[Community] Updates on NgREN consolidation and expansion

[Ebi Bio. awotua-efebo]

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Ebi

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On Oct 3, 2014, at 9:03 PM, "Venant Palanga" <vpalanga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Usman and NgREN community,
> 
> This is a feat. Congratulations to NgREN team and good luck for the future.
> 
> Venant
> 
> 2014-10-02 14:42 GMT+00:00 MT Usman <mtusman at ngren.edu.ng>:
>> 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
>> Nigerian Research and Education Network,
>> Peter Okebukola Building,
>> National Universities Commission,
>> 26, Aguiyi Ironsi Street,
>> Maitama, Abuja.
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> Venant Eyouléki Palanga
> Directeur Adjoint 
> Centre Informatique et de Calcul
> Université de Lomé
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