[afren] NREN news from West Africa

[Boubakar Barry]

Hi Enzo,

The twinship between GARRnet and GARNET is an excellent idea! Mumuni et al.,
I would take it up.

Thanks
Boubakar

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Enzo Valente <enzo.valente at garr.it> wrote:

>  congratulations to everybody,
> for the continuous progress
> in establishing NRENs sin West Africa.
> In particular I congratulate with Boubakar
> and his collaborators for their constant work.
>
> I think also thay Italy could establish
> some kind of  twinship between
> the italian GARRnet and the ghanese GARNET!
> Regards and best wishes to you all,
> Enzo Valente
> director of GARR.
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Boubakar Barry <barry at aau.org>
> *To:* afren at afnog.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 05, 2008 1:40 PM
> *Subject:* [afren] NREN news from West Africa
>
>  Dear All,
>
> Some news from West Africa:
>
> Cote d'Ivoire:
> Representatives of Ivoirian higher education and research institutions met
> on 1 August 2008 in Abidjan for a one-day workshop on the establishment of a
> NREN in Cote d'Ivoire. The workshop was hosted by Institut National
> Polytechnique Felix Houphouet Boigny.
>
> At the end of the workshop, the participants (IT Directors) agreed to
> continue the discussion on a list to be set up and to work on a document to
> be submitted to their respective heads of institution for approval.
>
>
> Ghana:
> Two weeks before the Abidjan meeting, IT Directors of Ghanaian higher
> education and research institutions met for a one-day workshop on GARNET;
> the workshop was hosted by University of Ghana, Legon.
>
> A decision to form GARNET Forum was made, a platform for collaboration for
> all Ghanaian higher education and research institutions (with Nigeria ICT
> Forum as model). A group with representatives of public and private higher
> education institutions, research institutions and library associations was
> tasked to follow up and spearhead the process of making GARNET be a reality.
>
>  Two smaller technical groups were formed to work on architecture and
> costing, and on policy and administrative issues for the drafting of
> documents to be presented to the heads of institutions and the Ministry of
> Education.
>
> Regards
> B.
>
>
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