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Annual Forum for Heads of Institutions - Confirmations and Call for Proposals for Presentations
KENET is pleased to inform heads of institutions that registrations and confirmations for the 6th Annual Forum of Heads of Institutions are now open. The annual forum shall be held at Mombasa Serena Hotel on December 10-11, 2014 as agreed during the December 2013 Forum. We especially welcome the CEOs of the new member institutions to mark the dates and confirm their attendance .
The arrival dates shall be December 9, 2014 and the Departure date December 12, 2014. Please confirm your availability to attend with Bernadette Mwandau by sending an e-mail to bmwandau@kenet.or.ke or calling 0732-150500 by Friday September 5, 2014. We shall start booking the tickets on September 1, 2014. For those who are new to the forum, all travel and full accommodation expenses for the CEO shall be paid by KENET. The full program shall be sent out once we have confirmations on the speakers. Please let us know if there is a special topic that you want discussed.
Call for Proposals for Speakers / Presentations
The theme of the 2014 Annual Forum shall be “Innovations in Developing a Critical Mass of Academic Area Experts and Researchers in Member Institutions”. We therefore invite proposals for presentations in the following areas:
- Institutional Strategies for Discovering and Developing Innovation and Research Champions in Areas of Engineering, Educational Technology, Health, Agriculture and Computer Science/Information Systems (focus areas in KENET strategic plan 2011-2015).
- Financing and Measuring the value of institution-based innovation hubs
- Developing Locally Relevant Open Content for Higher Education and Research
- Experiences with Institutional Financing of Medium-Scale and Large-Scale Research Projects (Research projects of $500,000 and above)
All presentations must describe the experiences of your institutions in the past one or two years and preferably demonstrate how ICT has been used to achieve positive results. In all cases, the presenters are expected to be the CEOs. The deadline for submission of outline proposals shall be September 15, 2014.