May 2023

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...

The heads of WACREN and the Regional Office for West Africa of Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) have met to chart a course for cooperation between the two organisations for the benefit of the higher education and research community...

WACREN and the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) are jointly working to implement the pilot phase of the EU-funded Africa Digital Campus project in two countries in the WACREN region. Africa Digital Campus (ADC) is a project intended to...

The Virtual University of Côte d'Ivoire (UVCI) is the latest and 16th member of WACREN.   Being one of the famous virtual universities in the region, UVCI is now better positioned to offer the best digital academic services anchored on a...

The NREN CEOs and their C-level colleagues across the WACREN region will converge at a webinar to learn about federated Identity and the interfederation benefits through eduGAIN. Complementary to efforts to establish a framework for Trust and Identity through eduID.africa, the...

For the second time running, ASREN’s eAGE will be held fully online. This time, the date is 13 to 15 December 2021. ‘e-Infrastructure for Science and Beyond’ is the theme for the Conference, and it will be hosted by the...

UbuntuNet-Connect 2021 will take stock of the milestones and success stories the Research and Education community has so far achieved in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.  The Conference will be held as a hybrid event (online and in-person in...

The Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) will hold its flagship event - e-AGE21 from 13th to 15th December 2021. e-AGE is the grande forum for stakeholders of research and education in the Arab States to share practices and...

  Digital Transformation for Research and Education will be the focus for TERNET’s first international conference. The event is scheduled on 16th and 17th September, 2021.  The Conference is expected to draw local and international participants including practitioners, researchers, and...

Started as an initiative to foster Library-NREN collaboration to provide digital services for African libraries, outcomes from LIBSENSE surveys and workshops in the three African NREN regions identified the provision of open resources and librarian ability to support these as...