UbuntuNet Alliance is the regional research and education networking organisation for Eastern and Southern Africa. It builds and operates UbuntuNet, the...
Past Events
As part of the efforts to raise awareness and understanding of the network and its potential applications, AfricaConnect3 was represented at the following events:
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Africa and Europe are important partners in the digital sector and share the ambition of leveraging digitalisation for inclusive and sustainable development...
WACREN in colloboration with DFN (German NREN), RENATER (French NREN) will organise a day workshop on eduroam. eduroam provides simple, easy, secure...
LIBSENSE and DORA on March 2, 2022 will hold an hour webinar to discuss how open science practices and research assessment reform may be integrated into...
This is the fourth and final module of the “Information Security” training program delivered by Arab States Research and education Network (ASREN) in...
An Online CyberSecurity Workshop, organized by the EaPConnect project in cooperation with GÉANT, GRENA, DFN and the CyberEDU project, will take place online on...
Have you heard? We are handing out gift baskets! We are excited to announce that the AfricaConnect3 (AC3) Partners are launching AC3’s first Twitter...
The WACREN 2022 event will be on the topic of “Open Science in Africa – Connecting the dots” and will be held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on...
The Eko-Konnect Users Conference 2022 Theme: OPEN SCIENCE FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, will be held online from 25-27 January 2020. This year’s conference is...
Omo Oaiya, Chief Strategy Officer of the West and Central Research and Education Network (WACREN), will be presenting on Open-source Tools and CSIRT Success...
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The Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP) annually holds the RNP Forum, a meeting that addresses political and strategic issues in the...
Operating under the One-UN approach, and within the framework of related track under the Arab States Action Programme on “Advancing Digital Cooperation and...
Our colleagues at the Arab States Research & Education Network (ASREN) will be presenting at the theme-park inspired, virtual Internet Society conference...
Wednesday, 8th December, 2021 (12:45 UTC) (EMERGING AND CROSS-CUTTING) Inclusive IG ecosystems and digital cooperation Assessing Internet governance approaches...
6 November from 11:45 to 13:00 To expose the decisive role of Research and Education Networks in terms of digital infrastructure as well as the articulation of...
This Policy Development Workshop is the first in a series of workshops organised in collaboration with UNESCO and regional associations of higher education...
Thursday 4 Nov 2021, 10:00 → 12:00 Africa/Lusaka Increasing reliance on ICT in all aspects of daily life has created an environment prone to criminal...
Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Research and Education Success Stories During Covid-19 Virtual/Livingstone, Zambia, 10-12 November 2021 The advent of...
Submit a Proposal IMPORTANT DEADLINES 15 November 2021 Submission Deadline (Full Papers) 15 November 2021 Submission Deadline (Posters and Presentations) 20...
The TNC22 Call for Proposals for Single Presentations and Demonstrations is now open! TNC22 will be hosted by GARR, the Italian Research and Education Network...
5-day workshop in Lomé, Togo 25 – 29 October 2021, 9.30 – 17.30 UTC Applicants will typically be experienced system, network or IT administrators...
Hosted by the Government of South Africa through the Department of Science and Innovation and Supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union...
ASREN will present the AfricaConnect3 project at the Science Summit of the 76th United Nations General Assembly in two main sessions: Arab Science Cooperation...
—Please note that this event is only for AfricaConnect3 NRENs. Interested NRENs can confirm their availability to attend to the respective RREN contact...
The Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) has decided to hold its 11th edition of e-AGE conference online for the second time in a row on 13-15...
The Marconi Society, a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to bridging the digital divide, is hosting an exciting event called The Decade of Digital...
Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative is hosting a two-day online National Open Science Symposium with national policy agencies including TETFund, NUC...
The purpose of this webinar is to disseminate among the AfriGEO and NREN communities about each other’s activities. For the AfriGEO community to learn...
Date: Thursday, 1 July 2021
Time: 09:00 – 10:00 UTC
Zoom: (click to enter the meeting room; no need for registration)
The UbuntuNet Alliance invites you to register for the Marketing National Research and Education Networks Services webinar. The event will take place from 11am...
On June 11, together with the Malawi Library Consortium (MALICO) and the National Commission for Science & Technology, Dimensions will introduce...
The Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) will be participating in The 16th International Conference on Open Repositories OR2021 which will be...
The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual, regional, multi-stakeholder ICT conference. It is the pinnacle educational and business ICT event in Africa...
The AfricaConnect3 project will join the Africa-Europe Space Earth Observation High-Level Forum for a presentation on the use of NRENs for Earth Observation...
23/06 15.00 – 15.40 Chaired by: Nicholas Mbonimpa (Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU)) Presentation: Establishment of new identity...
Keynote: Digital Earth Africa: Transformation Powered by Networks 23/06 14.00 – 14.45 Speaker: Adam Lewis (Managing Director of Digital Earth Africa...
The Summit is an annual gathering of OMREN and Global Research & Education community to share their knowledge, success stories, identify solutions, explore...
19 May 2021, 8:45 – 11:00 UTC, online It has always been seen as wise to secure all types of IP networks, but right now there is more urgency to do so...
Side-event to the United Nations Science, Technology and Innovation Forum Open access and open science more broadly have great potential to accelerate the...
The health crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges for the entire society, including the educational community, which has had to make...
The British Council has funded a series of projects under the theme of The Digital University Africa. These projects will contribute to an analysis of the...
Date: April 8th – 9th 2021 Where: online Theme: 15 Years of Enabling Research & Education Collaboration The Research and Education Network of...
Increasing reliance on ICT in all aspects of daily life has created an environment prone to criminal activities such as computer intrusions, denials of...
Communiqué – March 9, 2021, Effah Amponsah (WACREN) The LIBSENSE initiative, which was launched in 2017, has been building a community of practice for...
The African eduroam roadshow is a series of promotion and training activities in the Trust and Identity work plan of the AfricaConnect3 project. The project...
Hosted by the Government of South Africa through the Department of Science and Innovation and Supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union...
Eko-Konnect is hosting its Annual Users Conference from 19 – 21 January 2021 virtually. The theme of this year’s Users Conference is “Resilient...
The attention of the REN fraternity in Africa and other parts of the World will move to WACREN as it holds its 6th Annual Regional Conference of stakeholders...
A reliable open research e-infrastructures enabler December 17th 2020 | 13:00 – 14:00 UTC The Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) will be...
December 17th 2020 | 12:00 – 13:00 UTC The Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) will be hosting its third – LIBSENSE workshop entitled...
Title TERNET Network Security Training Date 22nd – 26th March 2021, 08:00 – 18:00 Location Mzumbe University, Morogoro Interested in taking part...
Theme: “Towards Digital Transformation in Education and Research” 16th – 17th September 2021, Dar es Salaam, the United Republic of Tanzania The digitisation...
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 09:00 – 11:00 UTC The workshop will provide an introduction to routing security, the issues with global BGP routing system, and the...
AERAP briefing on EU support for science and innovation with Africa, 18 November 2020, Online AERAP, the Africa-Europe science platform, will organise a...
In line with the Covid-19 safety regulations, UbuntuNet Alliance will hold its 14th Annual General Meeting virtually on 16th November 2020. The meeting was...
The 7th edition of our Annual General Meeting (AGM) would be held on Friday, 13 November 2020 via Zoom from 09:00 to 11:00 UTC. As has been the tradition, the...
It is undeniable that the ‘engine room’ of research and education networks (RENs) is the Network Operation Centre (NOC). Therefore, it makes absolute sense to...
This fourth call in the series will focus on turning the principles into action in a workflow-driven approach that addresses the journal and preprints use...
The LIBSENSE Working Group on Infrastructure (for Open Access journals, repositories, and discovery services) would be rallying managers of libraries...
The Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) will conduct a virtual workshop on Identity Federation services in cooperation with the national...
TCC Africa is partnering with the Association of African Universities (AAU) in co-hosting #openaccessweek2020. Featuring speakers from AAU, The Botswana...
NREN managers in the WACREN region and beyond would converge on Zoom on 9 and 21 October 2020 for a webinar on business models With the intent to empower NRENs...
This virtual workshop comes as a continuation and follow up on the LIBSENSE-III Workshop held in Tunisia during 26 – 28 April 2019. It will include...
In the framework of the UNGA75, Innopharma, Ireland, will host a webinar entitled “High-tech skills to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals” which will...
On Monday-Friday 14-18 September 2020 at 0900-1300 UTC the Africa Internet Summit (AIS’20) will be held online. The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual...
Supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union Commission (AUC), IST-Africa Week 2021 (May) is the sixteenth in an annual series of Ministerial...
UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce that its 13th annual research and education networking conference, UbuntuNet-Connect 2020, will be held as a virtual...
The Africa-EU AERAP science platform will organise a virtual conference on the 9-10 September 2020. Entitled “A New Era for Africa-EU Science and Innovation...
WACREN will be hosting the next LIBSENSE webinar Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and the role they play in building open research infrastructures. Persistent...
With the support of AfricaConnect3, the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) and the African Group on Earth Observation (AfriGEO) are...
After a competitive selection process with over 850 applications, the AfricaConnect3 project has been selected as one of the 100 projects to be showcased at...
NIH will host a series of online-only, interactive panel discussions beginning in August 2020 featuring information on the funding opportunity announcements...
Words: Hastings Ndebvu In an effort to support the improvement of research and education standards across the African continent, UbuntuNet Alliance in...
e-AGE20, the 10th edition of the International Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment will be held in virtually during 15-16...
TNC21 will take place on 21-25 June 2021 and will be fully online! It’s time to say it: When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade! Therefore, GÉANT...
The digitization phenomena characterised by new technologies innovated out of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is shaping 21st century in many...
Due to the unprecedented circumstances during the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect the health and well being of IST-Africa Community Members, IST-Africa 2020 will...
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