Engineering and Innovation are important pillars in the development of any society. For Kenya to industrialise and improve the wellbeing of her people, increasing investment in research and development within Engineering is a must. This call seeks to fund research in engineering with great potential for impact in Kenya.
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 modeling in science and technology.
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.
KENET has developed online courses to equip the KENET Community with relevant skills. These are online self-paced courses currently being offered by KENET at NO COST to its members. All the participants will require to undertake the courses are a laptop and Internet connection and a commitment to complete the course.
The courses are as follows:
KENET has developed online courses to equip the KENET Community with relevant skills. These are online self-paced courses currently being offered by KENET at NO COST to its members. All the participants will require to undertake the courses are a laptop and Internet connection and a commitment to complete the course.
The courses are as follows:
Both online and blended teaching require creative and flexible thinking about how instructors can support students in achieving essential core course learning objectives. Instructors may choose to engage their students synchronously or asynchronously depending on the course content or material that needs to be taught.
To have an interactive online course, instructors may apply these basic principles:
KENET successfully held a training on Scalable Campus Network from February 24-28th, 2020. The training was conducted at the KENET training room located at University of Nairobi and had a total of 24 participants from 21 KENET member Institutions. The training was primarily aimed at equipping network/system administrators and ICT infrastructure managers from KENET member TVETs and Teaching Hospitals with the necessary skills to administer a campus network effectively
The participants strengthened their knowledge and skills in the areas of VLAN implementation, scalable designs of their networks, optimizing network functionality, network visibility using open-source tools for monitoring and management. The participants also gained knowledge on the importance of securing their networks and effectively sensitizing their end users on guarding and mitigating against attacks.
Group Photo of the Partcipants
KENET has awarded a total of $ 60,000 Computer Science, Information Systems and Engineering Multi-Disciplinary Mini-Grant to four (4) research projects. After a rigorous selection process that lasted three (3) months, four top picks were selected in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT) in Agriculture and Health. The call was announced in August 8, 2019 and attracted 26 applicants from 18 Kenyan Universities and University Colleges.
The grant awarded to the four (4) lead researchers also extends to 15 other researchers who served as team members to the projects. At a cost of $15,000 for each winner, the grant will last a year starting February 1, 2020 to January 30, 2021. The researchers awarded are from six (6) universities, three (3) government institutions and one (1) research institute.
