KEFRI extended an invitation to KENET Executive Director to be a guest presenter at a meeting on the eve of their 5th Scientific Conference. The meeting was held on the 16th of April 2018 at the KEFRI headquarters in Muguga.
On April 16 2018, over 150 researchers convened at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)-Nairobi for a half-day forum to discuss how research can be progressed using ICT. The event, organized by KALRO and KENET sought to engage researchers in bid to promote research using Information Technologies. KENET has long worked with researchers as one of its mandates is to enhance research using ICTs. Research in the country has been enhanced by the array of research services and infrastructures provided by KENET.
Almost a year into the KENET Remote teaching project, learning has been recorded to have been efficient at Daystar Universities- with the Main Campus located in Athi River and the satellite Campus in Valley Road, Nairobi. From saving a student a 40 km journey to increasing reach and diversity of learning, the KENET Remote Teaching Project which was launched in 2017 entails use of web conferencing technology in education.
The Network expansion phase at the University of Kabianga has connected most of the Campus to fast and reliable Internet. The KENET team visited the University on 12 and 13 February 2018 to conduct a power on test (POST) on an ongoing project of the development of the Campus Backbone Network Infrastructure – Phase II and assessed that most of the active equipment for connection have been delivered and the project is almost complete.
The highly anticipated Koitalel Samoei University College is finally taking form after its launch kicked off in June 2017. Located in Nandi County, Mosop Subcounty, the new Campus is a Constituent College of University of Nairobi, and shall become the first public University in Nandi County.
Kenya Education Network (KENET) is a Trust incorporated under the Trustees (Perpetual Succession) Act Cap 164. It has 11 Trustees with the Executive Director as the Secretary to the Board of Trustees (BoT).
In the year 2017, seven (7) new members were admitted by the Board Trustees. The number of connected members increased from 115 to 122 in 2017.
To meet the Internet bandwidth demands of member institutions, KENET expanded the last mile infrastructure, national backbone network, and international circuits. The following is a summary of the expansion:
The KENET web conference system is an online service for organizing collaborative activities such as webinars, classes, webcasts and meetings. KENET launched the remote teaching pilot project in 2017. The remote teaching project was aimed at exploring the possibility of using the KENET web conferencing for remote teaching to reduce the cost of teaching multiple classes. Three universities namely Daystar University, Catholic University of East Africa and the University of Nairobi are participating in the project.
