Abstract

Higher education and research science is being conducted in an era of information abundance. Sharing educational resources (e.g. Libraries, Curriculums, Online courses) and science resources, such as data commons, instrumentation, technology, and best practices, across national borders, can promote expanded global education goals and scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance discovery. Providing robust diverse Research and Education Networks (RENs) linking the U.S., Brazil (S. America) and African researcher and education communities is an increasingly strategic priority. Africa has developed research and education communities with unique biological, environmental, geological, anthropological, and cultural resources. Research challenges in atmospheric and geosciences, materials sciences, tropical diseases, biology, astronomy, and other disciplines will benefit by enhancing the technological and social connections between the research and education communities of these three continents via a S. Atlantic route to complement the existing North Atlantic routes via Europe. This paper will discuss the availability of new submarine cable spectrum for RENs via SACS between Luanda, Angola and Fortaleza, Brazil and the Monet cable between Fortaleza and Florida in the U.S. for use by research and education communities. This new infrastructure creates an unprecedented opportunity for the stakeholders to coordinate planning efforts to strategically make use of the offered spectrum towards serving the broadest communities of interest in research and education. The new links will be a foundational layer for the employment …

Date

2018

Authors

Heidi Morgan, Julio Ibarra, Jeronimo Bezerra, Luis Fernandez Lopez, Vasilka Chergarova, Donald A Cox III, Gabriella E Alvarez, Michael Stanton, Aluizio Hazin, Len Lotz, Siju Mammen

Journal

UbuntuNet-Connect Conference 2018 Zanzibar, Tanzania