Welcome and Opening Remarks

Goodwill Messages

Opening Address - Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Togo

NREN Reports – Where do we stand at country level?

General discussion

Sponsors’ minute

Presentations

• Khoudia Sy Guèye (snRER)
• Joseph Odoi (MainOne)
• Roland Kouakou (ECOWAS)
• Omo Oaiya (WACREN)

Building and operating a large campus network – UCAD’s case (Khoudia Sy Guèye, snRER) Sustainable and Cost-effective REN Infrastructure for West & Central Africa (Omo Oaiya, WACREN) ECOWAS Policy on Science, Technology and Innovation (Roland Kouakou, ECOWAS) Regional connectivity solutions platform for HEIs in WA and Africa (Joseph Odoi, MainOne)

Sponsors’ minute

Presentation

• Phil Regnauld (NSRC)
• Sabine Jaume (RENATER)
• Pierre Dandjinou (ICANN)
• Foster Ofosu (AfDB)
• Fatma Ben Abda (AfDB)

Engagement of Academia in ICANN (Pierre Dandjinou, ICANN) Knowledge, Capacity Building and R&E Connectivity (Fatma Ben Abda & Foster Ofosu, AfDB) RENATER Network and Services (Sabine Jaume, RENATER) Virtualization: Systems and Services for Network Operations (Phil Regnauld, NSRC)

Network and Campus Best Practices

• Michel Labadie (IRD)

Sponsors’ minute

Virtualization: Systems and Network Capacity Building for RENs

• Phil Regnauld (NSRC)
• Alain Aina (NSRC)

Closing remarks

WACREN AGM