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UbuntuNet Alliance bids Farewell to its Communications Officer

The UbuntuNet Alliance on Wednesday, 23rd February 2022 held a farewell dinner for its longest serving Communications Officer, Hastings Ndebvu who has left the Alliance after seven years. Ndebvu, who joined the Alliance on 1st July 2015, has left to take up a lecturing post at his alma mater, Malawi University of Business and Applied …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Rolls Out Digital Certificates Services.

As the modern world and the organizations within it increasingly integrate themselves to the use of digital tools, having a website has become nothing short of an expectation for any organization. With all the security concerns that come with the use of websites to traffic important files, there is need to ensure the high-level security. …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Now Offers Digital Object Identifier Services

Research data and output has been made globally accessible through the Internet, advancing Open Science and aiding in the removal of barriers to research output, resources, methods and tools, thereby facilitation of effective approaches to research.  Research documents can be distinctly identified online using Digital Object Identifier (DOI).  A DOI is a string of characters …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Launches its “Utafiti Africa” Research Opportunities Platform

The ability for African researchers to conduct high-quality research is crucial for Africans to address Africa’s development challenges. Their research provides the evidence necessary for impactful policy development and the creation of appropriate evidence-based solutions. Researchers in Africa face many challenges in accessing research funding. Prof Tassew Woldehanna, President of Addis Ababa University, suggested at …

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Request for Expression of Interest for External Audit Services

Background UbuntuNet Alliance is the regional research and education networking organisation for Eastern and Southern Africa. It builds and operates UbuntuNet, the regional high speed Internet backbone network for Eastern and Southern Africa.  UbuntuNet Alliance is registered in Malawi as a not-for-profit association of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa with the aim …

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Vacancy: Communications Officer

Background UbuntuNet Alliance is the regional research and education networking organisation for Eastern and Southern Africa. It builds and operates UbuntuNet, the regional high speed Internet backbone network for Eastern and Southern Africa.  UbuntuNet Alliance is registered in Malawi as a not-for-profit association of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa with the aim …

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Notice of Change of Venue for 16th Annual General Meeting of Members of UbuntuNet Alliance

UbuntuNet Alliance wishes to inform all Members that the 16th Annual General Meeting of Members (AGM) will be held on Friday, 22th April 2022 in Lilongwe, Malawi starting from 9am. The Notice is issued according to Article 21 and Article  24 of the Constitution of UbuntuNet Alliance. The AGM is the highest governing body of UbuntuNet …

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Appointment of new CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance

Press Statement Lilongwe/ Malawi: 24th January 2022: The Board of Trustees of UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Madara Ogot as the new Chief Executive Officer of UbuntuNet Alliance for a four-year term with effect from 1st February 2022. Professor Ogot is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering in the Department of …

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AFD, RENATER sign agreement to develop National Research and Education Networks in UbuntuNet Alliance Region

Press Release Lilongwe, Malawi: 1st January 2022. Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and RENATER have signed a partnership agreement to work together on the structuring and development of National Research and Education Networks in Southern and Eastern Africa, set up by the Regional Research and Education Network, UbuntuNet Alliance. The partnership, financed by AFD in …

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Vacancy for the position of Chief Executive Officer

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons for the 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 the …

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