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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...

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...

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...

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...

Save the date: WACREN 2016 to be held in Dakar, Senegal, on 17 - 18 March 2016, hosted by snRER. More information soon.

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...

WACREN has successfully completed its second regional capacity building workshop.  The workshop was hosted by the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN) in Abuja on 28 September to 2 October and organized in collaboration with the Association of African Universities...

GÉANT, Europe’s leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for research and education, has appointed a new CEO, Steve Cotter, to complete the restructuring of the organisation and take on the challenges of a rapidly changing global science environment.Cotter is presently...

Prof. Nii Quaynor,  Chair of the WACREN Board received yet another award, this time for his demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the multistakeholder model at the ICANN53 meeting holding in Buenos Aires.Inductee into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame and recipient...

Eng. Dr Francis “Tusu” Tusubira, former CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance received the Network Information and Infrastructure Service Award (NI&I) Service Award 2015. This was announced on 4 June 2015 at the African Internet Summit in Tunis, Tunisia.The NI&I Service award...

[flickr-photo:id=17340815204, size=c]Boubakar Barry, CEO of WACREN, and David Lambert, President and CEO of Internet2, signed a MoU during the Internet2 Global Summit 2015 recently held in Washington DC.The main purpose of the MoU is to develop a framework for exploring...

Dear Members and Friends of the WACREN Community,Following the postponement of WACREN 2015 due to circumstances beyond our control, WACREN has received the offer from RITER, the NREN of Côte d’Ivoire, to host the event in Abidjan.Unfortunately, clashes with various...