The UbuntuNet Alliance family is once again happy to be associated with its Vice Chairperson and Board Member Dr. Iman Abuel Maaly Abdelrahman, who was in June this year named as the recipient of the 2015 Sudanese “Distinguished Arab Woman Engineer” by the Federation of Sudanese Engineers, the biggest professional organisation for engineers in Sudan. …
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Efforts being made by governments and Regional Research and Education Networks such as the UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN and ASREN in trying to improve Internet connectivity in Africa seem to be paying off following revelations that Internet penetration levels are on the rise in the continent. This is according to a report released in May 2015 …
Africa’s Internet penetration levels on the rise, Costs still high – Internet Society Read More »
The ever-growing demand for advanced ICT services by the research and education community should push National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa from being mere Internet Service Providers to institutions that offer diverse and modern ICT services that support research and education. This is the vision that UbuntuNet Alliance CEO Dr. Pascal Hoba wants …
NREN members should move towards being service centers – Dr Hoba Read More »
The past two months of June and July 2015 were busy ones for UbuntuNet Alliance CEO; Dr. Pascal Hoba represented the Alliance at a number of important research and education networking forums. First on this busy schedule was the AfREN meeting that was held on June 1 in Tunis, Tunisia coordinated by UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN …
Kenya Education Network (KENET), which is one of UbuntuNet Alliances’ National Research and Education Network (NREN) Members, has become the first sub-Saharan Africa NREN to partner with IBM in delivering advanced hands-on certification courses to faculty and students of 50 Kenyan universities over its broadband network. The certification courses will develop and enhance job market …
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National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) from the African continent now stand a great chance of making their online services secure and credible after the American based company, COMODO, offered the continent’s three regional Research and Education Networks (RENs) free digital certificates for a period of 3 years. TechTarget defines a digital certificate as an …
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The UbuntuNet Alliance has extended the deadline for receiving Abstracts for presentation at the UbuntuNet-Connect 2015 from 15 August to 31st August 2015. UbuntuNet -Connect is a series of annual conferences organised by UbuntuNet Alliance and hosted by NREN Members. This year, hosted by MoRENet, the Mozambican NREN, the conference will be held in Maputo, …
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Six African countries have set up Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), after two years of the African Union’s African Internet Exchange System (AXIS) project, managed by the Internet Society. Under the project, the Internet Society was to provide technical training to AU member countries. The initial engagement involved building a local stakeholder driven process to start …
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Mosquitoes that carry the dengue and chikungunya viruses are more widespread than ever, believe scientists mapping the global spread of the insects. There are no treatments or vaccines for these diseases, so knowing where the mosquitoes that transmit them occur and thrive can help focus research and public health resources, the scientists say. A study, …
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The Malawi governments’ 2015/2016 national budget which was passed by the country’s national assembly on June 25, 2015 and came into effect on July 1, 2015 brought with it an unpleasant surprise to research and education institutions in the country; a 10 percent tax on internet data and mobile phone text messages for end users. …
