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The Role of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in developing local content

The Role of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in developing local content. AfPIF-4 Casablanca, 5 September 2013. Boubakar Barry Association of African Universities barry@aau.org. AfREN. Forum on research and education networking in Africa

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The Role of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in developing local content

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  1. The Role of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in developing local content AfPIF-4 Casablanca, 5 September 2013 Boubakar Barry Association of African Universities barry@aau.org

  2. AfREN • Forum on research and education networking in Africa • Convened annually by AAU as part of the Africa Internet Summit (AIS) • First meeting hosted by AfNOG at AfNOG 2006 in Nairobi • Focus: • Collaboration • Sharing of best practices • Policy development • New and innovative applications and services • Vision: interconnection of the 3 regional RENs that cover the continent: UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN, ASREN

  3. ASREN, UA, WACREN • ASREN • 22 potential members in the Middle East and North Africa • Some countries have joined; ASREN reaching out to the others • UbuntuNet Alliance • 14 members • Many operational NRENs • Connected to GEANT • Implementation of AfricaConnect • WACREN • 22 potential members • 8 established NRENs • 3 NRENs close to operation: GARNET, NgREN, snRER

  4. ASREN proposed topology Internet Géant Internet2 Other NREN ASRENDANTE/ London Palestine PALEN Ankabut Morocco CNRS Algeria - ARN

  5. UA topology Internet • GÉANT AMS-IX LINX UbuntuNet, Amsterdam UbuntuNet, London KENET TERNET ZAMREN MoRENet TENET UbuntuNet, Mtunzini

  6. WACREN proposed topology

  7. RENs and content development • Universities and research centers are traditional content developers • Books • Lecture notes • Theses • Research reports • Publications • NRENs are to provide high performance networks for: • Access, creation and dissemination of knowledge • Sharing of resources • Collaboration • Important for RENs to include non-academic content providers such as museums, public/community libraries, etc.

  8. Examples of current initiatives • eI4Africa • Objective: to boost research, technological development and innovation of African e-Infrastructures • Africa Grid Science Gateway as demonstrative platform to show lighthouse applications (http://sgw.africa-grid.org) • CHAIN-REDS • Objective: support scientific collaboration across different e-Infrastructures to allow virtual research communities to access and use worldwide distributed resources (computing, storage, data, tools, applications, services, etc.) - http://www.chain-project.eu • DATAD • Objective: dissemination of African research output through a database of theses and dissertations. Over 100,000 entries – http://www.aau.org/datad

  9. THANK YOU! Email: barry@aau.org Website: http://www.aau.org

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