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Boubakar Barry, CEO of WACREN, and David Lambert, President and CEO of Internet2, signed a MoU during the Internet2 Global Summit 2015 recently held in Washington DC.

The main purpose of the MoU is to develop a framework for exploring opportunities to support the Parties’ mutual interests.

Specifically, Internet2 and WACREN will actively develop opportunities to collaborate with each other in the following areas:

– Global Network Architecture (GNA) infrastructure;
– Service Offerings;
– Human Capital Development;
– Coordination on planning and governance;
– Coordination on Communications.

Representatives of the Internet2 Community were present at the signing ceremony, which was followed by a discussion on opportunities to start concrete actions in the framework of the MoU.

More on Internet2 can be found at www.internet2.edu.