CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands Deploying Certification Authorities and Identity Federations in Africa Tiwonge Msulira Banda, UbuntuNet Alliance

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands Limited previous e-Infrastructures activities Scarce knowledge and/or experience in deploying/managing large e- Infrastructures. Isolated spots of research activities with high computing demands. Greenfield regions/countries e-Infrastructures already started/deployed Locally developed applications. Fair to good knowledge and experience in e-Infrastructures High quality research groups and institutions with world wide collaborations. Advanced regions/countries Most of Eastern and Southern Africa is an e-Infrastructure greenfield

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands Current UbuntuNet operations and backbone 3 POPs: Mtunzini, London, Amsterdam 2 Links from Mtunzini PoP to Europe All traffic exchanged in Europe ALSO One light-path currently operational Between HartRAO and Jive Transfer of e-VLBI data from the observatory in HartRAO to JIVE in real time 2 Gbps capacity

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands The AfricaConnect project AfricaConnect – Keeping African traffic Local

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands Stimulating demand for uptake of e- Infrastructures in the region …and many others 26/09/

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands Deploying CAs and IdFs ■ Within WP5 of the eI4Africa project ■ Launched a programme of deployment of Certification Authorities (CAs) and Identity Federations (IdF) in Africa ■ 5 +1 Countries participating ■ SANReN/TENET – South Africa ■ MAREN - Malawi ■ KENET - Kenya ■ Eko-Konnekct/ngREN - Nigeria ■ TERNET - Tanzania ■ + RwEdNet - Rwanda ■ A team of enthusiastic techies facilitated by Roberto Barbera (WP5 Leader), Marco Fargetta and Bruce Becker

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands Training material for CAs, IdPs/IdFs and SGs 7

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands 8 Status of CA deployment: Completed

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands Deployment of IdP/IdF: in progress ■ Complex, but team is moving on ■ Learning as the Team goes ■ SANReN and SAGrid have completed, integrated into the Africa Grid Science Gateway ■ Others completing soon ■ Each NREN is working with Universities /Research institutes to work on their IdPs

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands Status of IdP/IdF deployment: in progress 10 Other NRENs will follow soon!

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands List of actions 1.Complete the deployment of IdPs and IdFs 2.Tackle the problem of policy documents both for CAs and IdPs/IdFs 3.Involve other countries 4.Deploy Science Gateways 5.Collect applications from African research communities/groups and integrate them in the Science Gateway(s) 6.Train the trainers and train people on all the above with local trainers 11

CHAIN-REDS BoF at TNC2013 | 4 June 2013 | Maastricht, Netherlands 12 Thanks to Roberto Barbera and Joseph Kimaili for the slides Thank you all