[Community] Updates on NgREN consolidation and expansion

[Ousmane MOUSSA TESSA]

Dear colleagues of NgREN,

Félicitations pour ces réels progrès!

Ousmane
CEO Niger-REN


Le 02-10-2014 15:42, MT Usman a écrit :
> 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 [1]) 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
> [2]). 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 _ at NIGERIANREN_ and like our Facebook page,
> NIGERIAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORK for regular information on
> ongoing activities.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> --
> 
> M. T. Usman
> Nigerian Research and Education Network,
> Peter Okebukola Building,
> National Universities Commission,
> 26, Aguiyi Ironsi Street,
> Maitama, Abuja.
> Tel (Office): +234 9 460 2962
> Tel (Mobile):+234 816 384 6135
> Skype: usmanmt
> 
> Links:
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> [1] http://ngren.edu.ng/news/ngren-board-holds-second-meeting
> [2]
> http://ngren.edu.ng/news/president-jonathan-commends-ngren-assures-on-expansion-of-network
> 
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