by Hastings Ndebvu | Jul 11, 2019 | Stories, Team
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...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Dec 1, 2015 | Team
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...
by Chris Rohrer | May 19, 2014 | Capacity Building, GEANT, Team, TNC
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...
by Chris Rohrer | Dec 19, 2013 | Cloud, Health Science, Portrait, Team, TERNET
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...
by Chris Rohrer | Nov 19, 2013 | CHAIN-REDS, IST-Africa, KENET, Portrait, Research, Team, UbuntuNet Connect
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...
by Chris Rohrer | Oct 19, 2013 | Board, Health Science, MAREN, Portrait, Team, UbuntuNet Connect, WACREN
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...
