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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.
KENET sucessfully 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 menber Institutions. This was an advanced training and the participants were required to have atleast 3 years working experience on campus.
The Internet Society (ISOC) has developed an online introductory course on network operations. So far over 75 participants have successfully completed the online course. The Introduction to network operations course is a prerequisite to attend the KENET trainings. Kindly refer to the 2016 training calendar to see the available courses.
The KENET 2016 training calendar is out. This year, KENET plans to hold two (2) residential courses for the purpose of strengthening our member institutions technical capacity in both academic and research areas. The calendar and full details of the planned courses can be downloaded from the KENET website or by clicking on the link (http://training.kenet.or.ke/index.php?title=Main_Page).
KENET participated in the UbuntuNetConnect 2015: BGP Workshop that was held in Maputo, Mozambique from November 15-18,2015.The workshop focused on imparting skills on the configuration and operation of National Research and Education Networks. This was an advanced course and all participants were expected to have experience and knowledge in routing. The workshop was organised by NSRC www.nsrc.org and Africa Connect who are KENET partners.
KENET has been able to establish partnerships that have ensured effective and successful running of trainings for members
1. Network Startup Resource Center, NSRC (http://nsrc.org/):has been one of the long standing KENET partners who have donated equipment valued at over $100,000 to setup a training lab that includes network switches, routers and a virtualization server. NSRC also donates some of its highly trained and experienced trainers to come assist with running some of the training programmes.
On Monday 16th March, 2015, ICT Cabinet Secretary (CS) Dr Fred Matiang’i launched a DeHUB innovation lab at Dedan Kimathi University (DeKUT) in Nyeri and the university’s strategic plan. The DeHUB will enable the students of DeKUT to not only have the creative space to innovate but also dedicated bandwidth to enable the students to create and test their innovations.
