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WACREN is pleased to announce developments in its Secretariat staffing: Mr. Omo Oaiya is now Chief Strategy Officer in charge of Business Development and Mr. Alain Aina is now Chief Technology Officer. Mrs. Tigui Bah has joined the team as Executive...

WACREN and Vice Chancellors Ghana (VCG) have signed agreement for hosting the WACREN Secretariat at the VCG Office Complex in Accra.Office space as well as space to host the WACREN Network Operation Center (NOC) have been allocated to WACREN.Commenting on...

WACREN organizes its 7th regional capacity building workshop in Lagos, Nigeria from 26 - 30 November 2018.The workshop will be organized in collaboration with the Open CSIRT Foundation,  Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative, a cluster of the Nigerian NREN, the University...

WACREN wishes to thank all of those who have contributed to a successful WACREN 2018 in Lomé on 15-16 March 2018, which featured the formal launch of the WACREN network.The conference was preceded by a 3-day training workshop on BGP...

Programme and RegistrationYou can now register for the WACREN 2018 Conference and Annual General Meeting to be held in Lomé, Togo, on 15-16 March 2018. The WACREN network will be officially launched at this occasion.The Programme Committee has put together an...

WACREN is recruiting staff to fill the following positions:Finance and Administration Officer – Read more Communications and Marketing Officer – Read more Network and Systems Engineer –  Read morePlease share widely.

The West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) demonstrated its commitment to opening windows of opportunities for women, historically underrepresented in STEM fields, as it launched its first Women in WACREN event under the theme “Physical Computing with...

Cambridge and Accra |15 January 2018The EU-funded AfricaConnect2 project has just announced that, following the tender call to connect West and Central (W&C) Africa back in June 2016, GÉANT has awarded a 15-year contract to MainOne for connectivity services. By signing...

This “Women In WACREN” training and community event is held in collaboration with the Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative, a cluster the Nigerian NREN (NgREN), the Entrepreneurship & Skills Development Centre and Faculty of Engineering of the University of Lagos (UNILAG),...

(Luanda, Angola) 11 December, 2017 – Angola Cables today announced an agreement with the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), the regional research and education network (REN) that facilitates interconnections between national RENs in West and Central...

WACREN is organizing its 4th Annual Conference on 15-16 March 2018 in Lomé, hosted by TogoRER, the NREN of Togo.The main theme of the conference is: "WACREN – Unleashing Potentials", with the following sub-themes:i)        Advanced Network Technologies and Services (SDN,...

This first “Women In WACREN” training and community event is held in collaboration with SenChix, a women in technology group hosted by snRER, the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) and the...