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Five candidates from the UbuntuNet Alliance NREN Members have been selected to represent the region during the upcoming online Emerging NREN Programme that will be held as part of GEANT’s annual networking conference, TNC21 to be held online from 21st – 25th June 2021. GEANT has been organizing the Emerging NREN Programme since 2017 to …

UbuntuNet Alliance gears up for TNC21, identifies Emerging NREN Programme candidates Read More »

After successfully hosting a couple of capacity-building events amid the COVID-19 spells in 2020, the Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) is this year planning to pick up from where the NREN left off last year and hold more events this year. Before the Covid-19 influenced country-wide lockdown in Uganda in March last year, …

RENU plans big for 2021 Capacity Building Programme Read More »

In 2005, Margaret Ngwira, then working as a Librarian at Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN), a Constituent College of the University of Malawi, teamed up with four men to spearhead the formation of UbuntuNet Alliance. The men were Albert Nsengiyumva from Rwanda; Victor Kyalo from Kenya, Duncan Martin from South Africa and Americo Muchanga from …

Celebrating women the UbuntuNet Alliance way Read More »

The West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) led the way for this year’ regional networking conferences when it held its sixth annual networking conference, WACREN 2021 virtually from 15-19 March 2021.  The conference was held under the patronage of the African Union Commission (AUC) Commissioner for Human Resource Science and Technology, Her …

WACREN 2021 sets the ball rolling for RREN annual conferences Read More »

When Dr. Michael Marin, a vascular surgeon and Chief of Surgery for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, USA, thought of extending Mount Sinai’s surgical knowledge and care to other parts of the world, he did not expect the beneficiary facility would enjoy reliable high-speed internet connectivity to facilitate the transfer of such …

RENU powers surgical operations Read More »

The Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET) through its first international conference on digital transformation in education and research is inviting practitioners, researchers, and industrialists to explore novel ideas, share topical research findings, discuss lessons learned and success stories, map out major challenges, and collectively debate on future directions for education and research. The conference, …

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