News & Events

The RENU Identity Federation (RIF) - the R&E trust & identity federation for Uganda, created and operated by the RENU, the Udanda NREN, has joined eduGAIN.  EduGAIN is the global inter-federation of trust and identity federation for the reserarch and education, allowing single-sign-on, trusted access to global research data and instruments, and simple, userfriendly access management for researchers and students across the worlds.

RIF is the 55th national federation to join eduGAIN, and the first in sub-Saharan Africa.

On November 24, the 12th General Assembly of the GÉANT Association elected new members.  The Terms of three members (Dorte Olesen, Raimundas Tuminauskas, and Marko Bonač) had expired.  In addition, Erik Huized had stepped down from the board to take on the role as interim CEO of the GÉANT Association.

The general assembly elected 

GÉANT is hosting a crisis management workshop for the European NRENs and the European R6E networking community - CLAW.  The workshop takes place in Malaga, Spain, on 20-21 November 2017. 

The workshop will feature training in crisis management for R&E networking staff, and help NRENs develop crisis management plans and strategies.  

To learn more and register, go to the CLAW meeting page.

Alberto Pérez Gómez has been appointed new director of the Spanish research and education network RedIRIS.