">Newsletter December 4, 2021 WACREN, AUF commit to cooperate 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... Read More
">Newsletter December 4, 2021 WACREN-IRD implementing Africa Digital Campus 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... Read More
">Newsletter December 4, 2021 UVCI joins WACREN 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... Read More
">Newsletter December 4, 2021 NREN CEOs to learn eduGAIN 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... Read More
">Newsletter December 4, 2021 eAGE 2021 goes online 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... Read More
">Newsletter September 8, 2021 UbuntuNet Connect 2021 to centre on R&E success stories despite COVID 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... Read More
">Newsletter September 8, 2021 e-AGE21 to focus on e-Infrastructure for science 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... Read More
">Newsletter September 8, 2021 TERNET Conference to focus on digital transformation 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... Read More
">Newsletter September 8, 2021 LIBSENSE National Roadmaps convene Open Science stakeholders across Africa 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... Read More
">Newsletter September 8, 2021 Nigerian REN community collaborate to establish Open Science Cloud The Nigerian REN community with technology partners have worked together to create an open science cloud. This allows the Nigerian R&E community in Nigeria and other stakeholders access to the cloud to complement their research and education practice. The simple... Read More
">Newsletter September 8, 2021 Stéphanie speaks about her AfricaConnect journey After six years of contributing to AfricaConnect and Africa’s digital transformation, our International Cooperation Officer at DG INTPA, Stéphanie Truillé-Baurens, is pursuing the next chapter of her career. Stéphanie’s enthusiasm and drive for developing National Research, and Education Networks (NRENs)... Read More
">Newsletter September 8, 2021 Stéphanie of EC says goodbye to AfricaConnect The EC official managing the AfricaConnect3 project - Stéphanie Truillé-Baurens has said goodbye to the project after six years of dedicated service. In a virtual farewell event, the African Regional Research and Education Networks (RRENs) CEOs took turns to express... Read More