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 |
| 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 |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR) |
| 11:20-11:40 |
The Role for NRENs in Internet Standards Development |
| 11:40-12:00 |
When is it an African NREN: Building a Vibrant and Sustainable National Research and Education Network in Africa |
| 12:00:12:20 |
Improving quality education and research capacity through advanced ICT Services: Lessons of NREN implementation in Sierra Leone |
| 12:20-12:40 |
NRENs and Schools |
| 12:40-13:00 |
Exploring the potential of future elastic networks on National Research and Education Networks |
| 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 |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Video and Web conferencing-as-a-Service for African NRENs: The route to realisation |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Video- Conferencing for Outreach Communication Strategy to Enhance Academic Publishing and Research Communication in Africa |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Grid computing, compute and data storage services |
| 15:00:15:20 |
A collaborative research review platform for enhancing project quality in Universities in Zimbabwe |
| 15:20:15:40 |
Using trust federations for Virtual Research Organizations at research centers in Mali and Uganda |
| 15:40:16:00 |
The Case for Digital Spaces at Daeyang University |
| 16:00-16:30 | Health Break |
| 16:30-17:30 |
Session 3: Networks and Security Chairperson: Yousef Torman, Co-Managing Director, ASREN |
| 16:30-16:50 |
Securing A Campus WLAN |
| 16:50-17:10 |
Deploying Educational Roaming (eduroam) in a Rural Research Institution in Rakai, Uganda; Challenges and Lessons Learned |
| 17:10:17:30 |
The Global Network Architecture (GNA) - Shifting Gears on Intercontinental Research Networking |
| 20:00-22:00 | Meet and Greet Cocktail |
|
Day 2: Friday 4th November 2016 |
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| Time | Activity |
| 08:00-10:00 |
Session 4: Open Data and Access to Scientific Information Chairperson: Prof, Lourino Chemane, CEO, MoRENet |
| 08:00-08:20 |
EOSC and the Free Riders |
| 08:20-08:40 |
Mobile Gateway for Open Educational Resources (OER): A case with University of Swaziland libraries |
| 08:40-09:00 |
Knowledge Intermediation Strategies: Novel Evidence from Canada |
| 09:00-09:20 |
The research performance and citation impact of Tanzanian scholars: a scientometric study |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Towards better access to scientific information: The Case for Transforming Scholarly Communication Model in the African Region |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Towards parabiotic partnerships for access and discovery: Leveraging access to econtent within the framework of library consortia in Zimbabwe. |
| 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 |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Global Science Communities |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Sharing the global research services: MAGIC and VI-SEEM projects |
| 11:10-11:30 |
African Science supported by the Sci-GaIA project |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Moderator: Prof. Meoli Kashorda, CEO, KENET |
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Panelists: |
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| 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 |
| 13:30-13:50 |
Label generation rules for the Internet’s root zone for African scripts |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Leveraging Inter-Institutional Connectivity to Facilitate Weather Data Transmission from Automatic Weather Stations in Uganda: A cost-benefit analysis |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Design of an executable solutions management platform based on virtual machine snapshots |
| 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 |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Responding to the demands of big data scientific instruments through the development of an international software defined exchange point (SDX) |
| 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. |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Closing Plenary Director of Ceremonies: Hastings Ndebvu |
| 16:00-16:10 |
Closing Speech |
| 16:10-16:20 | Conclusion and Way Forward Bonny Khunga |
| 16:20-16:25 |
Closing Remarks- Chairperson of Board of Directors of RENU |
| 16:25-16:30 |
Closing Remarks from CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance |
| 17:50:18-30 | Data Sharing and Connectivity Dr. Pascal Hoba, UbuntuNet Alliance, Manj Sandhu, University of Cambridge |
| 19:15-22:00 | Closing Dinner |
