Information and communications

Computer scientist scoops best poster award at SSSW07 Dr Aurona Gerber of the Meraka Institute walked off with the best poster award at the fifth Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW07) held in Cercedilla, Madrid, Spain in July 2007.

Support for ICT curriculum development at FET colleges Public further education and training (FET) colleges are set to benefit from efforts by the Department of Communications (DoC) and the Meraka Institute.

Meraka Institute signs agreement with LinkNet of Zambia The signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between LinkNet Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society Limited of Zambia and the Meraka Institute on 17 August 2007 is another significant step towards the creation of low-cost, wireless connectivity in Africa.

Mesh networking work on patch for OLSR recognised The contribution by John Hay of the Meraka Institute to broadening the use of the optimised link state routing (OLSR) mesh networking protocol was officially acknowledged by the OLSR mesh protocol development team for the IPv6 patch (or fix) in version 5 of OLSR.

EuroAfrica-ICT workshop draws large contingent The fourth EuroAfrica-ICT Awareness Workshop was successfully held in Nairobi, Kenya during July 2007. The event was organised by the Meraka Institute of the CSIR (a EuroAfrica-ICT consortium partner).