The National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Committee of Vice Chancellors (CVC) of Nigerian Universities have established a foundation that will enhance learning and research in tertiary institutions in the Nigeria.
This was made known at the commissioning of the Nigerian Research and Education Network, (NgREN) which took place yesterday at the NUC office in Abuja.
The Executive Secretary of the NUC, and chairman of NgREN board, Mr Julius Okojie, said the foundation aims to create a sophisticated infrastructural backbone to link all research and education institutions in Nigeria and connect them with other education and research networks around the world.
“The project will provide network services and applications such as identify federation, e-content, hosting, network security, bandwidth management, IP telephony, video-conferencing, among others to the research,” he said.
He said the foundation will provide cheaper bandwidth for member institutions and also establish a framework which will enable the sharing of resources.
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