July 8, 2013 WACREN has a CEO and a new Chair of Board of Directors The West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) held its 1st Annual General Meeting on the 3rd July 2013 at the National Universities Commission in Abuja, Nigeria, with ngREN, the Nigerian NREN, as host. The AGM was preceded... Read More
February 1, 2013 South-South: WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance formalise collaboration WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance recently signed an Operational Collaboration Agreement. The two recognize that they have common needs in their endeavors to interconnect their regional networks to each other; to major research and education networks; and commodity Internet Exchange Points... Read More
December 17, 2012 NigerREN holds First General Assembly The First General Assembly of the NigerREN was held on Saturday, December 15, 2013 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in the University of Niamey. Professor Habibou Abarchi, Rector of the Université Abdou Moumouni and chair of the NigerREN board... Read More
October 27, 2012 The Nigerian REN emerges The National Universities Commission (NUC) of Nigeria has started a procurement process for a backbone for the Nigerian Research and Education Network (ngREN). In this initial campus interconnection phase, the project office is inviting bids for IP/MPLS based network infrastructure... Read More
July 14, 2012 TogoREN is born After several years of collaboration, the TogoREN was finally born on July 13, 2012 at the University of Lome in the presence of the academic communities of Lome and Kara, and officials of private higher education and research managers in... Read More
November 30, 2011 WACREN at UbunutNet-Connect 2011 The president of the WACREN board of directors with counterpart, Prof. Zimani Kadzamira at the UbuntuNet-Connect 2011 which was colocated with the first AfricaConnect Administrative and Technical Meetings Read More
March 29, 2011 Dakar, March 25, 2011 - SenRER, the first NOC of WACREN At the joint workshop WACREN-RENATER-AAU cooperation, National Network for Education and Research of Senegal (SnRER) was designated as the first Network Operations Center (NOC) of WACREN. For this, a letter of intent has been exchanged between the Chairman of the... Read More
March 29, 2011 Dakar, March 23, 2011: Establishment of the Board of Directors of WACREN Following the meeting of representatives of 11 countries in West Africa and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo) in initiative of Research and Education Networking Unit (RENU) of the Association of... Read More
August 11, 2010 WACREN gets registered The West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) is now incorporated in Ghana as a “Private Company Limited by Guarantee”, with no shares. As such, WACREN can be considered as a not for profit association.As stated in the... Read More
August 5, 2010 WACREN prepares for participation in first phase of AfricaConnect The Association of African Universities (AAU) on behalf of WACREN has transferred funds to UbuntunetAlliance as fulfillment of requirements for participation in the first phase of the AfricaConnect Initiative. The African Union - European Union initiative aims to improve research collaborations and access... Read More
May 11, 2010 University of Ghana Legon and partners in the organisation of OAC 2009 contribute to WACREN The Organizing Committee of the Open Access Conference 2009 has recommended that funds left over from financial support provided by the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA) and Carnegie Corporation of New York should be transferred to the AAU towards the ongoing... Read More
