The CEOs of WACREN and MaliREN have signed on 11 August 2016 in Bamako an agreement for the participation of MaliREN in the AfricaConnect2 project.  The signing ceremony was chaired by the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Mali and attended by university Rectors, Director Generals of research institutions of Mali, representatives of the World Bank funded PADES project and other officials.

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“Mali is engaged in a deep reform of its higher education sector. There is no doubt that the AfricaConnect2 project will contribute to the improvement of the working environment of all our higher education and research institutions through high capacity connectivity, and thus to the achievement of the objectives of this major reform that Mali is pursuing with the support of the World Bank through the PADES project” 

Prof. Assétou Founé Samaké Migan,  Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Mali

“Through this agreement between WACREN and MaliREN for the proivision of connectivity and services to the Malian higher education and research community, the government of Mali has seized a unique opportunity for an unprecedented improvement of the connectivity of higher education and research institutions of Mali.

A thank you is due to the European Union for funding of AfricaConnect2 and to the World Bank, through the PADES project, for making available the needed funds for MaliREN to join the project.

WACREN and its partner GEANT extend a warm welcome to MaliREN to the AfricaConnect2 project”.

Dr. Boubakar Barry, CEO of WACREN

 

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