Browsing UbuntuNet Connect 2016 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
EOSC and the Free Riders
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)Big Data, Open Science and Technology are the topics on the agenda of the European Commission (EC) on one side and on the other side, ministries, research funding organizations, universities and public research institutions ... -
When is it an African NREN: Building a Vibrant and Sustainable National Research and Education Network in Africa
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)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 ... -
A Collaborative Research Review Platform for Enhancing Project Quality in Universities in Zimbabwe
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016-11)Software project quality in Zimbabwean universities has greatly depreciated due to exhaustion of many Information Technology (IT)- related topics and an infested reliance on the copy-paste philosophy from past researches ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ...