[afren] Fwd: Press Release: Dr Pascal Hoba appointed as CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance

[Omo Oaiya]

Colleagues,

FYI. Please join me in congratulating Pascal as he takes on his new role.

Omo
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Date: 5 Mar 2015 14:38
Subject: Press Release: Dr Pascal Hoba appointed as CEO of UbuntuNet
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*[image: NUANCE banner] **FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKING**PRESS
RELEASE: UBUNTUNET ALLIANCE APPOINTS DR HOBA AS CEO*

5th March 2015, Lilongwe, Malawi: UbuntuNet Alliance, the Regional Research
and Education Networking organisation for Eastern and Southern Africa,
today announces the appointment of Dr Pascal Hoba as Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of the Alliance with effect from 1st January 2015. Dr Hoba
succeeds Eng. Dr Francis (Tusu) Tusubira who retired on 28 February 2015
after successfully leading the Alliance since 2007.Dr Hoba is coming from
the Association of African Universities (AAU) in Accra, Ghana where he has
been Director of Knowledge Management Information and Communications since
2005. In his role at the AAU, Dr Hoba was also Coordinator of the
Europe-Africa quality Connect project and the Database of African Theses
and Dissertations. He is credited for initiating the Open Access process
with the DATAD programme as a regional repository center.

"Becoming CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance presents a privilege to serve the NREN
community which I personally contributed to as first Project Coordinator at
the AAU in charge of the RENU (Research Education Networking Unit)." Under
this responsibility I organised for  AAU, the parallel event at The World
Summit on the Information Society summit (WSIS) in November 2005 which
officially launched UbuntuNet Alliance," says Dr Hoba...

Read more <http://www.ubuntunet.net/dr-hoba-new-ceo>

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