Browsing UbuntuNet-Connect 2017 by Title
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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 ... -
A Pilot Survey on Institutional Enablers and Barriers Affecting the Evolving Role of Librarians in African Higher Educational Institutions
(2017-11-02)Background African higher education institutions (HEIs), like many in this sector worldwide, are experiencing a confluence of forces that are set to influence the direction taken by these institutions in the foreseeable ... -
Promoting Collaborative Research among State Universities in Zimbabwe through Identity Federation and Researcher Information Management
(2017-11-03)Normally, the process of applying to universities in Zimbabwe is a generally redundant activity which involves filling in application forms to the multiple local universities using the exact same information on all forms. ... -
Reorganizing for Efficiency: Framework for National Education and Research Stakeholders Collaboration
(2017-11-02)National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) are involved with diverse activities ranging from core connectivity to simply brokerage. Some of the services are so indispensable to research and education institutions ... -
Research driven Innovation: A collaborative approach for developing countries’ research Uptake
(2017-11-03)This paper aimed at assessing the impact of the pre-incubation approach to students’ ideas uptake at the University of Dar es Salaam and establishes a framework with which the research uptake can follow suit. The first ... -
Research Metrics: Does it matter in the African scholarship and collaboration?
(2017-11-03)Review of literature reveals that Africa’s contribution to global knowledge and innovations is still rated at low. Scholarly communication in the region is bedeviled by among others, poor discovery and access to local ...