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Blockchain technology: Facilitating collaborative research via Intellectual Property sharing
(2017-11-02)Blockchain is the underlying technology on which CryptoCurrencies such as Bitcoin and Etherium are based. Blockchain is implemented via the use of a distributed ledger. Blockchain ensures permanence of information and ... -
Blockchain technology: Facilitating collaborative research via Intellectual Property sharing
(2017-11)Blockchain is the underlying technology on which CryptoCurrencies such as Bitcoin and Etherium are based. Blockchain is implemented via the use of a distributed ledger. Blockchain ensures permanence of information and ... -
Building and Strengthen National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa through Intra-African Collaborations
(2017-11-02)A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is both; 1) a high performance communications network owned and operated for and by the education and research community of a country and; 2) the organization that operates ... -
Collaboration in Academia: Motives, Forms and Impacts on scientific Productivity
(2017-11-03)With the Internet becoming readily available and cheaper, even in the most remote corners of the world, opportunities for exchanges of all kinds are more and more wide spread. This is true for the exchange of ideas, results ... -
Cross-continent collaboration for advanced research
(2017-11-03)We present a case study and lessons learnt in cross-continent collaboration (Europe, Africa, Asia) which covers the whole lifecycle of scientific research: from conception of ideas through collaborative work on large-scale ... -
Developing A Virtual Computing Lab for REN Community
(2017-11-03)National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) build and maintain advanced broadband networks that interconnect universities and research institutes. The NRENs not only provide basic Internet and shared services but are ... -
Developing Effective Public Awareness Communication Strategy to Stimulate the Role of NRENs in Intra- African Collaboration Strategies
(2017-11-03)We explain developing effective public awareness communication strategy will help to stimulate the role of NRENs s well as the regional RENs to spur the current and projected intra- African collaboration strategies for ... -
Digital Tools for Collaborative Research
(2017-11)Collaboration in research facilitate connecting researchers, exploration of literature, collaborative writing, publishing, evaluation, finding and sharing of data and code amongst a lot many research activities. A collection ... -
Facilitating content distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa through Software-Defined Exchange Points
(2017-11-03)Sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing region of international Internet capacity in the world. Content in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing: Microsoft is bringing two new data centers to South Africa, and Google and ... -
Forging Meaningful Synergies between NRENs and CSPs - The Case of Uganda’s NREN (RENU)
(2017-11-02)In the first five years of its existence, when RENU was not able to operate its own network, an ef-fort was made to establish a symbiotic relationship with a then leading commercial service pro-vider (CSP). A consortium ... -
Governance model for Educational Roaming (eduroam) in African research institutions
(2017-11-03)Educational Roaming, “eduroam” is a globally accessible, secure wireless service for members of participating universities and research institutions. eduroam is a widely used example of a technology that uses trust and ... -
Growing a Data-Ready Continent: Every Contribution Counts
(2017-11-03)The current acute shortage of computational, data management and analysis skills amongst researchers and practitioners has been described in numerous publications. Programmes have been developed to address this shortage ... -
ICANN: Securing the DNS and the KSK rollover
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Mapping the research collaboration networks in computer science: The case of central, eastern and southern African Countries
(2017-11-02)Purpose We conducted a scientometric analysis to determine the research collaboration networks in the field of computer science in central, eastern and South African countries. The study covered publications published ... -
MoRENet as a Platform for Intra-country Collaboration in Research and Education: Evidence Based on Analyses of Usage Patterns and Network Data Flows
(2017-11-02)MoRENet (Mozambique Research and Education Network) has been defined as a technological platform to support the collaboration between national research and education actors within the country, and between these and their ... -
The NEAAR Collaboration: Supporting low-cost PerfSONAR deployments for end-to-end perfomance monitoring
(2017-11-03)The Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR) collaboration, led by Indiana University and GEANT in partnership with the UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN, ASREN, SANReN, and TENET, is building a dynamic ... -
NRENs, library consortia and government: Helical Nexus for democratising access to scholarship in Zimbabwe
(2017-11-02)The propagation of NRENs in Africa is transforming the knowledge infospheres through providing internet connectivity to enhance research collaboration and shareability of research output among researchers irrespective of ... -
Open Access, Open Science, Open Data: Who will benefit? A user profile
(2017-11)The scientific community aspires about unlimited and open access to knowledge and information. Just a click and researchers enter the Nirvana of databases, libraries and communication platforms around the globe. Thanks to ... -
Peoples-uni: public health capacity building through online education
(2017-11-03)The mission of Peoples-uni (http://peoples-uni.org) is to build Public Health capacity to meet the enormous needs for improving the health of populations in Low- to Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Open content and open ...