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
October 10, 2015 Second WACREN Regional Capacity Building Workshop successfully completed 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... Read More
August 20, 2015 GÉANT appoints Steve Cotter as new CEO 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... Read More
June 23, 2015 WACREN Chairman wins ICANN multi-stakeholder Ethos Award at ICANN53 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... Read More
June 22, 2015 Tusu receives the NI&I Service Award 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... Read More
May 22, 2015 WACREN and Internet2 sign a MoU [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... Read More
May 18, 2015 CANCELLATION OF WACREN 2015 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... Read More
March 17, 2015 Ubuntunet Alliance appoints Dr. Hoba AS CEO UbuntuNet Alliance, the Regional Research and Education Networking organisation for Eastern and Southern Africa, today announces the appointment of Dr Pascal Hoba as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Alliance with effect from 1st January 2015.Dr Hoba succeeds Eng. Dr Francis (Tusu)... Read More
February 4, 2015 Postponement of WACREN 2015 Dear WACREN Community and Friends,We are very sorry to inform you that due to recent geopolitical developments and other circumstances beyond our control, we are obliged to postpone the WACREN 2015 conference. We are now working on alternatives and will give... Read More
January 30, 2015 WACREN meets Minister of Communications of Ghana [flickr-photo:id=16292537797, size=c] Read More
January 27, 2015 WACREN meets Minister of Higher Education and Research of Togo [flickr-photo:id=16406659011, size=c] Read More