Kenya Education Network(KENET) has partnered with German Research and Education network to set up the first EDUROAM service in Africa.

EDUROAM is a federated roaming service that will allow users within the KENET network to roam with their laptops without the trouble of guest account at different campuses. Users will be authenticated by a central sever at KENET. This means a faculty member,for example, visiting or teaching at another university on EDUROAM can use the network of the other university as if he or she is on the home campus without the need for guest account or mobile Internet dongle. All e-journals and e-book access rights will be available to the faculty member. KENET will provide the additional Internet broadwidth required to support the roaming service. The same applies to the students.

However it should be noted that this is an authentication service and requires each university to have an operational directory service that controls the use of campus resources an example being LDAP and will work with whatever the wireless infrastructure an institution has set up as long as it uses modern standards.

EDURAOM is also a global service-that is if a member visits any university in Europe,Canada and Australia that have all implemented EDUROAM they will have access to the network and other research and learning resources without having to get a guest account. Some universities in US are also on EDUROAM.