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Disaster Recovery (DR) involves processes that prepare an organization's crucial IT infrastructure to effectively recover from disasters, ensuring the resumption and restoration of essential services. Setting up a DR site is part of the business continuity plan of an organization within institutions ensuring minimal interruptions in case of a disaster. At AIC Kijabe hospital, the KENET Disaster Recovery service ensures business continuity by facilitating swift recovery of the data obtained during the administration of health care services which include emergency care, inpatient, outpatient, theatre, and dia...
In January 2016, KENET subscribed to Elsevier Scival web based research analytic tool that researchers among KENET member institutions to visualize their research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop strategic partnerships, identify and analyze new, emerging research trends, creating uniquely tailored reports. The data gathered from Elsevier Scival is used to measure research productivity and to discover research champions in areas such Engineering, Computer Science, Material Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. KENET use the data to advise members on...
KENET conducted a five (5) in-person training for System Administrators from February 26- March 1, 2024 at the KENET Training room. The training which was attended by 26 participants from 24 institutions focused on mastering the Fundamentals of Unix/Linux administration through a practical and hands-on approach. The course covered all aspects on Linux/Unix System administration including an introduction to Linux system administration, familiarization with the Unix and Linux shell scripts, command line tools and user management.
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KENET launched the remote teaching pilot project in 2017 aiming at exploring the possibility of using the KENET web conferencing platform to reduce the cost of teaching multiple classes through remote teaching.KENET partnered with three (3) universities to pilot remote teaching classrooms reducing the need for faculty to teach multiple satellite or rural campuses of the same university.The participating universities include University of Nairobi ( 3 remote teaching classrooms at main campus, Mombasa campus and Kisumu campuses), Catholic University of Eastern Africa (2 remote teaching classroom at main campu...
Digital inclusion refers to the efforts and policies aimed at ensuring that all individuals and communities have access to and effectively use digital technologies improving their digital skills.The goal of digital inclusion is to bridge the digital divide and create equal opportunities for everyone to participate in the increasingly digital and technology-driven aspects of modern society.