Category archive for ‘Newsroom’

• Dec

  2011

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  Establishment of two new NREN in Niger and Cote d’Ivoire (0)

  

  WACREN membership has expanded to six with the coming online of the Niger and Cote d’Ivoire NREN.
  The consultation workshop on the implementation of the Niger NREN began Tuesday, November 15, 2011, under the patronage of HE Mamadou Diallo Youba, Minister of Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research. Before the opening address by the Minister, [...]

   
• Dec

  2011

  14

  KENET awarded best ICT projects implementer (0)

  

  Kenya Education Network (KENET), one of the founding NRENs of the UbuntuNet Alliance, is this year’s winner of the prestigious CIO 100 Annual Awards.
  The CIO East Africa CIO 100 Annual Awards recognise institutions that deploy ICT in an innovative manner while bringing out business value at the same time. The award was issued at a [...]

   
• Dec

  2011

  6

  Africa gets new ICT platform for health research (0)

  

  The European Commission has launched a project to improve health research and education in Africa by setting up excellence centres supported by advanced information and communications technologies (ICT).
  One of its foremost goals is to build networks of researchers and synergies with other cooperative health projects in Africa (e.g., led by Europe and the United States).
  The [...]

   
• Nov

  2011

  29

  Proceedings – 4th Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research (0)

  

  PPT presentations of the event are now available!
  Please note: if panelists didn’t use PowerPoints, their name is not listed in the table below (this is the case of sessions organised as roundtable and panel discussions)

  Monday, November 14

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• Nov

  2011

  3

  SMART Technologies: new sponsor – 4th Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research (0)

  

  SMART Technologies is a leading provider of collaboration solutions that transform the way the world works and learns. As the global leader in interactive whiteboards, SMART Technologies brings more than two decades of collaboration research and development to a broad range o

   
• Oct

  2011

  28

  ESMT celebrates its 30 Years Anniversary (0)

  

  Founded in 1981 by seven countries in West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Togo) with the support of international cooperation, the Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications (ESMT) has just celebrated its 30th anniversary. The four days ceremony, that took place on October 18-21, 2011 has been successfully closed by a speech [...]

   
• Oct

  2011

  19

  Attendee list now available! – 4th Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research (0)

  

  November 14-15, 2011
  The Cape Town International Convention Centre – South Africa
  An event held under the aegis of the EC, the AUC and the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership and hosted by the Government of South Africa through the Department of Science & Technology (DST).
  The agenda of the event is available here.
  Register now : seats are limited due [...]

   
• Oct

  2011

  13

  ACE: a new submarine cable between Africa and Europe (0)

  

  France Telecom-Orange announced on October 10, 2011 the landing in Penmarc’h, Brittany, of ACE, the new submarine cable serving 23 countries by linking France to South Africa.
  The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable, initiated by France Télécom-Orange and administered by a consortium of 17 operators, will link Europe to the West Coast of Africa [...]

   
• Oct

  2011

  13

  Report on Knowledge without borders – GÉANT 2020 (0)

  

  This report presents the GÉANT experts’ views on the future of the pan-European research and education network GÉANT. It makes specific recommendations to policy makers, funding bodies and the research and the education networks community for supporting and expanding knowledge communities, pushing state-of-the-art technology and adapting to change both from a governance and funding point [...]

   
• Oct

  2011

  12

  Lab visits – 4th Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research (0)

  

  [ November 15, 2011 ] The EuroAfrica-ICT partnership is very pleased to announce that the participants in the “4th Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research” will have the opportunity to visit the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) laboratories on November 15, 2011 in the afternoon (6:30 pm), just after the Forum.

  The main objectives of the CHPC are to enable [...]