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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 ... -
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) ... -
Building Institutional Repositories in Sudan: Keys to Success
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)An Institutional Repository (IR) is a set of services that a university offers to its community members for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by its researchers and staff members. IR establishment ... -
Building National and Regional Cybersecurity Competences through the UbuntuNet Alliance NRENS
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Over the last 20 years, it has become routine in the more technologically developed countries to recognise what is considered critical infrastructure – infrastructure that, if damaged or knocked out would have serious ... -
Data Repositories and Science Gateways for Open Science
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)The steep decrease of costs of large/huge-bandwidth Wide Area Networks has fostered in the recent years the spread and the uptake of the Grid Computing paradigm and the distributed computing ecosystem has become even more ... -
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 ... -
Executable Infrastructure for Regional Collaboration
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)E-Infrastructure has, over the years, proven its worth in enabling scientific collaboration, even at regional and global scales. The adoption of common platforms such as HPC, data management, etc has made sharing of ... -
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 ... -
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” ... -
How to quadruple the reach and value of your NREN
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)Australia and Africa have much in common – vast distances, sparse population, heat, rain and of course the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). AARNet Pty Ltd (AARNet) is the Australian Research and Education Network in Australia ... -
Identity Management in SCIFI
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2015-11)SCIFI is a system for building large scale wireless networks. It is comprised of a open source software controller, replacement firmware for off-the-shelf wireless routers based on OpenWRT, two identity management systems, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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, ...