The Information society in Europe, Asia and South America and other world regions is advancing by the day. Whereby the creation, distribution use and application of information is a central aspect of daily life be in political, economic and cultural aspects; all these are already leveraging on Information Technologies. Africa is lagging behind mainly due …
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Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …
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Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …
Following the successful completion of AfricaConnect, the finishing touches are currently being added to the Grant Agreement for its successor project. Conceived as a pan-African umbrella connectivity project, AfricaConnect2 will adopt a modular approach adjusted to the geographical, cultural and organisational context of the African regions and their different stages of NREN development, as well …
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The eleventh edition of the IST-Africa conference series, IST-Africa 2016, was held in Durban, South Africa from 11-13 May 2016 with organisers and delegates at the conference placing more emphasis on the value of open innovation and collaboration among researchers. The conference opened on Wednesday, 11 May, with a high level panel discussion whose participants …
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PRESS RELEASE Authors are invited to submit abstracts for presentation at UbuntuNet-Connect 2015, the 8th Annual Conference of the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking. The UbuntuNet-Connect series of conferences has been held for the past seven years and is regarded as one of the premier conferences in Africa. This year the conference will …
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Eng. Dr Francis “Tusu” Tusubira, former CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance received the Network Information and Infrastructure Service Award (NI&I) Service Award 2015. This was announced on 4 June 2015 at the African Internet Summit in Tunis, Tunisia. Tusu, as he is popularly known in the community, holds a PhD (Southampton, UK), an M.Sc.E (New Brunswick, …
The long awaited Proceedings and Report of the 7th UbuntuNet Alliance annual conference has been published on the UbuntuNet Alliance website and are available for download. The proceedings include 31 full text papers presented at the UbuntuNet-Connect 2014, which was held in Lusaka, Zambia on 13-14 November 2014. Download your copy for free now! As you …
A technology that relies on trained African giant pouched rats — named HeroRATS — to sniff out tuberculosis (TB) and diagnose the disease faster than conventional diagnostic methods is helping save lives in Mozambique and Tanzania. Mozambique and Tanzania are among 22 high-burden nations suffering from TB, with 58,270 and 63,151 new cases of the …
Giant rats helping control TB in Mozambique, Tanzania* Read More »
During the month of June every year, UbuntuNet Alliance celebrates the anniversary of the Newsletter of UbuntuNet Alliance: Networks, Collaboration, Education (NUANCE), a monthly e-newsletter that carries latest Research and Education networking updates from within the Alliance region and the rest of the global R&E networking community. June 2016 marks 8 years of existence of …
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