UbuntuNet Alliance is excited to join the global research and education community in congratulating its long time ally, GÉANT’s Chief Collaborations Officer, Cathrin Stover on her recent appointment as Vice Chair of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Executive Board. Ms Stover was appointed to the new role in November 2018 at the launch of …
Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission, Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology and IEEE Kenya Section, IST-Africa 2019 (Nairobi, Kenya, May) is the fourteenth in an annual series of Ministerial level Technology Research Conferences. IST-Africa provides a platform in Africa to strengthen ICT-enabled …
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Minister of Education, Science and Technology for Tanzania Prof. Joyce Ndalichako on 22nd November 2018 officially opened UbuntuNet-Connect 2018, the 11th annual networking conference of UbuntuNet Alliance at Hotel Verde in Zanzibar, Tanzania with a commitment from the Tanzanian government to support the Tanzania Education and Research Network, (TERNET) in its quest to lower bandwidth …
10th October 2018: Lilongwe, Malawi Hundreds of thousands of students, lecturers and researchers from Higher Education Institutions and research centers affiliated to the National Research and Education Network (NREN)s of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Malawi and Zimbabwe now have a glorious opportunity to access high speed and affordable connectivity dedicated to research and …
Registration has opened for participants wishing to attend the 11th conference of UbuntuNet Alliance, the UbuntuNet-Connect 2018 conference which will be held at the Hotel Verde Zanzibar in Zanzibar, Tanzania on 22-23 November 2018 under the theme: Towards Smart Universities: Services that Matter. Among other activities, over 30 researchers from around the globe are …
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The Federated Academic Community of Mozambique (CAF Moz), the Identity Federation of the Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet) has become the latest federation of UbuntuNet Alliances’ Member NRENs to be admitted as a member of eduGAIN. CAF Moz, was accepted as the 59th Member of eduGAIN on 28 July 2019 along with eduIDM.ma, the …
29 June 2018/ Lilongwe, Malawi and Mogadishu, Somalia UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking is pleased to announce that it has successfully connected SomaliREN, the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Somalia to the UbuntuNet network, the data network for NRENs in Eastern and Southern Africa under the €26.6m European Commission co-funded AfricaConnect2 …
H.E. Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) and H.E. Prof. Mohamed Khalfaoui, Director of Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST) have signed an agreement under which ASREN will provide a high capacity connection between the Moroccan National Research and Education Network (MARWAN) and the pan-European …
The challenge of a local university that operates globally What does a modern teaching and learning facility that is part of a global institution of higher learning need to have to stay in touch with its partner campuses in other parts of the world? The internet of course; no prizes for guessing! But if you …
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UbuntuNet-Connect, the annual networking conference of UbuntuNet Alliance is back! After holding the flagship event in the Administrative city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last year, UbuntuNet Alliance this year takes the premier conference to the exotic Island of Zanzibar. UbuntuNet-Connect 2018, the 11th edition of the series of the annual event, will be held on …
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