January 16, 2023 ADC Project: WACREN conducts 4-day technical training in Burkina Faso 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... Read More
November 23, 2022 Accra to host WACREN 2023 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... Read More
November 14, 2022 National Computing Centre of Côte d'Ivoire joins WACREN 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... Read More
October 28, 2022 eduID.africa joins eduGAIN 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... Read More
October 27, 2022 GARNET and CARLIGH agree to cooperate to enhance Open Scholarly Infrastructure 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... Read More
October 11, 2022 Accra prepares for LIBSENSE Ghana Open Science Symposium 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... Read More
September 9, 2022 eNGAGE VI published eNGAGE [WACREN quarterly newsletter] no six has been published in English and French Get up-to-speed with all the latest in the WACREN community. Read More
August 24, 2022 WACREN beefs up its team with four new technical staff 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... Read More
August 23, 2022 Africa RENs to make a case for relevance at UN Science Summit 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... Read More
August 22, 2022 GARNET announces new Board, new staff 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... Read More
August 22, 2022 Africa Digital Campus featured on UN website 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... Read More
August 15, 2022 UA-Connect 2022 to focus on 'redesigning digitized' HEIs This year's edition of the UbuntuNet-Connect will focus on 'Redesigning the Digitized African College and University' - a pertinent post-COVID subject matter. Conference participants will share experiences, discuss and chart the way forward on how African higher education institutions (HEIs)... Read More