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IST-Africa 2017 goes to Windhoek, submission of papers closes 23rd December 2016

Events, IST-Africa, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

After successfully holding its eleventh annual conference (IST-Africa 2016) in April this year in Durban, South Africa where UbuntuNet Alliance, GEANT, ASREN and WACREN held an AfricaConnect2 workshop, IST-Africa is set to be back with its twelfth edition of the conference, IST-Africa2017 in Windhoek, Namibia in May 2017. Supported by the European Commission and African …

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AfricaConnect2 news round-up: A year on!

AfricaConnect, Projects, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

In November 2015, UbuntuNet Alliance CEO, Dr. Pascal Hoba, signed the AfricaConnect2 project contract for Cluster 1 during the UbuntuNet-Connect 2015 conference in Maputo, Mozambique. Shortly after, Steve Cotter, CEO of GEANT signed two contracts for Clusters 2 and 3 of the same project for West & Central Africa and North Africa respectively. Since then, …

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Exclusive: UbuntuNet Alliance CEO discusses UbuntuNet-Connect 2016, future of Africa’s research and education networking

Interview, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

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 …

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UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 theme gives African NRENs plenty food for thought

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 6, 2017

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 …

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Chance for African researchers to present their work at TNC 17

Events, Stories, TNC / By / September 6, 2017

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 …

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Internet use still low in Africa – Report

Connectivity, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

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 …

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African Research Universities to collaborate on multinational projects

Capacity Building, Research, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

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 …

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Brazilian NREN aids MoRENet in Identity Federation, eduroam set up

Capacity Building, eduroam, Stories / By / September 6, 2017

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 …

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New CEOs for MoRENet and SudREN

Members, MoRENet, Stories, SudREN / By / September 6, 2017

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 …

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UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 week to offer capacity building workshops for engineers

NSRC, Stories, Training, UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 19, 2016

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 …

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