EVENT: Building a Research and Education Infrastructure in Africa

 CHAIR:  F F Tusubira, UbuntuNet Alliance
i.      General Perspectives and WACREN – Bobakar Barry, AAU (15 minutes)
ii.      UbuntuNet Alliance  - Duncan Martin (15 minutes)
iii.    RED CLARA – María José López (15 minutes)
iv.    InnovaRed, Argentina – Annibal Gattone (15 minutes)

Discussion – 30 minutes

  CHAIR:  Bjorn Pehrson

i.        ERINA – Simon Taylor (10 minutes)
ii.      ERINA4Africa – Margaret Ngwira (10 minutes)
iii.    Grid Computing in Africa – Bruce Becker, SAGrid (15 minutes)
iv.    Practical case study in Uganda: ICT (distributed computing & networking) used in the Agricultural Sector – Nodumo Dhlamini (15minutes)
v.      Examples from CLARA  - Annibal Gattone (15 minutes)

Discussion – 25 minutes

Co-Chairs: Leonardo Flores (EC, GEANT & e-Infrastructures) & Ahmed Hamdy (AUC, HRST)

Speakers / Panelists

i. EC, GEANT & e-Infrastructures: Kostas Glinos - European Commission Perspectives (10’)
ii. AUC, HRST: Vera Brenda Ngosi - African Union Commission Perspectives (10’)
iii. DANTE: Cathrin Stover - The AfricaConnect Implementation Plan (15’)
iv. KTH: Bjorn Pehrson - FEAST Identification of Remaining Gaps (15’)
v. AAU: Boubakar Barry - The Role of African RRENs and NRENs (15’)
vi. Sigma Orionis: Karine Valin - The eI-Africa Project (5’)

Discussions (20’)

CO-CHAIRs: Kostas/Leonardo EC-DG-INFSO and Vera Brenda, AUC

Panel members: 
i. Boubakar Barry (AAU)
ii. Tusu (UbuntuNet Alliance)
iii. Cathrin Stover (DANTE)
iv. María José López (CLARA)
v. Bjorn Pehrson (KTH)