The story of the life of Dr. Iman Abuelmaaly Abdelrahman, the Vice Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance, is one that should ooze tones of inspiration to many a young African woman wanting to break-through the continent’s research and education networking field that seems to be dominated by men. On 29 March this year, the Head of …
In a bid to strengthen the spirit of collaboration and sharing among NRENs in the UbuntuNet Alliance membership region, the Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) extended an invitation to the Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) to nominate and send a network engineer from its community to help facilitate a Scalable Campus Network …
RENU, ZAMREN foster collaboration through an engineer training workshop Read More »
The agenda of the National Workshop for the Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET) the NREN of Tanzania, held on 27 April 2016 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania risked becoming stagnant halfway through the workshop after delegates spent more time than intended, trying to understand the relationship that exists between TERNET and the Higher Education …
Big minds from every corner of world including Africa shared life-transforming ICT initiatives and cutting-edge technology at TNC 2014 in Dublin Ireland in May last year. Now Europe’s largest and most prestigious Networking Conference TNC is back. With more than 650 participants attending this annual event takes us to Porto in Portugal from 15-18 June …
NREN Members of UbuntuNet Alliance yet to introduce and implement an Identity Federation for their communities received a major boost in April 2016 when the Alliance presented them with an opportunity to start thinking towards the implementation of such services through the provision of a Federated Applications (FedApps) training workshop to system administrators from the …
Marching towards a federated UbuntuNet Alliance membership region Read More »
Authors, researchers and ICT practitioners from the global Research and Education (R&E) networking community have an opportunity to present their unpublished work to at least 150 participants expected to attend UbuntuNet–Connect 2016, UbuntuNet Alliance’s ninth annual conference of R&E networking to held in Uganda and hosted by RENU, the National Research and Education Network of …
PRESS RELEASE UbuntuNet Alliance has just approved its three year communication strategy. At the recent 9th Annual General Meeting of Members held in Lilongwe, Malawi, the highest organ of the Alliance gave the mega three year plan a node. The strategy is expected to focus on promoting uptake of the UbuntuNet brand to new user …
Press Release: UbuntuNet Alliance nodes to big new Communication Strategy Read More »
Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) is currently extending the reach of its eduroam services. Eduroam is a service that allows users from participating institutions to gain secure access to wireless network using their standard username (email format)/ and password credentials as they do at their home institution for wireless access. It is based on a federated …
Malawi plans to accelerate its uptake of the UbuntuNet network which is highly expected to boost education through lowering the cost of connectivity for education and research as well as improving efficiency and speed of networked education services. Speaking in Lilongwe when he officiated at the UbuntuNet Alliance Networking Cocktail held as a pre-event to …
Malawi Minister of Education promises to fast track MAREN Read More »
Cathrin Stöver is no new name in this newsletter. From time to time we speak of her in UbuntuNet Alliance. Why? Although Cathrin Stover works with GEANT Ltd and is the Project Manager of the EU funded AfricaConnect project, which has built and continues to grow the regional component of the UbuntuNet high-speed network for …
Cathrin Stöver recognised for professionalism, multicultural skills Read More »
