Browsing UbuntuNet Connect 2016 by Title
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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Experiences with Global Science Communities
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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 ... -
Global Science Communities
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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 ...