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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...

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)...

National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) worldwide are contributing in several ways to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); African NRENs are no exception. Though NRENs directly focus on the research and education  (R&E) niche, the outcomes and...

Students across the WACREN region and Africa are invited to join the competition to name the new EU Space Constellation. The new constellation of satellites are expected to enhance internet connectivity speed and coverage for Europeans as well as governments,...

All is set for WACREN 2022 Reloaded with webinar sessions on capacity building and infrastructure. These sessions will comprise presentations on research work conducted by members of our community and beyond on the above areas under open science. The two...

  We are happy to announce that registration is now open for WACREN Annual Conference [WACREN 2022 - In-person & online]. Please visit the Conference website for details and to register. We invite you to keep your eyes on the...

Open science is a global trend that has the potential to accelerate the rate of new discoveries and greatly increase the quality and impact of science in Africa. However, open science practices must be adopted in a way to ensure...

WACREN in colloboration with DFN (German NREN), RENATER (French NREN) will organise a day workshop on eduroam. eduroam provides simple, easy, secure connectivity to students and researchers from thousands of hotspots across more than 100 countries. Currently, five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Benin...