Conveners
UbuntuNet-Connect: Opening Session
- Hastings Ndebvu
UbuntuNet-Connect: Session 1: SMART Universities - Concepts, Characteristics and Technologies
- There are no conveners in this block
UbuntuNet-Connect: Session 2: SMART Teaching and Learning - Services and Tools
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UbuntuNet-Connect: Session 3: Roundtable Discussion on SMART Universities
- Tiwonge Banda (UbuntuNet Alliance)
UbuntuNet-Connect: Parallel Session 4b: smart Governance: Services and tools
- GEORGE KINYERA-APUKE (KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY)
- Nthabiseng Kotsokoane (AFLIA)
UbuntuNet-Connect: Parallel Session 4a: smart Governance: Services and tools
- CECILE OUATTARA EPSE COULIBALY (UNIVERSITE VIRTUELLE DE CôTE D'IVOIRE)
- Gakwaya Ben Ruhinda (Senior Systems Officer @ IUCEA)
UbuntuNet-Connect: Session 5
- Jasper Maenzanise (ZULC)
- Isaac KASANA (RENU)
UbuntuNet-Connect: Closing Plenary
- Hastings Ndebvu
UbuntuNet-Connect: Registration
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UbuntuNet-Connect: Meet & Greet Cocktail
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UbuntuNet-Connect: Day 2
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UbuntuNet-Connect: Dinner
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The minister for Education, Science and Technology
The panel is composed of representatives the two sub-regional university associations, an NREN CEO, a Vice Chancellor, and a Librarian
Identity management is a security discipline that involves identification, authentication and authorization of individuals to system or network resources. It is a process that provides confidence of resource access or denial, based on supplied identity information. The digital ecosystem space is dynamically changing with more online content but access management is still a challenging...
In October 2015 Namibia University of Science and Technology, then known as the Polytechnic of Namibia launched the first ever Namibia National Cyber Security Competition (NNCSC). Since its inception it has become a yearly event that brings together academia, students, industry and cyber security experts. A cyber security competition involves student teams that are either majoring or wish to...
Higher Education and Research science is being conducted in an era of information abundance. Sharing educational resources (e.g. Libraries, Curriculums, Online courses) and science resources, such as data, instrumentation, technology, and best practices, across national borders, can promote expanded global education goals and scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance discovery....
Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have been transforming the process of teaching and learning and has an imperative role in improving the quality of education, especially, today’s era of digital transformation, requires the use of digital technologies in educational institutions. Progress on the adoption of ICT in the provision of Higher Education has been grown rapidly...
Executive summary
Today’s World is looking at Africa, the continent of the 21st century.
Africa has a great challenge ahead in terms of education as its population is very young. Providing secure access to e-infrastructures and services is key to ensure education, research, with societal and economic impacts.
Universities, Research centers, and other institutions with similar activities, can...
Access to scientific research continues to be a challenge for the majority of the African higher education institutions and the academic community at large. Despite the efforts made by many organizations and institutions to curate and aggregate research content, and facilitate access to journals and other academic publications, very few institutions and researchers seem to have access to them...
E-learning is a process of learning through the use of Information Technologies (IT) to access teaching notes and materials technologies outside of the traditional classrooms. E-Learning technologies offers to learners the control over content, learning sequence, pace of learning, time, and often media, allowing them to tailor their experiences to meet their personal learning objectives...
Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows you to replicate others' work more easily. Researchers, journals, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive academic credit and web visibility.
This presentation will elaborate on the...
Whilst higher educational institutions are trying their best in complying with corporate governance best practices and recommendations, there is still an outstanding challenge on how to govern disruptive technologies. Most higher learning institutions in Africa depend on government aided grants for their day to day operations. Research grants channeled towards projects in universities is low...
Effective and efficient institutional university community service delivery of qualiity education, reswearch, and training are crucial for the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in African states like Uganda. At the moment most African university lack the minimum funding for a standard smart university service delivery of academic (education, teaching, research, and...
1.CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION PROCESS IN HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS
2.TEACHERS & STUDENTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
Management of research data is a service area of increasing interest to the academic libraries. This has been necessitated by the large volumes of data that is generated every day largely due to increased use of technology in all parts of research and the fact that research is now more collaborative and data intensive. The establishment of data management and sharing mandates by research...
Abstract:
As the world becomes more globalized and the economy becomes more knowledge-based, there is growing pressure on universities and other higher education institutions to become full economic and social development agents. More often than not, such a societal push for a new social contract for universities has resulted into smart universities generally defined as “a platform that...
As part of The Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR) collaboration, the International Networks@Indiana University (IN@IU) team has been working closely with the Ubuntunet Alliance to deploy perfSONAR nodes, to facilitate perfSONAR mesh development, and to train REN engineers how to use perfSONAR to monitor the networks they operate. The IN@IU team is also gathering flow...
Research & Development (Innovation) is considered as the driving force for economic development and growth of a nation’s economy. Therefore, worldwide governments assign considerable budgets for research works and the search for innovative ideas. However, the impact of the funded research on the economic growth and economic development widely remains uncounted. Research impact assessments are...
Smart technologies for them to retain their meaning, ought to be enablers in given spaces of application. In the same vain, adopting and implementing smart technologies should balance the tradeoff between usefulness and cost effectiveness. With emerging and disruptive trends in technology use, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm can be harnessed for the effective implementation and...
This paper outlines alternative metrics for measuring research output as opposed to traditional citation metrics like impact factors and H-index which are what a lot of researchers are privy to. The traditional citation metrics like impact factors and H-index tools are good alright but have a lot of limitations that goes against researchers especially the young ones as they become less visible...
The biggest challenge faced by African universities is the lack of adequate financing. The largest chunk of the budget goes to Software costs. The use of expensive proprietary software is prevalent in most universities. This has mainly been due to the general misconceptions associated with the use of open source software. Education delivery in Africa can only be enhanced by implementing and...
Higher education in Africa has been perceived by many as a way to further development goals, specifically by creating a sense of national unity, nurturing collective self-reliance, and reducing social inequalities (Samoff & Carroll, 2004). Oketch (2016) claimed that the best way for universities to impact development in Africa is by expanding access and improving the quality of higher...
Jisc, the UK’s National Research and Education Network (NREN), serves the UK’s research and education sector, providing a digital infrastructure that enables teaching, learning and research, nationally and internationally. Jisc is unique in bringing together both the technology (as the operator of the UK’s network, Janet) and digital content to provide technology services, library and data...
The development of new technologies enables learners to evolve with the information age by allowing them to learn more effectively, efficiently, flexibly and comfortably. In order to achieve smart universities, the concept of smart education may be introduced. This is learning in digital age and is increasingly becoming popular as new technology evolves. Learners can utilize smart devices for...
According to the World Economic Forum, Africa produces only 1.1% of global scientific knowledge. Research output in Africa accounts to less than 0.03% of the world’s research data and Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 0.72% of the global research output. There are many reasons attributed to the slow rate of research output from Africa. Mainly Africa relies largely on International partners to...
SMART TEACHING - THE CASE OF REMOTE TEACHING PROJECT BY KENET
Authors:
Zeinab Mzungu
Kenya Education Network, P.O. Box 30244 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: + 254 732150500, Email: zmzungu@kenet.or.ke
Joy Otuya
Kenya Education Network, P.O. Box 30244 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: + 254 732150500, Email: jotuya@kenet.or.ke
Meoli Kashorda, PhD, MIET, MIEEE
Kenya Education Network, P.O. Box 30244 -...
Abstract proposal – UbuntuNet Connect 2018
Author / presenter: Nicholas Krul – NEC XON Ltd
Sub-theme 1: SMART Universities: Concepts, Characteristics and Technologies
Proposed Topic: The journey to SMART universities
Key messages:
• The differences between “legacy” and SMART universities
o Connected vs. not connected institutions
o Information management and access
o Information- and...
There is an ever-growing need for data storage and computational resources in every education and research institution. This need has traditionally been addressed by the institution procuring servers and installing hardware in some form of primary data center facility at the institution. This remains the most preferred option for many institutions. This solution however, has to always be...
Addressing Sub-Theme 3: SMART Teaching and Learning: Services and tools
Papers under this sub-theme will address issues related to stand-alone or shared services and tools that seek to make ICT an integral part of the teaching and learning process. Topics could include strategies on engaging the current ‘digital...
Computer Security has become significantly important in this digital world and knowledge economy. Many universities have responded to the rise in the need for computer security by offering security courses within their curricula with components of computer security or that are entirely dedicated to computer security. The teaching of these courses presents a number of challenges like lack of...
