WACREN Conference 2019

Session

PLENARY SESSION V – Paper Presentations

15 Mar 2019, 11:00

Nkrumah Ballroom (Accra Marriott Hotel)

9. National Research and Education Network (NREN) Implementation in WACREN Zone: A Comparative Study

Dr Kanya Rislan (Baze University), Dr Yahaya COULIBALY (Agence Nationale de Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (AGETIC); Mali Research and Education Network (MaliREN))

NREN Business Models and Use Cases

Paper

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become important tools for offering quality higher education and facilitating world-class research. Nowadays, countries and institutions recognize that research and education networks are essential components of national infrastructures. A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a high performance communication network owned and...

14. National Research and Education Networks are a platform for data science capacity development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Mr Ssentongo Lloyd (NIH ICER Uganda)

NREN Business Models and Use Cases

Presentation

Two significant obstacles facing the training and development of data scientists and bioinformaticians in low- and middle-income countries such as those in Africa is the reliability and availability of internet access. The recent movement to expand and improve the capacity of the National Research and Education Networks in this region and others provides an opportunity to provide access to...