🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

7️⃣ Key Impacts from 9️⃣ Years of Advancing #OpenScience in #Africa 🌍 With our partners and collaborators, we built vibrant communities, shaped policies, enhanced infrastructure access, and more. Read the full story here 👉 libsense.ren.africa/en/libsense-im… Information School AfricaConnect3 👏

At the closing conference of the Africa Digital Campus pilot project in #Cotonou 🇧🇯 our Board Chair and interim CEO, Dr Eyouleki Palanga highlighted WACREN's contribution to the project's success. Our engineer also joined a panel to discuss how digital infrastructure was

#EkoKonnect2025 Users Conference is 5⃣0⃣ days away! 🗓️ Now is the time to plan your trip and secure accommodation near the conference venue. 📍 Find a list of recommended options here: indico.wacren.net/event/221/page… Haven’t registered? 👉 bit.ly/4eiMgcH

Hello Diamond OA advocates, We are pleased to announce the launch of the #DiamondOpenAccess Publishing in Africa Community of Practice (CoP) this December. If your African organisation publishes ‘no-fee’ OA journals or books, we invite you to Join this CoP to: ✅ connect with

Register now and enjoy a discounted conference fee. Deadline - Jan. 3⃣1⃣ More payment options available soon. Read more in the newly released eNGAGE newsletter - wacren.net/en/wacren-conf…. Other articles here - wacren.net/en/media-centr… #WACREN2025 🇸🇳

🚀 Inspired by our OA book advocacy and supported by Open Book Collective, FUTMinna is modernising academic book publishing in #Nigeria. 👏🏾👏🏾 With #BookHub, it envisions scaling this #OpenAccess model nationwide! 🎯 Check them out! 👉🏾 apc-minna.bookhub.ng 📚✨

I look forward to moderating this session and bringing WACREN models to enhance #eduroam adoption in #Nigeria! Nigerian REN (NgREN) AfricaConnect3 #eduID

We sincerely appreciate our esteemed speakers, moderators, and workshop facilitators for making #EkoKonnect2025 a success! Your insights enriched discussions on advancing research and education in Nigeria. Special thanks to Datasphir for facilitating the #geteduroam workshop.

This week, we joined Crossref (inactive Jan 2025) Accra, where Kwaku Effah Amponsah shared our contributions to advancing #openscience through the LIBSENSE programme. We talked about our #repositories, PIDs service and publishing platform. #BAOBAB #PIDsLink #PublishNow. See more about our services on

We invite all partners, collaborators, friends and associates of WACREN across the world to join us on April 10, 2025, for a special tribute session in honour of Dr Boubakar Barry 🇸🇳 - a pioneer of research and education networks in #Africa. #restwellboubakar #WACREN2025

African RENs have a vital role to play in #climate #research. Even though RENs are well positioned to support the climate agenda, a lack of matching investment in technology and human capital prevents them from contributing significantly. This session on climate will delve into

As we move into the next phase of AfricaConnect, we're strengthening our NRENs through shared experiences and mutual needs. In this workshop, we’ll engage with the updated maturity matrix, co-create services like hashtag#elearning and hashtag#openscience platforms, and build

Happening now at @FUTMinna: The "Revolutionising Academic Publishing in Nigeria" workshop, spotlighting #OpenAccess book publishing and featuring our infrastructure powering the BookHub project. Follow for updates! #AcademicPublishing #BookHub LIBSENSE TETFund Coko

🥳Kudos to the 5 new African members that have joined #eduGAIN! ➡️eduID.tg (Togo), eduID.bf (Burkina Faso), MAREN IF (Malawi), GARNET IF (Ghana), & TERNET IF (Tanzania) 👏This expansion will enhance the research&education collaboration across Africa.

In the #cybersecurity session at #WACREN2025, panel members shared rich perspectives and agreed on the nexus and cooperation needed between nCSIRTs, NREN #CSIRTs, academic institutions and policymakers and every player in-between. #TrustBrokerAfrica is well positioned to enable

Watch a highlight of #WACREN, UbuntuNet Alliance, ASREN, and GÉANT (@[email protected]) paying a glowing final tribute to Dr. Boubakar Barry's 🇸🇳🇸🇳life and legacy. Watch full video here - video.wacren.net/media/HOMMAGE+… #WACREN2025 AfricaConnect3

Help take PublicHealth.Africa to the next level! Join our Working Group to shape its future—strategy, structure, sustainability & impact. 🗓 Deadline: May 20, 2025. Submit your EoI 👉 bit.ly/EoIforPHA WACREN peoplespraxis AFREhealth Official #publichealth #coppha

Proud to see our early career leaders take ownership of the open science agenda. LIBSENSE was always about community-first infrastructure, and they are now shaping policy, practice, and platforms. The future of African research is being built from within. 🚀 WACREN

Great to see the momentum from the FUTMINNA Open Access Workshop! 🚀 We're excited to see continued support for open access through initiatives like these. Looking forward to the workshop outcomes in #Lagos! 👏 #OABooks #ScholarlyPublishing

WACREN is pleased to announce an open call for piloting #RUMBU - a shared, community-governed #repository platform for Nigerian 🇳🇬 institutions. ‘RUMBU’ aims to bridge the infrastructure gap in Nigeria's research landscape, to foster collaboration, enhance hashtag#research