Africa Training Initiative
Building the capacity required to operate research and education digital infrastructure across Africa — structured training for engineers, system administrators, and cybersecurity professionals.
About the Programme
About ATI
The Africa Training Initiative (ATI) is a technical capacity development programme designed to build and strengthen the expertise required to operate research and education digital infrastructure across Africa.
As universities and research institutions increasingly rely on digital platforms for research collaboration, digital learning, and open science, the need for skilled engineers to deploy and operate complex infrastructure continues to grow. ATI addresses this need by providing structured capacity-building programmes for IT engineers, system administrators, cybersecurity professionals, and infrastructure operators across the research and education community in Africa.
Across the Research & Education
Ecosystem
WACREN capacity development supports the entire research and education ecosystem — from NREN leadership through technical infrastructure operators to the research and scholarly communities that rely on digital infrastructure for discovery, collaboration, and knowledge dissemination.
ATI Contributes to Africa's Wider Digital Ecosystem
NREN Academy
Leadership and sustainability programmes for National Research and Education Network communities across Africa.
ExploreTrustBroker Africa
Cybersecurity collaboration and CSIRT development across the continent, building incident response capacity.
ExploreeduID.africa
Federated identity infrastructure for the research and education community across African institutions.
ExploreLIBSENSE
Open science repositories and research data infrastructure platforms for African universities and institutions.
ExploreAfrica Digital Campus
Distributed digital learning environments for higher education across Africa, enabling remote and blended learning at scale.
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