Browsing UbuntuNet Connect 2016 by Title
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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 ... -
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Leveraging Inter-Institutional Connectivity to Facilitate Weather Data Transmission from Automatic Weather Stations in Uganda
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)The use of Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) for Environment monitoring by the Uganda National Meteorological Authority has increased massively over the past 15 years. This increase is mainly due to the savings in time, ... -
Low Altitude Remote Sensing and its Application in Precision Agriculture: A Case of Nzathu Farm in Traditional Authority Somba in Blantyre District, Malawi
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)The practical application of Low Altitude Remote Sensing (LARS) in Precision Agriculture (PA) has tremendously gained ground recently. This is despite concerns about the viability of such systems for farmers related to the ... -
Mobile Gateway for Open Education Resources (OER): A case with University of Swaziland libraries
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)Open educational resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes. Around the globe there are a number of initiatives which are being ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Responding to the demands of big data scientific instruments through the development of an international software defined exchange point (SDX)
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)Science is being conducted in an era of information abundance. The rate at which science data is generated is increasing, both in volume and variety. This phenomenon is transforming how science is thought of and practiced. ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Towards parabiotic partnerships for access and discovery: Leveraging access to e-content within the framework of library consortia in Zimbabwe
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)The age of intelligence presents library consortia in Zimbabwe with an opportunity to innovate, reinvent and re-profile in order to effectively disseminate research and scholarly communication as well as keep abreast of ... -
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. ... -
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 ...