[Community] Fwd: Press Release: Dr Pascal Hoba appointed as CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance

[Omo Oaiya]

Colleagues,

FYI. Please join me in congratulating Pascal as he takes on his new role.

Omo
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Date: 5 Mar 2015 14:38
Subject: Press Release: Dr Pascal Hoba appointed as CEO of UbuntuNet
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> *[image: NUANCE banner] **FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKING**PRESS
> RELEASE: UBUNTUNET ALLIANCE APPOINTS DR HOBA AS CEO*
>
> 5th March 2015, Lilongwe, Malawi: UbuntuNet Alliance, the Regional
> Research and Education Networking organisation for Eastern and Southern
> Africa, today announces the appointment of Dr Pascal Hoba as Chief
> Executive Officer (CEO) of the Alliance with effect from 1st January 2015.
> Dr Hoba succeeds Eng. Dr Francis (Tusu) Tusubira who retired on 28 February
> 2015 after successfully leading the Alliance since 2007.Dr Hoba is coming
> from the Association of African Universities (AAU) in Accra, Ghana where he
> has been Director of Knowledge Management Information and Communications
> since 2005. In his role at the AAU, Dr Hoba was also Coordinator of the
> Europe-Africa quality Connect project and the Database of African Theses
> and Dissertations. He is credited for initiating the Open Access process
> with the DATAD programme as a regional repository center.
>
> "Becoming CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance presents a privilege to serve the NREN
> community which I personally contributed to as first Project Coordinator at
> the AAU in charge of the RENU (Research Education Networking Unit)." Under
> this responsibility I organised for  AAU, the parallel event at The World
> Summit on the Information Society summit (WSIS) in November 2005 which
> officially launched UbuntuNet Alliance," says Dr Hoba...
>
> Read more <http://www.ubuntunet.net/dr-hoba-new-ceo>
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