WACREN Meeting

West and Central African Research Education Network (WACREN) Meeting 1st November 2009

Sunday 1 November, WACREN Meeting

08:00-09:00	Registration

09:00-09:15	Opening Session
	Chair: Boubakar Barry, AAU

	Welcome by Mumuni Dakubu, GARNET(speech)

09:15-12:00	Session 1: Report on NREN Establishment Processes in West and Central Africa
	Chair: Boubakar Barry, AAU

	Benin
	Burkina Faso
	Cameroon
	Côte d'Ivoire
	Ghana
	Mali
	Niger
	Nigeria
	Senegal
	Togo

10:30-11:00	Break

12:00-12:45	Session 2: Promoting Regional RENs in Africa
	Chair: Nnamdi Nwokike, WATRA

	Establishing a Regional REN: Opportunities and Challenges - Experiences from the UbuntuNet Alliance
	Francis Tusubira (slides)
	FEAST, the Feasibility Study for AfricaConnect
	Bjorn Pehrson (paper, slides)

12:45-14:00	Lunch

14:00-15:00	Session 3: Intercontinental and regional optical fibre infrastructure in West and Central Africa
	Chair: Nii Quaynor, AfNOG

	Robert D. Woog, Infinity
	Gbemisola Oyinsan, Phase 3
	Lea Hidega, France Telecom (slides)

15:00-16:00	Session 4: Formation of a Regional Research and Education Network in West and Central Africa. What Process?
	Facilitator: Boubakar Barry, AAU

16:00-16:15	Break

16:15-17:30	Session 4 (cont'd)

17:30	Closing

18:00-19:30	Joint WACREN Meeting/Open Access Conference 2009 Cocktail