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• Apr

  2010

  27

  DORII Summer School 2010 (0)

  

  [ May 10, 2010 to May 11, 2010] The DORII Summer School on Remote Instrumentation in Grids will focus on real scientific application use-case; DORII architecture; the Instrument Element, the Instrument Manager; the Virtual Control Room; developing complex scenarios using Workflow Manager System; and advanced Visualisation.

   
• Apr

  2010

  26

  2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference – Venue confirmed! (0)

  

  The European Commission and the eI-Africa partnership are very pleased to announce that the ‘2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructure Conference’ (an event organised by the eI-Africa EU project under the aegis of the European Commission DG INFSO with the support of the Finnish Government and of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) will be held at the Scandic Marina Congress Center, in Helsinki, Finland.

   
• Apr

  2010

  15

  9th RoEduNet International Conference (0)

  

  [ June 24, 2010 to June 26, 2010] The conference is offering special opportunities for information exchange in computer networking: technical and strategic aspects, communication issues, and their application

   
• Apr

  2010

  13

  3rd Annual SADC ICT in Government Summit (0)

  

  [ May 13, 2010 to May 14, 2010] The event, which is taking place on May 13-14, 2010 at the Talatona Convention Centre (Angola), intends to explore challenges, limitations and constraints confronting the ICT ministries and state departments responsible for ICT and to map out plausible strategies, solutions, delivery mechanisms, best practices and case studies in order to facilitate knowledge exchanges.

   
• Mar

  2010

  30

  UbuntuNet Alliance Newsletter (NUANCE) – March 2010 (0)

  

  The March edition of the UbuntuNet Alliance’s monthly e-bullettin has been released and it is downloadable from the alliance’s website. Key content is news from, about, or of interest to National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa. Read the newsletter.

   
• Mar

  2010

  26

  The eI-Africa Project represented at ECRI2010 (0)

  

  The 6th European Conference on Research Infrastructures (ECRI2010) took place this week (March 23-24, 2010) in Barcelona, under the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU. In line with the previous and very successful events held in Strasbourg 2000, Trieste 2003, Nottingham 2005, Hamburg 2007 and Versailles 2008, the overall objectives of the conference were: 1/. to foster and develop the European Research Area through European Infrastructures; 2/

   
• Mar

  2010

  24

  ICT 2010 – Meet EuroAfrica-ICT & eI-africa there! (0)

  

  [ September 27, 2010 to September 29, 2010] ICT 2010 is Europe’s most visible forum for ICT research and innovation. This biennial event (co-hosted by the European Commission and the Belgian Presidency of the EU) has become a unique gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation. The ICT Event will focus this year on policy priorities such as Europe’s Digital

   
• Mar

  2010

  24

  eI-Africa in charge of organising a session at IST-Africa (0)

  

  [ May 19, 2010 to May 21, 2010] Hosted by the Government of South Africa through the DST and Supported by the EC (DG INFSO), IST-Africa 2010 will take place in Durban (ICC), on May 19-21, 2010. Part of the IST-Africa Initiative, which is supported by the EC under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7), IST-Africa 2010 is the fifth in an Annual Conference Series which brings together senior representatives from leading commercial,

   
• Mar

  2010

  22

  African Conference on FOSS & the Digital Commons – IDLELO 4 (0)

  

  [ May 17, 2010 to May 21, 2010] The 4th African Conference on FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and the Digital Commons will take place on May 17-21, 2010 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center of Excellency in ICT in Accra, Ghana, and will be chaired by the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama. This Conference will offer a real opportunity

   
• Mar

  2010

  22

  EPIKH final workshop (0)

  

  [ March 26, 2010 ] The Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How project (EPIKH) is a Marie Curie Action, funded by the European Commission, with partners worldwide. In South Africa, these include the Meraka Institute and the University of Cape Town. The strategic aims of the EPIKH project are to: reinforce the impact of e-Infrastructures in scientific research defining and delivering stimulating