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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The UbuntuNet Alliance team continues to grow. On 1st August this year, the Alliance welcomed, as part of its staff, Nosiku Sikanyika, former Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) Systems Administrator who has joined as Service Portfolio Manager. Sikanyika brings to the Alliance vast experience in research and education networking having worked at the Zambia …
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Dear Colleagues, It is that time of the year when we take stock of the year 2019 which will soon be behind us. At UbuntuNet Alliance, 2019 has been a very great year in which we registered impressive milestones for ourselves and our NRENs. Just this week, we capped off this great year by signing, …
After serving as Service and Portfolio Manager for UbuntuNet Alliance for three years, Chris Rohrer finally bade farewell to colleagues at the secretariat in Lilongwe, Malawi in June 2019 when he left UbuntuNet Alliance and returned to his home in Switzerland. A lighting talk on eduroam switchboard at TNC19 in Tallinn, Estonia was the parting …
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UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to welcome into its family Chris Rohrer, the Special Projects Coordinator who will be based at the secretariat in Lilongwe, Malawi. Rohrer joined the Alliance at the beginning of December 2015 from SWITCH, the Swiss National Research and Education network where he has been working as a Software Engineer for eight …
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NUANCE enters its seventh year As most readers may be aware, NUANCE means Newsletter of UbuntuNet Alliance: Networks – Collaboration – Education. Back in 2008, the idea of a monthly newsletter started with Dr Francis Tusubira, the CEO and Margaret Ngwira, one of the founding Directors but now retired, quickly coined the name NUANCE. Over …
The very end of the beginning: Margaret moves on By Margaret Ngwira When we close for the Christmas recess, I end my time with UbuntuNet Alliance. It is with satisfaction that I go, believing that it is the right time and that this is the very end of the beginning of the Alliance. Looking back …
Rwanda hosts a successful UbuntuNet-Connect 2013 Transforming education and research was the highly relevant theme of UbuntuNet-Connect 2013 held at Lemigo Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda on 14-15 November 2013. The 6th in the series, the conference was hosted by one of the founding NRENs of the UbuntuNet Alliance, RwEdNet, the Rwandan NREN, with great support …
UbuntuNet Alliance has a new Chairperson Professor John Ssebuwufu, the Director for Research Programmes at the Association of African Universities (AAU) in Ghana, is now the new chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance. He succeeds Professor Zimani Kadzamira who stepped down on 12th February 2013 after serving the Alliance with distinction for two consecutive three year terms …
Zambia and ZAMREN on the move The whole continent was glued to their screens to watch the nail biting finish of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations and the victory of Chipolopolo Stars. On the NREN front also, Zambia is scoring – and not on penalties! In efforts to strengthen its organizational base and to …
