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:-
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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.
The higher education and research community (students, faculty, researchers and staff) take Cloud Services for granted. 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-mail is stored somewhere in the Internet or in the cloud. Download Article Here
KENET successfully conducted the Advance Scalable Campus Network training from April 4-8th 2016. The training was conducted at the KENET training room located at University of Nairobi. The training had a total of 25 participants from 22 KENET member Institutions. This was an advanced training and the participants were required to have at least 3 years working experience on campus.
