UbuntuNet-Connect 2017

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Session 4a - Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration

Session 4b - Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education

Closing Plenary

Registration

Session 1 - NREN as Facilitators of Intra-African Collaboration

Session 2 - Libraries, Access to Information and Research and Collaboration

Session 3 - Projects for Intra-African Collaboration

Opening Session

Cocktail

Advanced Routing & BGP Workshop

Advanced Routing & BGP Workshop

Advanced Routing & BGP Workshop

Advanced Routing & BGP Workshop

Service Deployment Clinic

Service Deployment Clinic

AfricaConnect2

Service Deployment Clinic

AfricaConnect2

Open Science

Board Meeting

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A Pilot Survey on Institutional Enablers and Barriers Affecting the Evolving Role of Librarians in African Higher Educational Institutions (in session "Session 2 - Libraries, Access to Information and Research and Collaboration")

AFriNIC Updates for improved Engagement with the REN Community (in session "Session 3 - Projects for Intra-African Collaboration")

Blockchain technology: Facilitating collaborative research via Intellectual Property sharing (in session "Session 4a - Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration")

Building and Strengthen National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa through Intra-African Collaborations (in session "Session 1 - NREN as Facilitators of Intra-African Collaboration")

Collaboration in Academia: Motives, Forms and Impacts on scientific Productivity (in session "Session 4b - Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education")

Cross-continent collaboration for advanced research (in session "Session 4b - Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education")

Developing A Virtual Computing Lab for REN Community (in session "Session 4a - Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration")

Developing Effective Public Awareness Communication Strategy to Stimulate the Role of NRENs in Intra- African Collaboration Strategies (in session "Session 4b - Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education")

Developments in regional SADC Cyberinfrastructure to support Collaboration,Open Data and Open Science (in session "Session 2 - Libraries, Access to Information and Research and Collaboration")

Digital Tools for Collaborative Research (in session "Session 4a - Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration")

Facilitating content distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa through Software-Defined Exchange Points (in session "Session 4a - Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration")

Forging Meaningful Synergies between NRENs and CSPs - The Case of Uganda’s NREN (RENU) (in session "Session 1 - NREN as Facilitators of Intra-African Collaboration")

Goodwill Messages from Partners (in session "Opening Session")

Governance model for Educational Roaming (eduroam) in African research institutions (in session "Session 4a - Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration")

Growing a Data-Ready Continent: Every Contribution Counts (in session "Session 4b - Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education")

ICANN: Securing the DNS and the KSK rollover (in session "Session 3 - Projects for Intra-African Collaboration")

Introduction and Welcome Remarks by the CEO of EthERNet (in session "Opening Session")

Mapping the research collaboration networks in computer science: The case of central, eastern and southern African Countries. . (in session "Session 1 - NREN as Facilitators of Intra-African Collaboration")

MoRENet as a Platform for Intra-country Collaboration in Research and Education: Evidence Based on Analyses of Usage Patterns and Network Data Flows (in session "Session 1 - NREN as Facilitators of Intra-African Collaboration")

NRENs, library consortia and government: Nexus for democratic access to scholarship (in session "Session 2 - Libraries, Access to Information and Research and Collaboration")

Official Opening Remarks from the Ethiopian Minister of Education (in session "Opening Session")

Open Access, Open Science, Open Data: Who will benefit? A user profile (in session "Session 2 - Libraries, Access to Information and Research and Collaboration")

Peoples-uni: public health capacity building through online education (in session "Session 3 - Projects for Intra-African Collaboration")

Promoting Collaborative Research among State Universities in Zimbabwe through Identity Federation and Researcher Information Management (in session "Session 4b - Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education")

Registration (in session "Open Science")

Remarks from African Union High Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology (in session "Opening Session")

Remarks from Diamond Sponsor (in session "Opening Session")

Remarks from EU Delegation in Ethiopia (in session "Opening Session")

Remarks from EU DEVCO (in session "Opening Session")

Remarks from the Vice Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance (in session "Opening Session")

Reorganizing for Efficiency: Framework for National Education and Research Stakeholders Collaboration (in session "Session 1 - NREN as Facilitators of Intra-African Collaboration")

Research driven Innovation: A collaborative approach for developing countries’ research Uptake (in session "Session 2 - Libraries, Access to Information and Research and Collaboration")

Research Metrics: Does it matter in the African scholarship and collaboration? (in session "Session 4b - Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education")

Sustainable and effective pathways for International Research Collaboration: Evidence from Mekelle University, Ethiopia (in session "Opening Session")

Technical Capacity Building and the Growth of an NREN - Case Study: RENU since 2014 (in session "Session 1 - NREN as Facilitators of Intra-African Collaboration")

The case for IoT applications in Africa (in session "Session 4b - Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education")

The NEAAR Collaboration: Supporting low-cost PerfSONAR deployments for end-to-end perfomance monitoring (in session "Session 4a - Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration")

The Sci-GaIA project: final results, lessons learnt and opportunities for the African Communities of Practice (in session "Session 3 - Projects for Intra-African Collaboration")

Utilizing Virtual Learning and a Virtual GIS Computer Laboratory in Spatial Sciences Learning for the Expanded Open Distance Education at Mzuzu University (in session "Session 4a - Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration")

Welcome Remarks by the CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance (in session "Opening Session")

Welcome Remarks from African Open Science Platform (AOSP) (in session "Open Science")

Welcome Remarks from the host, EthERNet (in session "Open Science")

Welcome Remarks from UbuntuNet Alliance (in session "Open Science")

Welcome Remars from the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS) (in session "Open Science")

Without data, science is merely an opinion: the African Open Science Platform project (in session "Session 2 - Libraries, Access to Information and Research and Collaboration")

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