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Prof. Mbomba Nseu Bekeli, Ph.D.
Principal Project Director
General Director of CSB
Kinshasa University
Faculty of Sciences
B.P. 190 Kinshasa 11
D. R. of Congo
GSM: +243-8957 34 3 59
mbomba_b@yahoo.fr
Francisco (Paco) Bozzano‑Barnes
Director
TENURE & ECOLOGY
888 Main St Apt. 345,
New York, NY 10044, USA
+1 212 652 5697
francisco@tenureecology.com
www.tenureecology.com
Dear Mbomba:
(1) It was my great pleasure to have met with you again at PacoÕs house this
afternoon.
(2) As said, pls contact your people of the National Research and Education
Networks (NRENs) in DRC.
Following person may know them,
Margaret E Ngwira
UbuntuNet Alliance
P O Box 2550
LILONGWE, Malawi
Phone/Fax 265 1 754 535
mengwira@ubuntunet.net
www.ubuntunet.net
www.global-project.eu
www.erina4africa.eu
(3) As you see (ATTACHMENT I) below, they are start having broadband optical
fiber net in African continent.
As mentioned to you, I would like to have them to be connected to GLORIAD <http://www.gloriad.org/>,
also.
Along our Global Early Warning System (GEWS)
project <http://tinyurl.com/3y3gzup>,
we are also advocating to have Japan, Bangladesh, Spain and African countries
to join in GLORIAD.
(4) As you know, we are advocating to deploy ultra high speed optical fiber net
along the super highway which is to be constructed with the US$4 billion, which
was pledged by the Japanese government at the TICAD-IV in Yokohama in 2008 <http://www.mofa.go.jp/index.html>,
which you attended.
(5) This is to conduct Global Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)
of our GEWS Project;
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I
From: UbuntuNet Alliance <info@ubuntunet.net>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:19:35
+0200
To: <nuance@lists.ubuntunet.net>
Subject: Press Release:
AfricaConnect
Africa-Europe
research collaboration to be transformed by EC-funded research infrastructure
Boost
for African research as European Commission injects Û14.75M into regional
research and education connectivity
Gaborone, Botswana, and Cambridge, UK, 11 May 2011: DANTE, the international research network
operator, and the European CommissionÕs EuropeAid Cooperation Office today
announce the signature of a Û14.75M contract for support to a sub-Saharan
African intra-regional research networking infrastructure which is already
interconnected to the pan-European research network, GƒANT. Eighty percent of
the projectÕs funding will come from the European CommissionÕs EuropeAid
Co-operation Office, and the remainder will be contributed by the African
partners in the project.
The contract represents a significant injection of capital to develop research
networking infrastructure across sub-Saharan Africa and with Europe. The
initiative will dramatically accelerate the development of the Information
Society in Africa, providing advanced data communications infrastructure and
enabling African researchers to collaborate more easily in advanced
international research projects.
Within the framework of the Africa Caribbean Pacific Islands (ACP) programme,
the AfricaConnect project will establish a high-capacity Internet network for
research and education in Southern and Eastern Africa to provide the region
with a gateway to global research collaboration, the objective of which is to
overcome the current limitations of international research collaboration within
sub-Saharan Africa and towards Europe, and to foster research and education
collaboration and advancement within and between these regions.
The project will be strongly collaborative, so whilst DANTE will coordinate
AfricaConnect, they will be partnered by DANTEÕs regional counterpart
organisations in Africa – UbuntuNet Alliance covering Eastern and
Southern Africa, and WACREN covering Western and Central Africa – as well
as the Association of African Universities; existing National Research and
Education Networks (NRENs) in Africa (DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia);
and several European NRENs (Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal
and the UK). All will work to ensure that the project benefits all of
sub-Saharan Africa.
ÒWe are delighted to see this project underway,Ó said Cathrin Stšver, DANTEÕs
International Relations Manager. ÒDANTE has a strong history of supporting
regional connectivity including actions in South America and Asia, and we will
build on this experience to support African research and education networks as
together they transform the research environment in Africa. DANTE always puts
the emphasis on partnership in this kind of activity, and we are therefore
excited to be working with such a strong group of partners on a project of this
importance.Ó
Eng. Dr Francis Tusubira, CEO of the UbuntuNet Alliance agrees: ÒFor the Alliance,
this support is invaluable, since our challenges run from the macro-challenge
of establishing regional connectivity in a geographical area that could contain
the whole of Europe several times over, to the comparative micro-challenge of
ensuring that each NREN has the human capacity to set up and operate their
national network. Achievement of the impossible is our mantra, and we
appreciate the support of the European Commission in this respect - their
funding makes the achievement of the impossible a whole lot easier!Ó
DANTE will soon announce an international tender for the connectivity and
equipment required for the AfricaConnect project. The infrastructure is
expected to be operational by early 2012.
The AfricaConnect project is expected to last for four years, after which time
the African Project Partners of AfricaConnect will ensure the sustainability of
the intra-regional African research network and its direct connection to GƒANT.
About DANTE
DANTE is a non-profit organisation, coordinator of large-scale projects
co-funded by the European Commission, and working in partnership with European
National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) to plan, build and operate
advanced networks for research and education. Established in 1993, DANTE has been
fundamental to the success of pan-European research and education networking.
DANTE has built and operates GƒANT, which provides the data communications
infrastructure essential to the success of many research projects in Europe.
DANTE is involved in worldwide initiatives to interconnect countries in the
other regions to one another and to GƒANT. DANTE currently manages projects
focussed on the Mediterranean, Asia-Pacific and central Asia regions through
the EUMEDCONNECT, TEIN and CAREN projects respectively. For more information,
visit www.dante.net. <http://www.dante.net./>
About the UbuntuNet Alliance
UbuntuNet Alliance is, at both the conceptual and implementation levels, a
commitment and movement by member NRENs to unlocking AfricaÕs intellectual
potential by ensuring that African Researchers and Educators achieve equity
with the rest of the world in terms of ease and cost of access to the global
information Infrastructure as well as opportunities for research collaboration
. The UbuntuNet Alliance was established in 2005 and registered in 2006 as a
not-for-profit regional association of NRENs in Eastern and Southern Africa and
currently has 13 members.
In January 2009, UbuntuNet Alliance established a 1Gb/s IP interconnection with
the GEANT network in London. This connection has recently been upgraded as
fibre has become available, prices drop and demands from NRENs increase, The
upgrade includes a 10Gb/s IP connection to GEANT and a new 10-Gbps link for dedicated
point-to-point connectivity, making Sub-Saharan Africa the first world region
outside North America to gain dedicated circuit capacity with Europe.
Therefore, the AfricaConnect project builds on a proven relationship between
Europe and sub Sahara Africa.
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