The Official YouTube Channel for UbuntuNet Alliance: UbuntuNet TV!

Capacity Building, Events, Stories / By / December 13, 2022

As the Regional Research and Education Network of Eastern and Southern Africa, we have launched a YouTube channel dubbed UbuntuNetTV. The YouTube channel will be home of videos on services, events, capacity building activities held under the AfricaConnect project and much more content relevant to the community. UbuntuNet Allaince is leading the charge to a …

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Webinar Series 2022-2: Cloudflare Services, NRENs, and Higher Education

Webinar Series / By / March 8, 2022

The webinar on Cloudflare Services, NRENs, and Higher Education was the second webinar for our 2022 series. The webinar was held on March 2, 2022. It has broken it down into three sequential parts for easy reference. Part 1 – Introduction and Overview of Cloudflare in the Context of NRENs and Higher Education Duration 40:23 …

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Webinar Series 2022-1: Amazon Web Services and Higher Education

Webinar Series / By / March 1, 2022

The webinar on Amazon Web Services and the Higher Education kicked of our 2022 webinar series. The webinar was held on February 23, 2022. We have broken it down into four sequential parts for easy reference. Part 1 – Introduction and Overview of AWS Duration 20:44 minutes Part 2 – AWS and Higher Education Duration: …

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Strengthening the Community Through NREN Twinning

Members, Services, Stories / By / December 13, 2022

Development inequalities among the National Regional and Education Networks (NRENs) has posed a big challenge in creating an enabling environment where both vertical and horizontal collaborations can be fostered.  To address this, the Alliance is embarking on creation of a community of NRENs that can actively interact more through capacity building and advocacy. Unfortunately, not …

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Botswana Research and Education Network  appoints Executive Committee

Members, Stories / By / March 1, 2022

Recently admitted member of the Alliance, the Botswana Research and Education Network (BotsREN), has constituted its first Executive Committee to spearhead its operationalisation in the country. BotsREN was admitted as the 17th member of the Alliance in December 2019 and instituted an interim committee to run its affairs. At its Annual General Meeting held in …

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UbuntuNet Alliance bids Farewell to its Communications Officer

Members, Stories, Team / By / March 1, 2022

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.

Members, Stories / By / March 1, 2022

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

Members, Stories / By / December 13, 2022

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

Research, Stories / By / June 26, 2023

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

Stories, Vacancies / By / February 22, 2022

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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