NREN Maturity Workshop

Friday 1 Apr 2022, 09:00 → 13:00 Africa/Blantyre

Online

This webinar is part of the ongoing NREN Development Study being carried out by UbuntuNet Alliance, RENATER (the French NREN), IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) and CIRAD (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement), with support from AFD (Agence française de développement).

AFD funds, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world as a contribution of France and French people to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).. The group has more than 4000 projects in 115 countries focusing on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban development, health and governance.

The webinar will discuss the preliminary findings of the survey launched in December 2021 and review the NREN Maturity Matrix. The matrix looks at five areas of an NREN, namely: governance, business model, technical services, services for users and human resources. The output of the workshop will be used to map NRENs based on where they are in terms of the 5 areas. The project is part of AFD’s way of understanding African NRENs and may lay the foundation for potential future funding.

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09:00 → 09:15 Introduction and Welcome Remarks

• Workshop Introduction
• Welcome remarks from UbuntuNet Alliance (Prof Madara Ogot, UbuntuNet Alliance)
• Welcome remarks from RENATER (Jean Narvaez, RENATER)
• Participant introductions (roundtable)

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome Remarks from AFD and Objectives of the Partnership

• Presentation from AFD (Aïda Ndiaye, AFD and Mathilde Cournut, AFD)
• Objectives of the AFD Partnership (Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia, RENATER; Tiwonge Banda, UbuntuNet Alliance and Damien Alline, IRD)

09:30 → 10:45 Update on NREN Governance Issues and Main Challenges during past 18 months

• Overview of NREN Governance Issues (Tiwonge Banda, UbuntuNet Alliance)
• MAREN SWOT Analysis (Solomon Dindi, MAREN)
• iRENALA SWOT Analysis (Harinaina Ravelomanantsoa, iRENALA)
• KENET SWOT Analysis (Prof Meoli Kashorda, KENET)

10:45 → 11:00 Health Break

11:00 → 12:30 NREN Maturity Matrix

• NREN Business Models (Joël Sor, CIRAD)
• Maturity Matrix (Damien Alline, IRD and Michel Labadie, IRD)
• NREN Matrix Exercise: NREN Self assessment (Michel Labadie, IRD and Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia, RENATER)

12:30 → 12:45 From Matrix to Regional Roadmap

Speaker: Damien Aline (IRD)

12:45 → 13:00 Conclusion and Next Steps

Speakers: Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia (RENATER), Aida Ndiaye (AFD), Prof. Madara Ogot (UbuntuNet Alliance)