NREN and university engineers from the UbuntuNet Alliance region will benefit from two training workshops that will be held as part of the preceding events to the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 conference to be held on 3-4 November, 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda. With assistance from its partners, UbuntuNet Alliance will, during the UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 …
UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 week to offer capacity building workshops for engineers Read More »
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that “all people are born equal in dignity and rights”. Sadly, this statement doesn’t reflect billions of people’s daily lives. Health is one of the areas in which many – if not most – people have no real rights. Social determinants of health, as defined by the World …
Africa’s Health won’t improve without reliable data and collaboration* Read More »
Over 500,000 researchers, academics and students across Central Asia stand to benefit from the launch of the 3rd phase of the EU-funded Central Asia Research and Education Network (CAREN) project which resumes regional R&E connectivity after the previous project phase ended in August 2015. The contract signing between the European Commission and GÉANT at the …
R&E connectivity project in Central Asia rebooted* Read More »
