Registration for UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 Officially Closed

Events, UbuntuNet Connect / By / October 2, 2025

Registration for UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 has now officially closed as of 30th September 2025. We are delighted by the overwhelming interest and strong response from across the research and education networking community, reaffirming the conference’s role as the premier platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration in Eastern and Southern Africa. This year’s conference will be held …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Connects HAL Repository Metadata to AfricArXiv: Advancing African Research Visibility

Stories / By / September 30, 2025

UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce a significant milestone in strengthening access to African scholarship. A new system has been set up that automatically collects African-related scholarly metadata from the HAL Repository and makes it discoverable on AfricArXiv. The collection, now available through AfricArXiv, currently features 6,193 items and continues to grow as new works …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Featured in EVERSE September Newsletter

Partners / By / September 24, 2025

UbuntuNet Alliance is proud to share that we are featured in the September 2025 edition of the EVERSE newsletter, Into the EVERSE. This pan-European publication explores how research software and digital infrastructure drive global collaboration, and this issue shines a spotlight on Africa’s growing role in that ecosystem. About EVERSE and the Newsletter The EVERSE …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Congratulates WACREN on Landmark Expansion, a Win for the Entire Region

Partners, WACREN / By / September 24, 2025

UbuntuNet Alliance extends its warmest congratulations to WACREN on the successful expansion of its network backbone to include six new countries: The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, and Senegal. This is a milestone not only for WACREN, but for the broader African research and education community. For higher education and research institutions in these …

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ZAMREN Launches Biannual Newsletter: A Milestone for NREN Visibility in Africa

Events, Members, ZAMREN / By / September 19, 2025

UbuntuNet Alliance is proud to celebrate the Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) on the launch of its biannual newsletter, ZAMREN Connect. This publication marks a significant step forward in enhancing visibility for National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa, an essential factor in unlocking opportunities for funding, partnerships, and recognition of the transformative …

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AfricArXiv Webinar Recap: “PKP: Optimizing OJS for Journal Publishing in Africa”

AfricArXiv, AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series / By / September 18, 2025

On 28 August 2025, UbuntuNet Alliance together with Access2Perspectives, supported by the African Open Science Platform, hosted the latest session in the AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series. The webinar, titled “PKP: Optimizing OJS for Journal Publishing in Africa”, brought together journal editors, technical staff, open science advocates, and institutional stakeholders from across Africa to explore …

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Core2Africa joins the UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme with a Webinar Lined up for 17th September 2025

Partnership Programme, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / September 2, 2025

UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce a new partnership with Core2Africa, under the UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme. To kick off this collaboration, Core2Africa and UbuntuNet Alliance will be co-hosting a webinar on 17th September 2025, introducing cutting-edge approaches to networking through AI-driven solutions for the research and education community. This is in build up to …

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Crossref Webinar Marks a Successful Step in the UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme, Building Momentum Towards UbuntuNet-Connect 2025

Events, Partnership Programme / By / August 27, 2025

The UbuntuNet Alliance’s Partnership Programme continues to create meaningful opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaboration, with the recent Crossref webinar standing out as a strong example of its impact. On 20 August 2025, UbuntuNet Alliance hosted a webinar titled Crossref Services for Librarians and Journal Editors. The session, held as part of the newly signed …

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UbuntuNet Connect 2025 programme Published!

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / August 19, 2025

The full programme for UbuntuNet Connect 2025 has just been published and it offers a tightly focused agenda that reflects the conference theme “Resilient and Sustainable Research and Education Networks for the Future”. The event will take place on October 30 and October 31, 2025, in Harare, Zimbabwe, and is being hosted by the Zimbabwe …

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RDCT Joins UbuntuNet Alliance Partnership Programme as Silver Partner for UbuntuNet-Connect 2025

Events, UbuntuNet Connect / By / August 12, 2025

UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce that Research Data and Communication Technologies (RDCT) has joined the UbuntuNet Partnership Programme as a Silver Partner for the upcoming UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 conference. This partnership marks a step forward in fostering innovation and strengthening collaboration between technology providers and the research and education community across Eastern and Southern Africa. …

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October 30-31, 2025, Harare, Zimbabwe​

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