eNGAGE Newsletter

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...

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...