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We are very close to that time of the year again, when all stakeholders of WACREN gather to have a conversation around topics that are pertinent to the advancement of the research and education community in Africa. The 2023 WACREN...

WACREN will conduct a 4-day training for campus network engineers at the Virtual University of Burkina Faso, from Monday, January 16 to Friday, January 19, 2023. This is part of capacity building efforts, under the Africa Digital Campus project, to...

Ghana's capital Accra is getting ready to host the 8th edition of the WACREN Conference of stakeholders. Next year's Conference is expected to build on the momentum of engagements with new communities within the WACREN region. The Conference will be...

WACREN is pleased to announce that National Computing Centre of Côte d'Ivoire (CNCCI) has joined WACREN. This brings to 18 the number of WACREN Member NRENs. The Ivorian state organisation was formally accepted into the WACREN family after satisfying all...

Students, researchers, scientists and educators across Africa's research and education landscape can now have secure and trusted access to global online resources as the eduID.africa Catch-All Federation joins the eduGAIN interfederation. eduID.africa is the identity and access management framework implemented...

The Ghanaian Academic and Research Network (GARNET) and the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) have agreed to cooperate towards the delivery of relevant infrastructure and interoperable open scholarly services to enhance the delivery of research, teaching...

Key stakeholders of Ghana's science, research, education and innovation ecosystem will converge at the ‘LIBSENSE Open Science Symposium - Ghana’ to deliberate on developing and executing a national action plan for Open Science in the country. The event is scheduled...

WACREN has recruited four additional professionals to beef up its engineering team. Adding two DevOps Engineers and two NOC Engineers will help accelerate the delivery of technical infrastructure and advanced services to serve WACREN’s ever-increasing and dynamic community. With their...

Research and Education Networks (RENs) in Africa will take centre stage at the next Science Summit at the United Nations General Assembly 77 (UNGA77) hybrid event on September 21. 2022. The three regional RENs CEO will join other subject matter...

GARNET has announced a new team of Board Members and staff members to steer the strategic and administrative affairs of the Ghanaian NREN, respectively. The Board is a rich mix of experienced professionals and experts in the broad research and...

The Africa Digital Campus (ADC) project has been highlighted on a United Nations website dedicated to the Transforming Education Summit (TES). According to the UN webpage, TES "provides a unique opportunity to elevate education to the top of the global...