After holding a successful UbuntuNet-Connect 2015, organised jointly with the Mozambique Ministry of Science and Technology, Higher Education and Vocational Training and the Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet), and hosted by the latter in Maputo, Mozambique in November last year, UbuntuNet Alliance has now announced that the ninth edition of the annual research and …
It is undeniable that medics at the frontline of the Ebola fight work in an extremely hot and stressful environment as the full-body Personal Protective Equipment (PPE ) which is necessary to protect them just does not go well with the humid sub-tropical, tropical, and equatorial climates. The medics are at risk of dehydration and …
In 2015, UbuntuNet Alliance NRENs are set to remotely participate in another Dengue Fever Workshop to be held in Fukuoka, Japan on 1st March. The Telemedicine Workshop will be characterised by a presentation on Ebola, one of the most challenging infectious diseases yet to hit Africa, West Africa in particular. However, wider participation from researchers, …
UbuntuNet enabled doctors to participate in Global Telemedicine event Read More »
AWS Makes Cloud and HPC Budgeting More Predictable for Scientists The pace of research is no longer limited by the availability of computing resources. Researchers are beginning to rely on cloud computing to drive breakthrough science at breakneck speeds and AWS wants to fuel the pace of new discoveries by making it possible for all …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Offers Data Egress Discount to Researchers* Read More »
Members of the Global Research and Education (R&E) Network CEO Forum recently met for a two-day meeting in Santiago, Chile where they discussed and sought to find solutions to challenges rocking the global research and education community such as internet security and NREN funding. The Global R&E Network CEO Forum is a grouping of Chief …
The Somali Research and Education Network (SomaliREN) Board has elected Eng. Addullahi Bihi Hussein as the network’s new CEO effective February 2016. The NREN’s former Chief Technical Officer (CTO) replaces Dahir Hassan Abdi who has been at the helm of the network since its establishment 2006. Eng. Hussein takes over the hot seat at SomaliREN …
The European Policy Management Authority for Grid Authentication (EUGridPMA) recently approved the Kenya Education Network (KENET) Certification Authority (CA) and Root CA after a year of reviewing the NREN’s CA policy statements. EUGridPMA is the international organization that coordinates the trust environment for e-Infrastructure for research in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Among other …
EUGridPMA Approves KENET Certification Authority Read More »
February 2016 was a month of substantial progress for the Middleware for Collaborative Applications and Global Virtue Communities (MAGIC) project as this was the month the project held first virtual meetings of its four Global Science Communities. The MAGIC project, which is being led by RedCLARA with partnership from Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean, West …
A second joint TANDEM, MAGIC and Sci-GaIA workshop on ‘Promotion of Open Science in Africa’ was held in Senegal, Dakar on March 15, 2016. The workshop came as one of the pre-conference events of the second annual conference of West African Countries Research and Education Network (WACREN) which held on 17-18 March 2016 under the …
WACREN annual conference brings MAGIC, TANDEM and Sci-GaIA Projects under one roof Read More »
The CHAIN-REDS EU FP7 funded project is organising its final conference titled ”Open Science at the Global Scale: Sharing e-Infrastructures, Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Progress” taking place on March 31, 2015 at Marivaux Hotel, Congress and Seminar Centre in Brussels, Belgium. The event will be held under the aegis of the European Commission (DG CONNECT). The …
