Category archive for ‘Newsroom’

• Aug

  2010

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  The UbuntuNet Alliance needs experts volunteers for NRENs (0)

  

  The UbuntuNet Alliance invites expert volunteers to offer their support through Capacity Building for NRENs. As fibre infrastructure rolls out to and within Africa, there’s the increasing need for human capacities to design, roll out, operate the infrastructures and indeed to deal with the multiple challenges of running NRENs in developing economies.

   
• Aug

  2010

  17

  A new submarine fibre optic cable in the East African coast (0)

  

  EASSy, went on live on July 16, 2010, is the third cable to land on the East African coast after SEACOM and TEAMS. The cable is owned by 16 commercial telecom entities with 92 per cent owned by African operators and 8 per cent by international operators (the West Indian Ocean Cable Company – WIOCC – is the single largest investor).

   
• Aug

  2010

  17

  The UbuntuNet Alliance’s Intra-Africa optical fibre Network (0)

  

  While there are several maps showing the undersea fibre cables laid around the coast of Africa (the map of Steve Song has been internationally recognised), there is little data on the coverage of fibre in the hinterlands.

  The first attempt to give a complete picture of Intra-Africa’s terrestrial internet coverage comes from the UbuntuNet Alliance, who has recently published a map tracking the existing and upcoming fibre in the hinterlands of the African continent including the fibre for telecommunications, general purpose national backbones and utility companies.

   
• Aug

  2010

  16

  2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference – New event sponsor: eLearning Africa (0)

  

  eLearning Africa is the largest international conference on ICT for development, education and training on the African Continent.

  The 6th conference will take place from May 25–27, 2011 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,. Every year the conference grows, drawing in an increasing number of participants from Africa (80%) and beyond. Starting with 832 participants in Addis Ababa in 2006, the number increased to 1778 in Lusaka, Zambia.

   
• Jul

  2010

  29

  9th Call for proposals (FP7 Research Infrastructures Programme) (0)

  

  With an indicative budget of EUR 95 million, the ninth call aims at supporting the existing research infrastructures, the construction of new infrastructures as well as the policy development and programme implications. The topics of the call include: 1/. INFRA-2011-1.2.1: e-Science environments; 2/.INFRA-2011-1.2.2: Data infrastructures for e-Science; 3/. INFRA-2011-2.3.1: Second implementation phase of the European High Performance Computing (HPC) service PRACE; 4/. INFRA-2011-3.4: Coordination actions, conferences and studies supporting policy development, including international cooperation, for e- Infrastructures; 4/. INFRA-2011-3.5: Trans-national cooperation among NCPs.

   
• Jul

  2010

  23

  2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference – New Associated Partner: Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) (0)

  

  eI-Africa is very pleased to welcome a new associated partner to the “2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference”.

   
• Jul

  2010

  22

  African Union Continental Scientific Award 2010 (0)

  

  The Commission of the African Union (AUC) is committed to support the use and development of science in Africa and has initiated with its key development partners the African Union Scientific Award Programme. The objective of this programme is to award Cash Prizes and Recognition Certificates to excelling African researchers for their achievements in Earth and Life Sciences, and Basic, Science, Technology and Innovation sectors.

   
• Jul

  2010

  22

  2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference – Pre-registration form available! (0)

  

  The “2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference” is an event designed to anyone with an interest in e-Infrastructures. This Conference represents a unique opportunity for all parties involved in e-Infrastructures (from strategy to management) to increase the visibility of their activities, to network, and expand their knowledge.

   
• Jul

  2010

  21

  51 new FP7 Calls published to the EU Cordis website! (0)

  

  The European Commission has just published (July 20, 2010) 51 new Calls for Proposal covering the four main FP7 Specific Programmes: Cooperation, Capacities, Ideas and People. The full texts of the Calls are published to the FP7 section of the Cordis website.

   
• Jul

  2010

  21

  EU FP7 Work Programmes for 2011 just released! (0)

  

  The European Commission has recently adopted and released the new Work Programmes for 2011 providing additional details for the implementation of each of the 5 Specific Programmes of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7):