eNGAGE Newsletter

National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) within the WACREN community will showcase how they are supporting the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) at a workshop in Gaborone, Botswana. The workshop, organised by the AfricaConnect3 project,...

After a successful launch in Burkina Faso, WACREN and its partners will turn their attention to Benin’s capital - Cotonou, in October 2022 for the Africa Digital Campus (ADC) project. The launch co-organised with the national agency for digital development...

  The Ghanaian Academic and Research Network (GARNET) has held its third Annual General Meeting at the University of Development Studies in Tamale. The AGM was attended by a host of key stakeholders in the GARNET community. They included representation...

  Sierra Leone has borne the brunt of the devastating effects of a protracted civil war from 1991-2001, the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This has impacted Sierra Leone’s higher education system, which has...

The 7th annual flagship conference had a lot of significant sides to it. First, it was the first time the annual event took place in a typical university environment; second, it recorded the highest number of participants in the conference's...

LIBSENSE’s action plan for South-South collaboration has begun to yield fruit for the Arab community in the ASREN region. A new agreement has been signed by ASREN and La Referencia/RedCLARA for information and infrastructure sharing between the two organisations with...

A memorable TNC22 closing plenary, led by GÉANT CEO Erik Huizer and featuring keynote speaker Dr Gihan Kamel, brought to an end a wonderful week full of learning, sharing, and collaborating (as well as catching up with old friends and...

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...