• Proceedings and Report of the 9th UbuntuNet Alliance Annual Conference  

  Banda, Tiwonge; Ngwira, Margaret (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

• Experiences with Global Science Communities 

  Altamirano L., Tania (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

• NRENs and Schools 

  Martin, Duncan (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  Introduction: e-Schools Network NPC (“ESN”) is a Cape Town-based non-profit company that has provided Internet, email hosting and help desk support services to Schools in South Africa for many years. Recently the writer ...

• Label generation rules for the Internet's root zone for African scripts 

  Atohoun, Yaovi (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  ICANN is working to promote the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). This work will allow domain names to be completely represented in local languages and scripts of the world, by developing rules to determine valid ...

• Networks for European, American, and African Research: NEAAR 

  Schopf, Jennifer M. (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  The Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR) collaboration is a powerful, cross organizational project that will provide services and bandwidth connecting researchers in Europe, Africa, and the United ...

• The Global Network Architecture: Shifting Gears on Intercontinental Research Networking 

  Staphorst, Leon; Lotz, Len; Williams, Jim; Bos, Erik-Jan (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  Research and Education (R&E) Networks have been the uplink for researchers, scientists, educators, and students around the world, sometimes just starting and in some case already for well over 25 years. The R&E Networks ...

• Videoconferencing-as-a-Service for African NRENs 

  Bristow, Rob (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  The suggestion has been made (Bristow et al. 2015) (Isaac 2015) that there is an opportunity to leverage the installed infrastructure for both Video and Web conferencing in South Africa to extend the services to the NRENs ...

• Africa IETF initiative: The Role for NRENs 

  Chege, Kevin (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  Background: The Internet allows for ubiquitous communication globally thanks to the design, implementation and use of Open Standards. It allows us to communicate with anyone in the world using standards such as SMTP, DNS, ...

• Towards improved access to scientific information: The Case for Transforming Scholarly Communication Model in the African Region 

  Kavulya, Joseph M. (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  Despite the centrality of scientific information in the research enterprise, scientific communities in many parts of the developing countries including Africa have limited access to this vital commodity. This paper reviews ...

• Using trust federations for Virtual Research Organizations at research centers in Mali and Uganda 

  Whalen, Christopher (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  Research centers in low- to middle-income countries have historically been at a disadvantage participating in international collaborations, in many cases forced to depend on less reliable infrastructure and resources. ...

• The Case for Digital Spaces at Daeyang University 

  Chilivumbo, Chifundo (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  Daeyang University is a new University having opened its doors in 2010 as a Nursing College and has since expanded to include ICT(2014) and Medical Colleges(2015). Like any institution of higher learning it would like to ...

• Executable Infrastructure for Regional Collaboration 

  Becker, Bruce (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 ...

• Identity Management in SCIFI 

  Magalhães, Luiz Claudio Schara (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, ...

• Data Repositories and Science Gateways for Open Science 

  Barbera, Roberto (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 ...

• Building National and Regional Cybersecurity Competences through the UbuntuNet Alliance NRENS 

  Ndiwalana, Ali; Tusubira, Francis F. (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 ...

• Securing Campus Wireless LANs 

  Masai, Joan; Wanja, Maureen (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  Most KENET member institutions of higher learning have deployed a campus WLAN. The campus WLAN is deployed in areas across campus where most students have access, including lecture halls, hostels and social areas. However, ...

• How ICTs and Collaboration with NRENs are Changing the Face of Higher Education 

  Carabine, Deirdre (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  This paper presents a sustained argument for the university of today, and its academic and research staff, to make the best use of the facilities afforded by RENs to ensure that ICTs become the foundation for academic ...

• Design of an Executable Solutions Management Platform based on Virtual Machine Snapshots 

  Shoniwa, Robert; Fadaraliki, David; Catherine S, Monica; Marengereke, Tendai (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  Annually, dozens of software solutions are developed by students as part of the mandatory requirements for them to be awarded their respective degree qualifications. However, most of these potentially groundbreaking solutions ...

• Knowledge Intermediation Strategies: Novel Evidence from Canada 

  Traoré, Namatié; Amara, Nabil (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  This study investigates i) difference in knowledge intermediation strategies among knowledge and technology transfer organizations (KTTOs) and ii) the factors that explain such differences. It uses data from 212 Canadian ...

• A Technical Evaluation of the Performance of Classical Artificial Intelligence (AI) And Methods Based on Computational Intelligence (CI) i.e Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning And Ensemble Algorithms In Intrusion Detection Systems 

  Zvarevashe, Kudakwashe; Mapanga, Innocent; Kadebu, Prudence (UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)

  The emergence of new technologies in this dynamic information era has caused a tremendous increase in the rate at which data is being generated through interactive applications thereby increasing the movement of information ...

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