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Working together to scale up in Uganda

For Uganda's RENU, eduroam was the game changer. This NREN has big plans for it. In Uganda, you encounter the future everywhere. Because no country in the world has a younger population: as many as half of its 50 million inhabitants are under 16. And its surface area is six times the Netherlands. So providing Ugandan educational institutions with Internet is quite a job for RENU.

Strategic collaboration in Singapore

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Singapore, beating heart of Asia's networking infrastructure. Numerous national research and education networks (NRENs) and companies in Asia and far beyond have linked their networks through the SingAREN Open Exchange. How did this 'Global eXchange Point' or GXP become so successful? We asked Francis Lee, founding president of SingAREN.
Lodewijk Asscher: "Keep pulling together"

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How do you board members of an ambitious and complex accelerator programme? Chairman of the steering committee of the National Growth Fund programme Npuls Lodewijk Asscher has strong ideas about this: "Let's not deny the differences in interests. The way forward lies in content and in the conversation we have about it."
Digital Competence Centres let institutions collaborate more intensively

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Digitising research requires expertise, and that is scarce. Digital Competence Centres (DCCs) pool that expertise. Moreover, they make it easier for institutions to share knowledge and develop services together. Indeed, needs in this area appear to be widely shared.
The route in digital transformation: open standards

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Open standards are an important prerequisite for successful digitisation. We talk to three experts about adoption, trends and the urgent need for standards. "We want to ski from many different mountains, but don't have a common ski binding yet."
EuroTeQ aims to set a European standard

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EuroTeQ should become a 'European university', with a transparent offer of international education. Two stakeholders from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) talk about their ambitions, and the obstacles they intend to overcome with SURF's help.
Cybersecurity Innovation Zone: cooperation and exchange are crucial

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Since 2022, SURF has been working with its members on innovation in 9 innovation zones. One of these is the Cybersecurity Innovation Zone, which aims to increase the cyber resilience of education and research institutions. A conversation with Paula Duijnhoven (University of applied sciences) and Albert Hankel (SURF): "the question is not whether we will be hacked, but when".
"Accelerating through technology is the only way forward"

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"Our planet has about 20 million species of organisms. Of these, we have named about two million over the past 400 years. This means we do not yet know ninety per cent of all species. And what you don't know, you can't protect. That's why technology is so important." In conversation with Naturalis director Edwin van Huis.
Working together during war in Ukraine

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Every NREN has its challenges, but war is of a different order. Ukraine's URAN is therefore going through difficult times. But in doing so, it does show the strength of the network - in several senses.