UbuntuNet Connect 2016
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UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 was held at Golf View Hotel in Entebbe, Uganda on 3-4 November 2016 and was be preceded by a series of other pre-conference events from 31 October to 2 November 2016. The events were hosted by the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU), the NREN of Uganda.
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Experiences with Global Science Communities
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NRENs and Schools
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Securing Campus Wireless LANs
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Deploying Educational Roaming (eduroam) in a Rural Research Institution in Rakai, Uganda; Challenges and Lessons Learned
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)The NIAID International Center for Excellence in Research (ICER) in Uganda, RHSP (Rakai Health Sciences Program) recently deployed the eduroam service at the laboratories and offices in the village of Kalisizo and the main ... -
Improving Quality Education and Research Capacity through Advanced ICT Services: Lessons of NREN Implementation in Sierra Leone
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)Sierra Leone is just 12 years from a devastating conflict and still suffers from serious gaps in its infrastructure. The average adult has had just 3.3 years of schooling, and adult literacy rates are around 43%. Among its ... -
The research performance and citation impact of Tanzanian scholars: a scientometric study
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)Purpose: A scientometric analysis was conducted to map the research performance and citation impact of Tanzania scholars from 1991 to 2015. The study analyzed the growth of the Tanzanians’ scholarly literature; ascertained ... -
Video- Conferencing for Outreach Communication Strategy to Enhance Academic Publishing and Research Communication in Africa
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)The paper presents the effectiveness of video-conferencing community outreach projects in enhancing research ethics communication for public awareness in Uganda. It sets out to establish how vital the practice of research ... -
Grid Computing, Compute and Data Storage Services
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)The development of grid computing is a cutting-edge technology that brings a number of benefits for many Universities and Research Institutions around the world. Grid computing enables Universities and Research Institutions ...