#africaconnect3 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #africaconnect3, aggregated by home.social.
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eduGAIN is expanding across Africa! 🌍
Five new countries: 🇹🇬 Togo, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇲🇼 Malawi, 🇬🇭 Ghana, and 🇹🇿 Tanzania have joined, bringing the total on the continent to 14. 🎉
At the heart of this progress is eduID.africa (by UbuntuNet Alliance & WACREN under #AfricaConnect3), and now more researchers and students can now access global services with one trusted identity.
👏 Congrats to all involved in this milestone!
Learn more: https://connect.geant.org/2025/04/15/five-new-african-members-join-edugain
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#Research4Life, UbuntuNet Alliance and GÉANT—with support from the EU and #AfricaConnect3 —are making secure, seamless access to academic resources a reality for institutions across Eastern and Southern #Africa.
Through the Federated SSO pilot, students and researchers in #Kenya, #Malawi, #Zambia, #Uganda can now securely access academic content with their institutional credentials, removing the need for shared passwords and enabling flexible, remote access.
https://connect.geant.org/2025/02/21/simplifying-access-to-research4life-resources
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MARWAN, the #Moroccan #Research & #Education #Network, recently welcomed a significant #connectivity upgrade from Rabat to London, where it peers with the GÉANT network with onward traffic to other R&E networks around the world.
The #AfricaConnect3 project team spoke to Redouane Merrouch, MARWAN Director; Yahya Tayalati, leading high-energy physicists at UM6P and Hassnae El Jarrari, Research Physicist at #CERN 👉 https://africaconnect3.net/marwan-boosting-connectivity-in-morocco/
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Together with @nordunet and The Guild, we are wrapping up just now the NEXUS event: Highlighting the infrastructure for #research & #education community, sponsored by #AfricaConnect3.
So many engaging discussions happened today in Brussels, with contributions from @unesco, DG-INTPA, RENU, Uppsala Uni, Makerere Uni, LUT Uni, Stellenbosch Uni on examples of successful collaborations between African & Nordic universities as well as policy and investment mechanisms to achieve #infrastructure equity
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What a fantastic workshop #WACREN! 😊 Two days full of interactive working, presentations & great discussions towards NREN business models and the concepts of Trust & Identity and Open Science. Many thanks to the great participants & the organization team in Accra 🇬🇭! #GARNET #AfricaConnect3 @geant
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🤩 We are so excited! The workshop „Business Models and the Expansion of the NREN’s Service Portfolio“ #WACREN will start this morning in Accra🇬🇭 And our colleague Leonie has the honour to be one of the facilitators😊 @geant #AfricaConnect3 #GARNET Check the details! 👉 https://indico.wacren.net/event/185/
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In today’s complex world, successful project implementation and external engagements are key for #NRENs to achieve their objectives.
Our Advocacy and Engagement Manager, Nicky Wako, examines why developing concrete internal #policies is important.
👉 Read the full article: https://connect.geant.org/2023/07/03/developing-and-implementing-internal-policies-in-support-of-project-implementation-and-external-engagement-objectives
🔎 Featured on #CONNECT43, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine https://connect.geant.org/connect43
#partnership #africaconnect3 #engagement #policy #trust #projects
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The #AfricaConnect3 team wrote a paper in collaboration with KENET, RENU and TENET - a guidebook on how @eduroam works and the benefits and challenges for its users, institutions, #NRENs and municipalities in #Africa.
Check it out 👉 https://africaconnect3.net/eduroam-in-africa-a-guidebook/
#eduroam #education #research #connectivity #mobility #southafrica #kenya #uganda #students #love2eduroam
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💪 SDG 17 is about achieving the other United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) collaboratively & sustainably!
Research & Education Networks
🙌 foster international partnerships
🌍 connect across borders
🚀 enable access to Research & Education resources for global impactRead about the efforts of African RENs in the latest #AfricaConnect3 blog https://africaconnect3.net/partnering-to-maximise-sdg-actions-sdg-17-the-efforts-of-african-rens/
#sustainabledevelopment #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #partnerships #community
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#love2eduroam ♥️ GÉANT's Leila Dekkar, Project Manager of the #AfricaConnect3 project talks about #eduroam in #Africa at the 18th IST-Africa Conference in Pretoria 🇿🇦
With students and researchers becoming more and more mobile, African #NRENs are harnessing the power of the secure wireless Internet connection of eduroam!
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#Research & #Education #Networks are making the world a better place to live!
But how?
By helping tackle urgent social issues and thereby accomplishing significant progress in the achievement of United Nations #SDGs!
Evidence of the contribution of African RENs to the SGD is laid out in the latest paper produced by the #AfricaConnect3 project communications team, in collaboration with the wider African R&E community.
Read it here: https://africaconnect3.net/spotlight-on-rens-and-un-sdgs-making-the-world-a-better-place-to-live/
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📚Access to #education is a fundamental human right and one of the #SDGs.
✨#NRENs in #Africa prove inspirational to the world in achieving SDG 4 and are making concrete progress towards a better planet for leaners.
Read #AfricaConnect3 blog to find out how ▶️ https://africaconnect3.net/african-networks-ensuring-inclusive-equitable-quality-education-for-all-sdg-4/
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🚀 Space #technology and remote sensing applications in the Arab region contribute to the UN #SDGs by helping monitor #marine resources, air #pollution, movement of sand dunes, oil spills and rising sea levels.
🙌 The EgSA-Egyptian Space Agency calls for more regional collaboration: https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/space-technology-in-the-arab-world-the-need-for-cross-country-collaboration-to-achieve-sdgs
👉 This news is also featured on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine! Read/download here:
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🚀 Space #technology and remote sensing applications in the Arab region contribute to the UN #SDGs by helping monitor #marine resources, air #pollution, movement of sand dunes, oil spills and rising sea levels.
🙌 The EgSA-Egyptian Space Agency calls for more regional collaboration: https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/space-technology-in-the-arab-world-the-need-for-cross-country-collaboration-to-achieve-sdgs
👉 This news is also featured on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine! Read/download here:
https://connect.geant.org/connect42 -
🚀 Space #technology and remote sensing applications in the Arab region contribute to the UN #SDGs by helping monitor #marine resources, air #pollution, movement of sand dunes, oil spills and rising sea levels.
🙌 The EgSA-Egyptian Space Agency calls for more regional collaboration: https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/space-technology-in-the-arab-world-the-need-for-cross-country-collaboration-to-achieve-sdgs
👉 This news is also featured on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine! Read/download here:
https://connect.geant.org/connect42 -
🚀 Space #technology and remote sensing applications in the Arab region contribute to the UN #SDGs by helping monitor #marine resources, air #pollution, movement of sand dunes, oil spills and rising sea levels.
🙌 The EgSA-Egyptian Space Agency calls for more regional collaboration: https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/space-technology-in-the-arab-world-the-need-for-cross-country-collaboration-to-achieve-sdgs
👉 This news is also featured on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine! Read/download here:
https://connect.geant.org/connect42 -
🚀 Space #technology and remote sensing applications in the Arab region contribute to the UN #SDGs by helping monitor #marine resources, air #pollution, movement of sand dunes, oil spills and rising sea levels.
🙌 The EgSA-Egyptian Space Agency calls for more regional collaboration: https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/29/space-technology-in-the-arab-world-the-need-for-cross-country-collaboration-to-achieve-sdgs
👉 This news is also featured on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine! Read/download here:
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Standing up to people who are resistant to change can be intimidating, especially as a #WomanInSTEM.
Meet Aïda Snene, Secretary General of the Computing Center El-Khawarizmi (CCK) in #Tunisia, who did just this 👏
https://youtu.be/AhUIaljNVHw -
Standing up to people who are resistant to change can be intimidating, especially as a #WomanInSTEM.
Meet Aïda Snene, Secretary General of the Computing Center El-Khawarizmi (CCK) in #Tunisia, who did just this 👏
https://youtu.be/AhUIaljNVHw -
Standing up to people who are resistant to change can be intimidating, especially as a #WomanInSTEM.
Meet Aïda Snene, Secretary General of the Computing Center El-Khawarizmi (CCK) in #Tunisia, who did just this 👏
https://youtu.be/AhUIaljNVHw -
Standing up to people who are resistant to change can be intimidating, especially as a #WomanInSTEM.
Meet Aïda Snene, Secretary General of the Computing Center El-Khawarizmi (CCK) in #Tunisia, who did just this 👏
https://youtu.be/AhUIaljNVHw -
Standing up to people who are resistant to change can be intimidating, especially as a #WomanInSTEM.
Meet Aïda Snene, Secretary General of the Computing Center El-Khawarizmi (CCK) in #Tunisia, who did just this 👏
https://youtu.be/AhUIaljNVHw -
With all her achievements, Dr. Iman Abdelrahman is a pillar of our global Research & Education Networking #community!
Founder of #SudREN 🇸🇩 and coordinator of EIFL #Sudan she advocates for a shared vision and collaboration between #NRENs and #libraries 🤝
Interview on https://connect.geant.org/2023/03/09/connect-interview-dr-iman-abdelrahman-founder-of-sudren
This news is also featured on #CONNECT42, the latest issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine! Read and download here: https://connect.geant.org/CONNECT42
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💫 Our identity is our uniqueness.
Explaining eduID.africa: the T&I collaboration framework established as part of the #AfricaConnect3 project by the UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN and ASREN, also part of #eduGAIN.
What's the value for African #research & #education institutions? Check our blog https://africaconnect3.net/eduid-africa-advances-federated-identity-management-in-the-education-ecosystem-in-africa
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👏 Now available for download from the #AfricaConnect3 website!
A comprehensive document gathering hundreds of examples to evidence the African #NRENs’ critical participation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Download ➡️ https://africaconnect3.net/bringing-african-nrens-contributions-to-un-sdgs-to-the-surface/
Search for your NREN & be inspired by what other countries are doing!💫
Deepest thanks to those who have taken part in this initiative!