[Community] Updates on NgREN consolidation and expansion

[Boubakar Barry]

Dear Muhammad and NgREN colleagues,

Congratulations for the progress made and bon courage for the next steps.

Best,
Boubakar


On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:42 PM, MT Usman <mtusman at ngren.edu.ng> wrote:

> Dear All, this is to share with you updates on NgREN activities.
>
> Following the successful commissioning of the NgREN on the 8th of July,
> the Team here completed the development of documents to guide the network's
> operations as a full-fledged corporate entity limited by guarantee. These
> were approved  by the NgREN Board at its second meeting held on the 26th of
> August 2014 (http://ngren.edu.ng/news/ngren-board-holds-second-meeting)
> and arrangements are in full throttle to implement these decisions in due
> course. It is also pertinent to inform you that the Association of Vice
> Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU) has endorsed the network's
> membership and service subscription fee regime and many universities have
> either paid their fees or have written to authorise the Tertiary Education
> Trust Fund (TETFund) to pay the NgREN on their behalf.
>
> We are also pleased to inform you that the President of the Federal
> Republic of Nigeria has been briefed on the NgREN implementation at a
> meeting in his office on 8th of September 2014 (
> http://ngren.edu.ng/news/president-jonathan-commends-ngren-assures-on-expansion-of-network).
> He was excited at the progress made so far and as a result of the
> administration's renewed commitment, efforts have commenced to expand the
> network to connect all public (federal and state) universities in the first
> instance, and subsequently, all public polytechnics, colleges of education
> and research institutes. The goal is to interconnect and provide them with
> IT services in aid of their teaching, research and community service
> mandates. Thus, all the higher education institutions and research
> institutes in Nigeria will soon become physically connected to the NgREN.
>
> You will recall that as a complementary intervention, the Federal Ministry
> of Communications Technology through the Universal Service Provision Fund
> (USPF) of the Nigerian Communications Commission is linking all teaching
> hospitals with their corresponding medical colleges and host university
> main campuses by fibre. The contracts have since been awarded by the USPF
> and work is ongoing.
>
> Meetings of the NgREN Technical Working Groups (constituted in the course
> of the cluster Operational Readiness Workshops held in April and May this
> year) are being planned to hold soon to discuss and fine-tune plans
> especially with respect to the roll-out of services on the network.
>
> Please follow us on Twitter *@NigerianREN* and like our Facebook page, *Nigerian
> Research and Education Network* for regular information on ongoing
> activities.
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> M. T. Usman
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> Peter Okebukola Building,
> National Universities Commission,
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