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Over Fifteen Institutions Benefit from Direct Engineering Support Services

Posted on: 18 December 2018
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In 2018, over 15 KENET-member Institutions have benefited from Direct Engineering Support (DES) initiatives. KENET DES’s are usually aimed at improving network performance and security, as well as enhance the institution’s staff implementation of transformational changes to ICT resources and Infrastructure. Some of the activities usually carried out during the DES include; backbone network infrastructure survey, Bandwidth Monitoring and Optimization, installation of Wi-Fi Access points to increase wireless coverage and offering recommendations on best practices regarding the network.

KENET Partners with SomaliREN for the SomNOG Conference

Posted on: 18 December 2018
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KENET is keen on is collaborating with upcoming and established regional and international National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). KENET partnered with the Somali Research and Education Network (SomaliREN) in support of its annual Somali Network Operators’ Group (SomNOG) Conference and workshops held on October 15-21, 2018. KENET made its networking lab accessible to the workshop participants who used it for hands-on lab practice on Routing and Switching.

Blockchain Developers Training for Faculty Held at KENET

Under its skills academy program, IBM conducted a one-week Blockchain Developer training for faculty members across Kenya. The training was held between 15-19 October 2018 at the KENET training room. The main objective of the training was to enable faculty to provide students with foundation skills required to develop blockchain applications and get them ready for the job market. The course covered basic concepts required to understand blockchain technology and included hands-on exercises which were conducted on the IBM Cloud Lab hosted at the KENET data center.

KENET Sets Up New Data Centre

KENET has been offering data centre and community cloud services since 2011 when its two data centres at the University of Nairobi (UoN) and United States International University- Africa (USIU- Africa) were commissioned. The data centre services include Server(s)/Rack colocation in the data centres for hosting of institutional systems, web applications, and disaster recovery sites among others.

Q&A- Use of KENET Virtual Lab Fosters Kenya-Australia Research Collaboration

The KENET Virtual Lab is a research cloud computing platform where researchers can spin up pre-configured virtual appliances on demand, as well as store and share data. Prof. Elijah Ateka, an Associate Professor of Plant Virology in the Department of Horticulture at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) collaborates with Dr. Laura Boykin from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in a gene sequencing project.

Why we should embrace Open Educational Resources (OER)

Posted on: 23 October 2018
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Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are open to the public. This implies that these materials can be legally accessed, copied, used and re-shared by anyone. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation. OER can therefore be termed as a global movement in education spanning many countries and initiatives to ensure that education is a right and not a privilege.

KENET Hosts Open Science Workshop

The Open Science Workshop hosted at KENET successfully concluded on August 10, 2018. The two-day workshop organized by the Bioinformatics Network led by Dr.

Half-day ICIPE researchers Forum Shed Light on KENET Research Services

The KENET research services team had an opportunity to meet with researchers from International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) to better understand their research infrastructure needs and create awareness of some of KENET research services.

Advances in Research and Computing Services at KENET

The pool of researchers in Kenya is increasing both in digit and diversity. Although the largest research output in the country between 2016- 2017 was in the field of medicine, research in other fields is on the rise such as econometrics, bioinformatics, computational biology/chemistry, engineering, physics and data science. Big Data (extreme large data sets) calls for more computing power for data analysis and storage.

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