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KENET boost Internet for students, making speeds 25 times faster*

Stories / By / August 22, 2016

Kenya Education Network (KENET) and Liquid Telecom Kenya have migrated Kenya’s education and research institutions onto connections that are up to 25 times faster than were possible in the past. The new connections are increasing the total Internet capacity distributed to KENET member institutions using Liquid Telecom Kenya’s network from as little as 200 megabytes …

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An NREN’s positioning vis-à-vis commercial ISPs

Stories / By / August 22, 2016

Inevitably the roles and activities of an NREN impact upon those of commercial service providers as participants in a competitive industry, and it is important for an NREN’s management to think about and manage the NREN’s relations with commercial ISPs. One objective is to cultivate the ISP’s understanding and respect for the NREN’s developmental role; …

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Dakar Declaration on Open Access gets big boost

Stories / By / August 26, 2016

The Open Access global community received a major boost in May 2016 when delegates to the fourth Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Conference on Electronic Publishing adopted the ‘Dakar Declaration on Open Access Publishing in Africa and the Global South’. The Dakar Declaration calls on scholars/researchers and students, policy …

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66 percent of African countries have no operational NRENs – World Bank

Stories / By / August 26, 2016

36 of the 54 countries on the African continent do not have operational National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) representing 66 percent of countries lacking operational NRENs on the continent. This has been revealed in a recent report released by the World Bank titled the “Role and Status of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) …

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MAREN goes eduroam

Stories / By / August 22, 2016

Better late than never! This seems to be a fitting phrase for the Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN) after the network successfully tested its eduroam service in June 2016 to become the fifth NREN within the UbuntuNet Alliance membership region to launch the service after KENET, TENET, ZAMREN and RENU. eduroam is a service …

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Dakar Declaration on Open Access gets big boost

Stories / By / September 22, 2016

The Open Access global community received a major boost in May 2016 when delegates to the fourth Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Conference on Electronic Publishing adopted the ‘Dakar Declaration on Open Access Publishing in Africa and the Global South’. The Dakar Declaration calls on scholars/researchers and students, policy …

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Connectivity boost accelerates EU-Japanese science collaborations*

Stories / By / August 26, 2016

Over 50 million researchers, academics and students across Europe and Japan are set to benefit from a direct 20Gbps (gigabit per second) connectivity injection into the pan-European GÉANT network, celebrated at the launch event of the upgraded Japanese Science Information Network (SINET5) in Tokyo last month. The capacity boost came in response to the increasing …

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The NREN’s relationships with governments and ISPs: An expert’s opinion

Stories / By / August 26, 2016

By Duncan Martin NRENs exist to meet the connectivity and related needs of the universities and research institutions of their countries.  But who determines these needs and who judges whether they are being met? If most of these institutions are essentially sub-departments of the State, to the extent that their procurement of Internet services is …

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African NRENs and their role in addressing financial stress of universities and research institutions

Stories / By / August 26, 2016

That many African higher learning and research institutions are facing funding problems is not news.  Most universities across Africa are struggling to operate to their full potential due to underfunding, a development that has in some cases forced universities to resort to hiking fees already considered high for many an African student. The raising of  …

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