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KENET conducted a five (5) day capacity building workshop for network/system administrators and ICT infrastructure managers from November 27- December 1, 2023 at the KENET Training room. The Scalable Campus Networks and Wireless LAN Design training was attended by 32 participants from 31 member institutions including universities, teaching hospitals, research institutions and university colleges. The training focused on mastering building of scalable campus networks through a practical and hands-on approach as they operate a TCP/IP network with inter-campus and international connectivity.
...KENET was granted the Building Opportunities/Leveraging Technologies (BOLT) award, a substantial $200,000 donation from the Internet Society Foundation.Aligned with the Internet Society Foundation's overarching vision that "The Internet is for everyone," the BOLT Program focuses on propelling internet development, enhancing global internet access and connectivity, and fostering responsible innovation.
KENET has developed a custom web conferencing and collaboration platform designed to meet the specific needs of educational and research institutions in Kenya. Initially set up in 2016 to support remote teaching pilots for the University of Nairobi, Daystar University and Catholic University of Eastern Africa, the platform became crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting the emergency transition to remote teaching for university...
KENET has as one of its mandates, the role of catalyzing collaboration in research and education among member universities and research institutions. KENET promotes collaboration through facilitation of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in priority academic areas, discovery of active researchers/faculty, provision of research and innovation grants to researchers and member institutions, as well as travel grants for faculty and/or graduate students in SIG areas.
This Call for Proposals for the Educational Technologies (EdTech) Innovation Grants is intended to support faculty to explore innovative ways of leveraging Generat...
Eight (8) researchers from public and private universities namely University of Nairobi, Maseno University, The Cooperative University of Kenya, Machakos University and African Nazarene University benefitted from the KENET travel grants to attend the Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa Conference. The DETA Conference is an Africa-specific biennial conference initiated by the University of Pretoria in South Africa in 2005 and was borne out of the necessity to create a unique platform for all faculties of education to share knowledge and deliberate on educational issues as they affect Africa....