KENET is pleased that two of the three universities participating in the remote teaching project have already started teaching using the equipment provided. Web conference equipment was installed at all the sites including Daystar Athi river, Daystar town, CUEA langata, CUEA gaba, University of Nairobi main, University of Nairobi Mombasa and University of Nairobi Kisumu campuses.
KENET has setup remote teaching classrooms at each of the campuses of the participating Universities using the KENET web conferencing system. The KENET Web Conference system is an online service for organizing collaborative activities such as webinars, webcasts and meetings. The system can also be extended to teaching through the setup of appropriate audio visual infrastructure.
All the proposal written to the vice chancellors of the three participating universities namely university of Nairobi, Daystar university and Catholic University of East Africa were accepted. The following are the agreed project activities:-
The higher education and research community (i.e., students, faculty, researchers and staff) takes Cloud Services for granted. In fact, most members of the community have a Google mail or Yahoo e-mail address (vc@gmail.com or steve@yahoo.com) and are vaguely aware that their e-mails are stored somewhere in the Internet or in the cloud.
KENET operates three data centers that host the network equipment used for providing broadband connectivity to the KENET member institutions. The data centres also provide community cloud services (dubbed enterprise services) to the KENET community. These services include co-location services, storage as a service and hosting services on dedicated virtual private servers.
KENET offers a range of shared services to its member institutions whose cost is bunndled with connectivity. This means that the members are not charged any additional fee for therse services. They include:-
Web Hosting
KENET held the first research infrastructures forum on May 18, 2016 at Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi. The forum was meant to create awareness on the advanced global e-infrastructures available to Kenyan Researchers whose institutions are connected to KENET broadband network.
In the past one year, the SIG on CMMS led by Prof George Amolo of Technical University of Kenya (He is a Physics professor, formerly of University of Eldoret) has been very active. The research IT services team, led by Dr. Moses Thiga at KENET has supported the SIG in many ways.
Most vulnerabilities that happen and/or reported are either due to lack of security awareness by end users (i.e., students, faculty, staff) or systems administrators’ failure to update the software an institution is running? for example:-
Kenya has finally approved registration of what are called Second Level Domains. This means it will now be possible to register and use domain names like helb.ke rather than helb.co.ke (or in addition to). KENET shall also be adopting the domain kenet.ke rather than the longer kenet.or.ke or kenet.ac.ke.
