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Question Banks: A tool for improving Higher Education Assessment across National Resource Networks: The Polytechnic of Malawi case study
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Question Banks are used to increase the access to quality material for assessing the students in institutions of higher learning. A good question bank which is in line with the learning orientated assessment framework, ... -
Videoconferencing-as-a-Service for African NRENs
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)This paper describes recent developments in the capability of Videoconferencing and the associated opportunities for a shared videoconferencing offering for African NRENs. The improvements in inter-African network capacity, ... -
Achieving Smart Resource Management for Better Disaster Management using Space-based Technology in Lowershire Basin, Malawi
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Advancements in new geo-spatial technologies across the globe are seen as a way to advance the decision-making process of first responders before and after a disaster. Unstructured disaster information and an infrastructure ... -
How Tech Hubs are helping to drive economic growth in Africa: Background report for World Bank: World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Digital technologies have spread rapidly. Digital dividends—the broader development benefits from using these technologies—have not. Digital technologies to benefit everyone everywhere requires improving the “analog” ... -
Structuring and implementing the Brazilian Academic Cloud: strategy, modelling, challenges and services
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)This paper presents an overview of the strategies currently adopted by some National Research and Education Networks (NREN) to implement and offer scientific cloud computing services. It describes the constraints, opportunities ... -
Learning from Somalia and Ethiopia – the NREN as a tool for Building National Expertise: A co-authorship between SomaliREN and the World Bank
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Countries in the process of developing their ICT ecosystem often face the challenge of end users lacking the skills and information necessary for using the new technological service to its full capacity. States recovering ... -
The Making of MoRENet
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Although MoRENet has been defined in 2002 and included in the National ICT Policy Implementation Strategy of Mozambique as one of the priority projects in the area of education, only in in 2005 the pilot phase of this ... -
Research and Education Networks, Putting value into the links
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)In Zambia over the last four years we have concentrated on creating a National Research and Education Network which can connect our education and research institutions within the country, and the rest of the world. Indeed, ... -
MAGIC: A collaboration project to globally connect researchers and academics
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Building on the success of the ELCIRA project, RedCLARA - with partners from Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia and ... -
Experts’ Assignment Algorithm for Cloudbased Agro-advisory Service Information System (CASIS) using Weighted Sum Model: Piloting CASIS
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)A Cloud-based Agro-advisory Service Information System (CASIS) uses interactive operating mode where assignment of questions from farmers to experts is done manually. Questions as input to the system are received randomly ... -
Implementing Mconf web conferencing at the South African National Research and Education Network
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Mconf web conferencing has been launched successfully as a South African National Research and Education Network (SA NREN) production level service from July 2015. This web conferencing service is an Open Source Multi-conference ... -
Implementing perfSONAR in the South African National Research and Education Network
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)The South African National Research Network (SANReN) serves over 1 million users who expect high performance. To ensure optimal operation, rapid detection and correction of abnormalities is crucial. PerfSONAR is a network ... -
Managing Science and Technology: the Mozambican Ecosystem
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)The Current Research Information System (CRIS) emerges as an embracing paradigm for managing the multitude of Science and Technology (S&T) components and players. Instantiating its concepts and directives in the S&T ... -
National Research and Education Networks to support Healthcare: The Brazilian Telemedicine University Network RUTE
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Motivation: National Research and Education Networks NRENs world wide are expanding capacities, forming Academic Telehealth Community Collaboration of health scientists, bridging Science, Technology, Innovation, Education, ... -
Virtual Research Environment for value-added services in national and regional NRENs: case studies
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Case studies are presented for the role of national and regional NRENs beyond connectivity, encompassing computing (grid, cloud and High-Performance computing) services and big data management services. The case studies ... -
Useful Flexibilities for African Regional Research and Education Networks
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)The UbuntuNet Alliance is conceived of as an association of NRENs in a given region. The hierarchy Institutions → NRENs → Regional RENs characterises what may be called “the standard REN model”. Regional RENs provide transit ... -
Building a Cyber Security Emergency Response Team (CERT) for the NREN Community – The case of KENET CERT
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Kenya through the regulator, Communications Authority (CA) has setup a national Cyber Security Emergency Response Team (KE-CIRT). This national CERT in Kenya has several sector CERTs with the Kenya Education Network (KENET) ... -
Multi-conference rooms: architectural and technological view
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Meeting rooms, as well as classrooms, can be transformed in multimedia spaces that amplify collaboration and education. Computers, projectors, large displays, videoconference systems and wi-fi networks are examples of ... -
Eduroam implementation: Case Study Kenyatta University
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Kenya Education Network, (KENET), is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Kenya. KENET is licensed by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) as a not-for-profit operator serving the education and ... -
Support to Emerging NRENs
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)The UbuntuNet Alliance and the AfricaConnect project have led to the creation of various NRENs in Southern and Eastern Africa. Success stories of newly created NRENs can be found, for example, in Zambia or Uganda. But there ...