A Congolese doctor who is also Director General of Congo’s National Institute for Biomedical Research, has become a “true hero” of Africa and the world in general after his experimental drugs were confirmed to treat patients with the Ebola virus. “I spent four decades of my life thinking how to treat patients with the Ebola …
In what could be described as a model for African governments to emulate, the government of Canada recently announced an investment of $137M to CANARIE, the operator of the high speed National Research and Education Network of Canada for the organisation’s 2020 – 2024 operations. In a Press Statement, CANARIE said the funding will enable …
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An inspiring closing keynote address from former CEO, Eng. Dr. Tusu Tusubira; co-hosting of a lighting talk track by our member NREN CEO, Nicholas Mbonimpa and presentation of a lightning talks from Service Portfolio Manager, Chris Rohrer and Akuzike Banda, a researcher nominated and sponsored by the Alliance to participate in the Emerging NRENs programme …
UbuntuNet Alliance contributes to a memorable TNC19 in Tallinn, Estonia Read More »
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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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 …
UbuntuNet Alliance committed to helping emerging NRENs grow! Read More »
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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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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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 …
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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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 …
