UbuntuNet-Connect 2019: Be one of the sponsors; Call for Sponsorship out

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / July 15, 2019

A rare chance to have access to our audience of over 250 participants drawn from the global research and education community has presented itself to companies and organizations in the telecommunications and research and education networking industry. By being one of the sponsors of our annual conference for this year, UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 happening on 31st …

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UbuntuNet Alliance committed to helping emerging NRENs grow!

Capacity Building, Events, Stories, TNC / By / July 17, 2019

23 year old computer scientist and researcher, Akuzike Ellina Banda did not envision she would soon be in company of over 20 fellow researchers and scientists from across the world for over 5 days doing nothing but exchange research ideas and experiences. But thanks to the Emerging NREN programme organized by the European research and …

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Farewell to Service Portfolio Manager, Chris Rohrer

Stories, Team / By / July 15, 2019

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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TENET Deploys eduroam in 57 public libraries in Cape Town, South Africa

eduroam, Members, Services, Stories, TENET / By / July 15, 2019

During June the City of Cape Town and the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET) turned on the eduroam WiFi service in 57 of Cape Town’s public libraries. eduroam is a wireless roaming service that provides free Internet access to the research and education community globally. This initiative means students and staff …

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RedCLARA in exciting Virtual NREN Campaign

Partners, RedCLARA, Stories / By / July 11, 2019

Have you ever thought of having a virtual National Research and Education Network (vNREN)? Well, RedCLARA, the Latin American Research and Education Network is now calling on institutions domicile in countries that do not have NRENs in the region to sign up for vREN. Under the new service, a research and education community in country …

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Faster connectivity between Asia and Europe for research and education

Connectivity, GEANT, Network, Partners, Stories / By / July 11, 2019

New secure 100 Gbps link is set to boost research and education collaboration between Asia Pacific region and Europe with shorter, faster, cheaper connectivity.  An international consortium of six research and education (R&E) networks, including AARNet (Australia), GÉANT (Europe), NORDUnet (European Nordics), SingAREN (Singapore), SURF (The Netherlands) and TEIN*CC (Asia-Pacific), recently announced the launch of …

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Job Vacancies: We are hiring!

Stories / By / August 22, 2019

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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UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 goes to Antananarivo, Madagascar, Call for Abstracts now open

Events, Stories, UbuntuNet Connect / By / June 7, 2019

The wait is finally over. This year’s edition of UbuntuNet Alliance series of networking conferences, UbuntuNet-Connect 2019 will be held on Thursday, 31st October and Friday, 1st November 2019 in Antananarivo, the Capital of Madagascar. To be held under the theme: NRENs: Facilitating Research and Education Collaboration in the Digital Space, the 13th edition of …

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Keystone Symposia returns with animal and human health webinar on June 25, register now!

Capacity Building, Stories / By / June 10, 2019

After successfully hosting the “Drug Discover in Africa” webinar which was highly appreciated by participants on 5th June 2015, the Keystone Symposia will return with its second webinar for the month of June titled Leveraging Genomic Diversity To Promote Animal and Human Health. The webinar which as usual will feature a live question and answer …

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All roads lead to Tallinn, Estonia for TNC19

Events, Stories, TNC / By / June 10, 2019

The global research and education community is from 16-20th June 2019 set to converge in Tallinn, Estonia for one of the biggest global networking conference, TNC, the annual conference of GEANT, the pan European Research and Education Network. TNC19, the 35th edition of the of the series of conferences will be held under the theme: …

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