30 October 2016 to 4 November 2016
Imperial Golf View Hotel, Entebbe/Uganda
Africa/Kampala timezone

Programme

Conference Programme

Time Activity
07:30-08:30 Registration
08:30 - 10:10 Opening Session
Director of Ceremonies: Hastings Ndebvu
08:30-08:40 Introduction and Welcome Remarks by the CEO of RENU
Eng. Isaac Kasana
08:40-08:50 Welcome Remarks by the CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance
Dr Pascal Hoba
08:50-09:00 Remarks from the Vice Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance
Dr. Iman Abuel Abdelrahman
09:00 09:30 Goodwill Messages
NORDUnet, GEANT, WACREN, RedCLARA, ASREN, ISOC, NSRC, INASP, WORLD BANK, AAS
09:30-09:50 Remarks from Representative of the EU Delegation in Uganda
Elizabeth Ongom
09:50-10:10

How ICT and Collaboration with NRENs are Changing the Face of Higher Education
Prof. Deirdre Carabine

10:10-11:00 Group Photo, Tour of Exhbitions and Health Break
11:00-13:00

Session 1: Building and Expanding the NREN

Chairperson: Dr. Boubakar Barry, CEO, WACREN
Rapporteur: Abdullahi Bihi Hussein 

11:00-11:20

Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR)
Jennifer Schopf

11:20-11:40

The Role for NRENs in Internet Standards Development
Kevin Chege

11:40-12:00

When is it an African NREN: Building a Vibrant and Sustainable National Research and Education Network in Africa
Benjamin Eshun

12:00:12:20

Improving quality education and research capacity through advanced ICT Services: Lessons of NREN implementation in Sierra Leone
Thomas Songu

12:20-12:40

NRENs and Schools
Duncan Martin

12:40-13:00

Exploring the potential of future elastic networks on National Research and Education Networks
Diarmuid O'brian

13:00-14:00  Lunch and Exhibition
14:00-16:30

Session 2: Virtual Collaboration Tools and Platforms for Research and Education

Chairperson: Dr. Khalid Elbadawi, CEO, SudREN
Rapporteur: Emmanuel Afutu, RUFORUM

14:00-14:20

Video and Web conferencing-as-a-Service for African NRENs: The route to realisation
Rob Bristow

14:20-14:40

Video- Conferencing for Outreach Communication Strategy to Enhance Academic Publishing and Research Communication in Africa
Wilson Okaka

14:40-15:00

Grid computing, compute and data storage services
Jude Iyke Nicholars

15:00:15:20

A collaborative research review platform for enhancing project quality in Universities in Zimbabwe
Tatenda Gotora

15:20:15:40

Using trust federations for Virtual Research Organizations at research centers in Mali and Uganda
Christopher Whalen

15:40:16:00

The Case for Digital Spaces at Daeyang University
Chifundo Chilivumbo

16:00-16:30  Health Break
16:30-17:30

Session 3: Networks and Security

Chairperson: Yousef Torman, Co-Managing Director, ASREN
Rapporteur: Dr. Benjamin Gyampoh, African Academy of Sciences

16:30-16:50

Securing A Campus WLAN
Joan Masai

16:50-17:10

Deploying Educational Roaming (eduroam) in a Rural Research Institution in Rakai, Uganda; Challenges and Lessons Learned
Lloyd Ssentogo

17:10:17:30

The Global Network Architecture (GNA) - Shifting Gears on Intercontinental Research Networking
Erik-Jan Bos

20:00-22:00 Meet and Greet Cocktail
 

Day 2: Friday 4th November 2016

Time Activity
08:00-10:00

Session 4: Open Data and Access to Scientific Information

Chairperson: Prof, Lourino Chemane, CEO, MoRENet
Rapportuer:

08:00-08:20

EOSC and the Free Riders
Margareth Gfrerer

08:20-08:40

Mobile Gateway for Open Educational Resources (OER): A case with University of Swaziland libraries
John Paul Anbu

08:40-09:00

Knowledge Intermediation Strategies: Novel Evidence from Canada
Namatié Traore

09:00-09:20

The research performance and citation impact of Tanzanian scholars: a scientometric study
Raphael Zozimuzi Sangeda

09:20-09:40

Towards better access to scientific information: The Case for Transforming Scholarly Communication Model in the African Region
Joseph Kavulya

09:40-10:00

Towards parabiotic partnerships for access and discovery: Leveraging access to econtent within the framework of library consortia in Zimbabwe.
Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita

10:00-10:30 Health break and Exhibition
10:30-12:30

Session 5:  Enhancing Research and Collaboration through regional and global projects

Chairperson: Duncan Martin, UbuntuNet Alliance
Rapporteur: Benjamin Eshun, Ghanaian Academic and Research Network

10:30-10:50

Global Science Communities
Tania Altamirano-Lopez

10:50-11:10

Sharing the global research services: MAGIC and VI-SEEM projects
Ognjen Prnjat

11:10-11:30

African Science supported by the Sci-GaIA project
Roberto Barbera

11:30-12:30


Session 6:  Roundtable discussion on Optimising the Impact of NRENs on Africa’s Research

Moderator: Prof. Meoli Kashorda, CEO, KENET
Rapportuer: Joan Masai, KENET

 

Panelists:
•    Mr. Ben Ruhinda, Senior Systems Officer, Inter University Council of East Africa
•    Dr Benjamin Gyampoh, Director, Climate Impact Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement (CIRCLE), African Academies of Science

12:30:13:30 Lunch and Exhibition
13:30-15:30

Session 7: Applications for Enhanced Service Delivery 

Chairperson: Erik-Jan Bos, Policy & Strategy Officer, NORDUnet
Rapportuer: Dr. Collence Chisita, Harare Polytechnic Information Science School, Zimbabwe

13:30-13:50

Label generation rules for the Internet’s root zone for African scripts
Yaovi Atohoun

13:50-14:10

Leveraging Inter-Institutional Connectivity to Facilitate Weather Data Transmission from Automatic Weather Stations in Uganda: A cost-benefit analysis
Maximus Byamukama

14:10-14:30

Design of an executable solutions management platform based on virtual machine snapshots
Christopher Robert Shoniwa

14:30:14:50

Low Altitude Remote Sensing and its Application in Precision Agriculture: A Case Study of Traditional Authority Somba in Blantyre District, Malawi
Donnex Chilonga

14:50-15:10

 

Responding to the demands of big data scientific instruments through the development of an international software defined exchange point (SDX)
Julio Ibarra

15:10-15:30

A Technical Evaluation of the Performance of Classical Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Methods Based on Computational Intelligence (CI) i.e. Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Ensemble and Immune Algorithms in Intrusion Detection Systems.
Kudakwashe Zvarevashe

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30

Closing Plenary

Director of Ceremonies: Hastings Ndebvu
16:00-16:10

Closing Speech
H.E Hugo Verbist, Belgian Ambassador to Uganda

16:10-16:20 Conclusion and Way Forward 
Bonny Khunga
16:20-16:25

Closing Remarks- Chairperson of Board of Directors of RENU
Prof. Michel Lejeune

16:25-16:30

Closing Remarks from CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance
Dr Pascal Hoba 

17:50:18-30 Data Sharing and Connectivity
Dr. Pascal Hoba, UbuntuNet Alliance, Manj Sandhu, University of Cambridge
19:15-22:00 Closing Dinner