May 2023

More than 10,000 students and researchers in Côte d'Ivoire will now have access to high-speed, large bandwidth connectivity as the Virtual University of Côte d'Ivoire (UVCI) has become the first academic institution in the WACREN region to connect directly to...

LIBSENSE, RUFORUM make strides in partnership towards Agric data repository LIBSENSE and Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) have kick-started plans towards developing a data repository for African universities.  Among other things, the planned repository will enable...

Key players of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the education sector in West Africa have met in Abidjan to deliberate on plans to set up a regional and sustainable collaborative network on HPC. The main goals of this network are -...

In the last couple of years, the Library Support for Embedded NREN Services and E-infrastructure (LIBSENSE) has been engaging in a number of coordinated activities and initiatives to support the advancement of open science and open access in Africa.  Guided...

The Africa Digital Campus (ADC) is a new e-learning project WACREN is coordinating with the Institute for Research Development (IRD - a French agency) and is piloting in West Africa with Burkina Faso and Benin.  ADC is expected to help...

LIBSENSE has commenced broad-based discussion on research assessment reforms in Africa.  A recent workshop jointly organised with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) served as the platform for experts on the subject to share ideas and experiences on how Africa...

NREN CEOs and their top-level colleagues across the WACREN region gathered for a special webinar on eduroam. The objective of the webinar was to introduce the NREN community to the rudiments and requirements of the global WiFi authenticator and get...

Today, LIBSENSE unveils a new website to help support the growing community across Africa and beyond. The website is deemed as the ‘online office’ for the thriving initiative. Users can find all relevant information on LIBSENSE’s objectives, strategic pillars, governance...

The AfricaConnect3 project is organising a photography contest aimed at building a valuable photo repository that can be used to tell the story of the project. The five-month long Campaign is expected to end on April 6, 2022.  The Campaign...

Close to 30 participants, drawn from the Board of Directors, Members, Partners and Secretariat met for an in-depth conversation to chart a new path for WACREN and make it future-fit. The three-day exercise to plan for the next three years...

Trustbroker Africa (TBA) has held a week-long capacity and community building session for NREN security teams and participants from national CSIRTs in the Republic of Togo.  Modeled in the Train the Trainer format, 16 participants were schooled on the structure...

The second year of the AfricaConnect3 project officially ended on November 15, 2021. It has been a successful year of project activities and impact, despite the severe knock-on effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on various actors in the REN ecosystem...