[IRTalk] eduroam now available in CoCT libaries

[Meoli Kashorda]

Dear Ina,

 

This is a big achievement and we congratulate the TENET team that led this initiative. City of Cape Town has 57 public libraries? Amazing. 

 

Let us now imagine eduroam at all African main airports? It would solve the problem of insecure FREE WiFi at airports and use of VPNs. 

 

Meoli 

 

From: <african-open-science-platform at googlegroups.com> on behalf of Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za>
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 10:12 PM
To: "african-open-science-platform at googlegroups.com" <african-open-science-platform at googlegroups.com>, "irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za" <irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za>
Subject: eduroam now available in CoCT libaries

 

Forwarded on behalf of TENET, South Africa

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We're pleased to be able to announce that eduroam is now available in 57 of the City of Cape Town's public libraries. This is the culmination of about two years of negotiation and work involving TENET, CHEC, the four Western Cape universities, and of course the City of Cape Town. While this might not be significant achievement in Europe, it is in South Africa: as far as we are aware it is the first instance of eduroam hosted on city-wide and city-owned infrastructure in Africa.

Our press release about this was sent to local media this morning, and is available at https://www.tenet.ac.za/news/eduroam-coct-libraries-jul-2019

Publicity of this is important if we want to be able to use the CoCT success to persuade other cities to follow suit. For this reason we'd appreciate if if you could help raise awareness by getting your institutional Twitter accounts to retweet https://twitter.com/tenetnews/status/1148555285780414466. 

- Guy

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