Conference Programme
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 07:30-08:30 | Registration |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | Opening Session Director of Ceremonies: Hastings Ndebvu |
| 08:30-08:35 | Introduction and Welcome Remarks by the CEO of EthERNet Mr. Zelalem Assefa |
| 08:35-08:40 | Welcome Remarks by the CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance Dr Pascal Hoba |
| 08:40-08:45 | Remarks from the Vice Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance Dr. Hellicy Ng'ambi |
| 08:45 -08:50 |
Remarks from African Union Commission TBC |
| 08:50 09:05 | Remarks from Diamond Sponsor |
| 09:05-09:15 | Goodwill Messages (1 minute each) Academy of Science of Ethiopia, ASREN, GEANT, Internet Society, NSRC, WACREN, World Bank |
| 09:15-09:20 |
Remarks from representative of the EU delagation in Ethiopia |
| 09:20-09:25 |
Remarks from EU DEVCO Representative |
| 09:25-09:35 |
Official Opening Remarks from Ethiopian Minister of Education |
| 09:35-09:50 |
Sustainable and effective Pathways for International Research Collaboration Dr. Mulubrhan Gebrimikael |
| 09:50-10:30 | Group Photo, Tour of Exbitions and Health Break |
| 10:30-12:30 |
Session 1: NRENs as facilitators of Intra-African Collaboration |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Building and Strengthen National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa through Intra-African Collaborations |
| 10:50-11:10 | Mapping the research collaboration networks in computer science: The case of central, eastern and southern African Countries. Charles MARWA |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Forging Meaningful Synergies between NRENs and CSPs - The Case of Uganda’s NREN (RENU) |
| 11:30:11:50 |
MoRENet as a Platform for Intra-country Collaboration in Research and Education: Evidence Based on Analyses of Usage Patterns and Network Data Flows |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Reorganizing for Efficiency: Framework for National Education and Research Stakeholders Collaboration |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Technical Capacity Building and the Growth of an NREN - Case Study: RENU since 2014 |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch and Exhibition |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Session 2: Libraries, Access to Information and Research and Collaboration |
| 13:30-13:50 |
A Pilot Survey on Institutional Enablers and Barriers Affecting the Evolving Role of Librarians in African Higher Educational Institutions |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Open Access, Open Science, Open Data: Who will benefit? A user profile |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Without data, science is merely an opinion: the African Open Science Platform project |
| 14:30:14:50 |
NRENs, library consortia and government: Helical Nexus for democratising access to scholarship in Zimbabwe |
| 14:50:15:10 |
Research driven Innovation: A collaborative approach for developing countries’ research Uptake |
| 15:10:15:30 |
Developments in regional SADC Cyberinfrastructure to support Collaboration,Open Data and Open Science |
| 15:30-16:00 | Health Break |
| 16:00-17:20 |
Session 3: Projects for Intra-African Collaboration |
| 16:00-16:20 |
The Sci-GaIA project: final results, lessons learnt and opportunities for the African Communities of Practice |
| 16:20-16:40 |
AfriNIC updates for improved engagement with the REN community |
| 16:40:17:00 |
Peoples-uni: public health capacity building through online education |
| 17:00-17:20 |
ICANN: Securing the DNS and the KSK rollover |
| 19:00-21:00 | Conference Dinner |
|
Day 2: Friday 3th November 2017 |
|
| Time | Activity |
| 08:00-10:20 |
Parallel Session 4a: Tools and e-Infrastructure required for Intra-African Collaboration |
| 08:00-08:20 |
Facilitating content distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa through Software-Defined Exchange Points |
| 08:20-08:40 |
Governance model for Educational Roaming (eduroam) in African research institutions |
| 08:40-09:00 |
Digital Tools for Collaborative Research |
| 09:00-09:20 |
The NEAAR Collaboration: Supporting low-cost perfSONAR deployments for end-to-end performance monitoring |
| 09:20-09-40 |
Blockchain technology: Facilitating collaborative research via intellectual property sharing |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Developing A Virtual Computing Lab for REN Community |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Utilizing Virtual Learning and a Virtual GIS Computer Laboratory in Spatial Sciences Learning for the Expanded Open Distance Education at Mzuzu University |
| 10:20-10:50 | Health Break |
| 08:00-10:20 |
Parallel Session 4b: Tracking and Contributing to Intra-African Collaboration in Research and Education |
| 08:00-08:20 |
Cross-continent collaboration for advanced research |
| 08:20-08:40 |
Collaboration in academia: Motives, forms and impacts on scientific productivity |
| 08:40-09:00 |
Growing a data-ready continent: Every contribution counts |
| 09:00-09:20 |
The case for IoT applications in Africa |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Promoting Collaborative Research among State Universities in Zimbabwe through Identity Federation and Researcher Information Management |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Research Metrics: Does it matter in the African scholarship and collaboration? |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Developing Effective Public Awareness Communication Strategy to Stimulate the Role of NRENs in Intra- African Collaboration Strategies Prof Wilson OKAKA |
| 10:20-10:50 | Health break and Exhibition |
| 10:50-11:50 |
Session 5: Roundtable Discussion on the role of NRENs in enabling Intra-African collaboration in research and education |
| 11:50-12:30 |
Closing Plenary |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Concluding Presentation on the Ethiopia and general regional and international collaboration TBC |
| 12:10-12:20 |
Closing remarks from CEO of EthERNet |
| 12:20-12:30 |
Concluding remarks from CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance |
| 19:00-22:00 | Meet and Greet Cocktail |
