April 11, 2016 WACREN Board of Directors The current Board of WACREN is composed as follows:- Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor, Chair- Dr. Ousmane Moussa Tessa- Dr. Eyouleki (Venant) Palanga- Prof. Souleymane Oumtanaga- Dr. Joshua Atah- Dr. Boubakar Barry, CEO Read More
February 17, 2016 WACREN 2016 conference - Enabling Virtual Research and Education Communities WACREN is organizing its 2nd Annual Conference hosted by the Senegal Research and education Network (snRER). WACREN 2016 will be held at the Novotel Hotel, Dakar, overlooking the historic Gorée Island and Atlantic Ocean. Located in the famous Corniche seafront area and a short... Read More
February 16, 2016 WACREN gathers friends from the global REN community for a retreat on its network design in Goree Island [flickr-photo:id=24436090294, size=c]As part of procurement efforts for its network rollout in the Framework of AfricaConnect2, WACREN and friends from the global NREN community met recently in a retreat that combined subject matter expertise and experience with social and market intelligence.More... Read More
January 15, 2016 The Internet Society Pledges Support to African Research and Education Networks As part of a new agreement with the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), the Internet Society has announced today that it will contribute USD 120,000 to support activities targeting African Research and Education Networks (NREN), under... Read More
December 22, 2015 Register now! Registration is open for the WACREN 2016 conference to be held in Dakar, Senegal The programme is being finalised and it will include sessions on the thematic areas related to enabling virtual R&E communities. Talks will focus on NREN business and advocacy, teaching and learning, identity management and technology. Conference attendees will have the opportunity... Read More
December 22, 2015 Call for Papers – WACREN 2016 WACREN is organizing its 2nd Annual Conference on 17-18 March 2016 in Dakar, hosted by the Senegal Research and Education Network (snRER).The main theme of the conference is: "Enabling Virtual Research and Education Communities", with the following sub-themes:Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure... Read More
December 15, 2015 AfricaConnect2 to develop WACREN infrastructure in first pan-African research and education network PRESS RELEASE€26.6m Africa and EU internet project will transform African science and educationAccra, Ghana - 15 December 2015African research and education network associations WACREN, the UbuntuNet Alliance and ASREN have partnered with their European counterpart GÉANT in a €26.6m EU... Read More
December 9, 2015 WACREN enters agreement to increase visibility of researchers in the region WACREN and ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) will collaborate on community engagement around the use of persistent identifiers for researchers, works, and organizations in repository data systems and deposit workflows.ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier for researchers to distinguish... Read More
November 4, 2015 GARNET Hosts TANDEM Awareness and Dialogue Workshops in Accra GARNET will host the 1st National Policy Workshop of the TANDEM Project in the Balme Library at the University of Ghana, Legon on November 6 2015.This will be preceded by a NREN Focal Point community workshop and a meeting of... Read More
October 22, 2015 Save the date: WACREN 2016 in Dakar, Senegal, on 17 - 18 March 2016 Save the date: WACREN 2016 to be held in Dakar, Senegal, on 17 - 18 March 2016, hosted by snRER. More information soon. Read More
October 10, 2015 WACREN advances NREN Cloud Computing and Shared Services Strategy in Nigeria The Network Monitoring and Measurement workshop in Nigeria provided the opportunity to have several side meetings with datacenter providers and education stakeholders towards realisation of the WACREN cloud and shared services strategy.This included a visit to Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, the... Read More
