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AFRICAN NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKS THE RWANDA CASE:. Bayingana Moses RWANDA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITY. OUTLINE. Background Some of ICTs in Education Objectives Current Status Challenges & Constraints Activities Anticipated to Compliment RARN(REDNET)
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AFRICAN NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKS THE RWANDA CASE: Bayingana Moses RWANDA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITY M. Bayingana
OUTLINE • Background • Some of ICTs in Education Objectives • Current Status • Challenges & Constraints • Activities Anticipated to Compliment RARN(REDNET) • Expectations from the Workshop M. Bayingana
BACKGROUND The National Information Communication and Infrastructure Policy and Plan(2001-05) envisaged the Rwanda Academic and Research Network – Linking all Institutions of Higher Education into a Wide Area Network with an International Gateway M. Bayingana
SOME OF ICTs in Education OBJECTIVES • To promote R&D work in the Universities and Colleges. • To facilitate promotion of academic and research collaboration and twining arrangements with International Centers of Excellence. • To improve and upgrade the ICT resources and Infrastructure of Higher Educational Institutions M. Bayingana
CURRENT STATUS • KIST & NUR have Campus Fibre Networks and both use Campus Vsats for their International Gateway. KIE is implementing Electronic Distance Education and Learning in the Country. • They are yet to be linked into a Wide Area Network • National Fibre Network is 100km from Kigali (KIST Location) and 50 km short to reach Butare (NUR Location) M. Bayingana
CHALLENGES & CONSTRAINTS • Costly Infrastructure • Technical Capacity • Organization Issues • Financial Resources M. Bayingana
Activities Anticipated to Compliment RARN(REDNET) • National Fibre Network • Operationalization of the EASSy Project in 2007 • It’s anticipated that Universities will subscribe for bandwidth capacity from EASSy through RITA/RINEX • ICT Capacity Building M. Bayingana
Expectations from the Workshop • To Learn on benefits experienced by existing NRENs • To Discuss on Challenges facing emerging or existing NRENs • Proposition of Way Forward for NRENs in Africa M. Bayingana
THANK YOU M. Bayingana