PROGRAMME
(as of 11 March 2018)
Monday 12th March 2018
Workshop: Routing and Switching in NRENs, BGP and NREN Peering – Hôtel 2 Février
Tuesday 13th March 2018
Workshop: Routing and Switching in NRENs, BGP and NREN Peering – Hôtel 2 Février
WACREN NREN CEOs Meeting (by Invitation) – Hôtel 2 Février
WACREN NREN CTOs Meeting (by Invitation) – Hôtel 2 Février
WACREN Board Meeting (by Invitation) – Hôtel 2 Février
Wednesday 14th March 2018
Workshop: Routing and Switching in NRENs, BGP and NREN Peering – Hôtel 2 Février
AfricaConnect2 Admin Meeting - AM (by Invitation) – Hôtel 2 Février
AfricaConnect2 Coordination Meeting – PM (by Invitation) – Hôtel 2 Février
18.30 – 20.00 WELCOME RECEPTION
Venue: Hôtel 2 Février
19.00 – 21.00 REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
Venue: Hôtel 2 Février
Thursday 15th March 2018 --- Venue: Hôtel 2 Février
08.00 Registration continues
09.00 – 09.05 WELCOME REMARKS
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Welcome Remarks: Dr. Eyouléki Venant Palanga, Coordinator, TogoRER
09.05 – 10.30 PLENARY SESSION I – Paper Presentations
Chair: Pascal Hoba, UbuntuNet Alliance
Rapporteur: Daouda Meïte, RITER
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Technologie de l’information et de la communication et représentations des usages des apprenants en ressources numériques en Côte d’Ivoire (Laby Clément Lobo)
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Une Roadmap des services pour WACREN et les NREN (Jean-François Guezou)
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Performance Monitoring and Verification in the WACREN network (Antoine Delvaux)
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Building Collaborative Capacities for Innovative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Lessons of NREN-Library Consortium Ecosystem in Sierra Leone (Miriam Conteh-Morgan, Thomas Songu) --- Remote
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Sponsors’ Minute: HUAWEI (Silver Sponsor)
10.30 – 11.00 Tea Break
`11.00 – 13.00 PLENARY SESSION II – Paper Presentations
Chair: Yousef Torman, ASREN
Rapporteur: Urszula Chomicka, Internet2
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GEANT - Tour du Monde (Cathrin Stöver)
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The NEAAR Collaboration: Developing Strategies for International End-User Engagement (Edward Moynihan)
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International collaboration to help build capacity for open access in Africa (Kathleen Shearer & Pedro Principe) - Remote
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In The Field is happening around you (Veronika Di Luna)
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Numérisation, bibliothèques électroniques et libre accès : entre renforcement de capacités et perspectives en Afrique francophone (Pier Luigi Rossi)
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
15.00 – 16.30 OPENING CEREMONY (PARTICIPANTS AND GUESTS TO BE SEATED BY 14.30)
Chair: HE Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, President of the Republic of Togo
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Welcome Remarks: Dr. Boubakar Barry, CEO, WACREN
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Opening Remarks: Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor, Chairman of the Board, WACREN
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Goodwill Messages: AAU, African Union Commission, European Union Commission, AfDB, ECOWAS, UEMOA, UbuntuNet Alliance, ASREN, GEANT, ICANN, ISOC, RENATER, NSRC, Internet2.
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Sponsors’ Presentations:
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XON (Gold Sponsor)
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MainOne (Gold Sponsor)
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Opening Address: Prof. Octave Nicoué Broohm, Minister of Higher Education and Research of Togo
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Official launch of the WACREN network: HE Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, President of the Republic of Togo
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Videoconference with REN leaders around the world (GEANT, ASREN, CLARA, NORDUnet, RENATER, RENU)
16.30 – 17.15 Group Photograph
Tea Break
17.15 – 18.30 PLENARY SESSION III – Paper Presentations
Chair: Cathrin Stöver, GEANT
Rapporteur: Hastings Ndevbu, UbuntuNet Alliance
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Internet2: supporting the US R&E Community into 2018 (Urszula Chomicka)
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R/NRENS as Catalysts for Development: Learning from Eastern & Southern African Networks (Ane Johnson)
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African Open Science Platform (Ina Smith)
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Bibliothèques et NRENs (Cecille Ouattara Coulibaly, Minata Traoré)
20.00 – 22.30 Gala Dinner
Venue: TBD
Friday 16th March 2018 --- Venue: Hôtel 2 Février
08.00 Registration continues
09.00 – 10.30 PLENARY SESSION IV – Paper Presentations
Chair: Sabine Jaume, RENATER
Rapporteur: Owen Iyoha, Eko-Konnect
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Cybersecurity as a service: The POC tool/platform for design and implementation (Elisabetta Zuanelli) --- Remote
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Universal Acceptance (Yaovi Atohoun)
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Bootstrapping the African eduroam Confederation (Chris Rohrer)
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Is the Global NREN community ready to support Transnational Education? (Esther Wilkinson)
10.30 – 11.00 Tea Break
11.00 – 12.30 PLENARY SESSION V – Paper Presentations
Chair: Koffi Akpagana, TogoRER
Rapporteur: Veronika Di Luna, GEANT
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How National Research and Education Networks (NREN) can assist universities to cope with the growing student numbers and to qualify lecturers (Margareth Gfrerer)
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Availability, accessibility and acceptance of of advanced digital technologies among higher education students with special needs in Oyo State, Nigeria (Kelechi Lazarus)
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Unleashing Potentials in Network & Security Automation in an era of Software-Defined everything (SDx) (Joel Amao) --- Remote
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Sponsors’ Presentation: Togo Telecom (Connectivity Provider)
12.30 – 12.45 CLOSING
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 WACREN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING