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Access to education is a fundamental human right at the heart of the SDGs. National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) are leaping barriers to education in the African world through e-learning. They provide higher education establishments and research centers with affordable...

The UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce the call for abstracts and panel session proposals for UbuntuNet-Connect 2023, which will be held on 26th and 27th October 2023 in Kampala, Uganda. UbuntuNet-Connect is the annual conference of the UbuntuNet Alliance, the regional...

The partners of the Africa Digital Campus (ADC) project have organized a 'Community Day' on e-learning at the Virtual University of Burkina Faso (UV-BF) in Ouagadougou. The goal was to facilitate the adoption of distance learning in higher education. This...

The University Joseph KI-ZERBO (UJKZ), represented by its President, Prof. Jean François KOBIANÉ, has received computer equipment from the President of the Virtual University of Burkina Faso (UV-BF), Prof. Jean Marie DIPAMA, as part of efforts to build the technical...

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...