Scientific collaboration for Africa and Latin America
Regional research and education networks in Africa and Latin America join forces to address United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other common challenges.
UbuntuNet (East & Southern Africa)
Enabling remote surgery and training in Uganda
New York’s Mount Sinai Health System extends its surgical knowledge and care to places where it is most needed and likely to have an impact.
Advancing online learning technologies in Zambia
When universities in Zambia closed down due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the Zambia Research and Education Network stepped in with its high capacity network to assist 22 of its member institutions deploy Moodle.
Ensuring students and faculty have access to online resources
The Kenya Education Network has collaborated with the country’s mobile service providers to provide data bundles at discounted prices to KENET institutions’ students and faculty members.
Powering up future communicators
Students of communication and journalism at higher learning institutions across 13 African countries can look forward to extensive virtual collaboration through a new digital platform, the All Varsity News Network.
Teaching and learning moves online for 11 universities in Somalia during COVID-19
Online teaching and learning in this period of the COVID-19 pandemic would have remained a far-fetched dream for some Somali universities if it were not for the timely intervention of the Somali Research and Education Network.
A new e-learning initiative for Africa
Africans of all ages will be able to benefit from access to distance learning following the establishment of the Pan African Virtual and E-University
Bridging 7000+ km to teach fisheries management
Fishery management experts from The Arctic University of Norway are teaching Somali students how to exploit their marine resources. The teaching collaboration features interactive live lectures allowing for two-way communication, questions and discussions.
Preserving a vital food source with the help of advanced research infrastructure
Scientists in Kenya and Australia collaborate on a research project to diagnose viruses that infect cassava, and sequencing whole cassava virus genomes in order to help eradicate infection.
TERNET leaps barriers to global teaching and learning
What does a modern teaching and learning facility that is part of a global institution of higher learning need to have to stay in touch with its partner campuses in other parts of the world?
Kenya Finland partnership boosts access to geoinformatics education and training to aid sustainable development
The groundbreaking TAITAGIS project aims at building a critical mass of postgraduates equipped to overcome the huge human resource deficit in Applied Geoinformatics in Kenya and Eastern Africa.
Ugandan students enhance university services and create jobs
Students at Kyambogo University in Uganda put their skills to good use building an application to improve services… and create a startup company ZEENODE, which results in jobs for themselves and the wider community along the way.