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KENET successfully held an in-person forum for 2022 cohort of grantees on July 29, 2022 in Nairobi. The main purpose of forum was to for the research team to meet with KENET research services team, that includes the part-time research associate and learn about the KENET research computing platform The forum was also an opportunity for the different teams drawn from different university or research institutes in order to promote research collaboration. The grantees also received feedback from their proposal reviewers.
The forum was attended by a total of 38 participants, consisting of the following:
The Computational Modelling and Materials Science (CMMS) is one of the Special Interest Group supported by KENET to enhance research capacity development in the use of computational modelling in science and technology. Research grants support the research projects of early career PhD faculty and researchers in computational biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, environmental and engineering sciences. In order to increase the research output from research groups with standard experimental infrastructure, CMMS has embraced computational modeling which is now considered an important decision support tool. In this regard, CM...
One of the mandates of KENET is to promote research collaboration. KENET subscribed to Elsevier Scival research analytic tool in January 2016 to measure the degree of collaboration among KENET members. The collaboration is measured in terms of joint publications indexed in Scopus database and is often used for global universities and research rankings.
The Computer Science and Information Systems (CS/IS) Research and Innovation Grants is intended to promote early-stage CS/IS research and development in current and emerging research areas, as well as strengthen the CS/IS SIG. The Research and Innovation grants target early-stage research, enabling researchers to undertake proof-of-concept work to support R&D ideas and concepts. It is envisioned that the Research and Innovation grants, which are ideally targeted at junior faculty, will position recipient researchers in good footing to further their research and expertise in these areas, and subsequently attract more resea...
The KENET 2022 cohort of eight graduate trainees started their training on January 5, 2022. These graduate trainees will enhance our staff pipeline and increase our capacity to deliver new digital services in the following key areas.
1. Applications Development. This is the area of highest demand in ICT staffing, especially with increased blended and online learning and for developing new cloud-based research services. The application development team is responsible for continually enhancing the KENET remote teaching platform, development of new cloud-based software appliances to support the researche...