Announcement

Title Description

This is a free workshop dedicated to onboarding University of Nairobi students into the world of building Decentralized Applications for the future of the Web. We will begin with high-level concepts and work out a way to an advanced understanding of blockchain

Entrepreneurship talk on Networks and Cloud Services

Engineer Henry Njoroge is an entrepreneur who provides ICT networks and cloud services. He has an ISP and does major ICT projects through his companies. He is currently researching on and implementing a cloud-based market platform in the mold of Jumia. This is in response to the emerging platform economy and what drives it.
Eng. Henry Njoroge has been invited to share with the Department of Computing and Informatics students' experiences on this platform, which they have developed from scratch and has now hit the market.

E-CLASS TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCES

UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ECLASS TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCES

Date	Time	Topic	Trainer
13/09/2021	11am -11.10am	Introductory Remarks	Chairman
13/09/2021	11.10am - 11.30am	Introduction to Active Directory	Patriciah Gitonga
13/09/2021	11am - 1 pm	Posting Course materials on eclass	eLearning Team
14/09/2021	11am - 1pm	Creating Quizzes/ Grading/ Course Evaluation	eLearning Team

COLLEGE OF BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES UON @50 CELEBRATIONS

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: Basic Knowledge on a
Novel Pandemic

65th Graduation Ceremony

The University of Nairobi wishes to inform all students from the above colleges who qualified for the award of various degrees and diplomas at the end of last academic year (2020/2021) and members of the public, that the 65th Graduation Ceremony will be held on Friday, September 24th, 2021
commencing at 8.00 a.m. at the Great Court.

Capacity building for students and researchers

The Library will host a virtual training on Remote Access to Electronic Information Resources (Books & Journals) and Research Tools (Turnitin Supervisory Tool) from May 4-7, 2021.

The main objective of the training is to guide the students and researchers on how to access the books, journals and other information resources remotely. Supervisors will be trained on how to use Turnitin software.

The following table provides the training schedule and the links to register for the training from May 4 -7, 2021

No.	Training Topic	Participants	Date	Time	Training Invitation Link
1.	Remote Access to Electronic information resources	All students and Researchers	Tue, 4^th May 2021	10-12pm	https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-6upzwpGdRgglpWmIdgp0vduO40881v
2.	Turnitin-Similarity Index	Academic staff / Supervisors	Thu, 6^th May 2021	10-12pm	https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-6upzwpGdRgglpWmIdgp0vduO40881v
3.	Turnitin-Similarity Index	Academic staff / Supervisors	Fri, 7^th May 2021	10-12pm	https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-6upzwpGdRgglpWmIdgp0vduO40881v

Links and programs for the subsequent topics to be covered will be availed on weekly basis.

For those who will not be able to participate in the training, please find step by step presentation on the above topics in the Library website using the following link: https://uonlibrary.uonbi.ac.ke/basic-page/library-guides-presentations

DISCOUNTED SAFARICOM INTERNET DATA BUNDLE FOR REMOTE LEARNING AND TEACHING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

KENET in partnership with mobile network provider Safaricom PLC, has negotiated for an eLearning Discounted Bundles package for use in remote teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The university of Nairobi students and staff are therefore encouraged to apply to supplement the University sponsored SOMA-NA-TELKOM data bundles.

This is a self –sponsored prepaid service where students or staff can purchase Safaricom 10GB/month data bundle at KES 500. The discounted bundles are restricted to accessing educational resources/websites from sources that are whitelisted by the mobile network service providers.

To register and have your safaricom phone number whitelisted to purchase the discounted bundles visit https://registration.kenet.or.ke/registration.

Kindly note that new registrations/submissions to have the phone number whitelisted will take between 7 to 14 days to be enrolled for discounted bundles purchase.

For more information on this service visit https://ict.uonbi.ac.ke/faqs or https://registration.kenet.or.ke/faq

For any technical support/enquiries about this service kindly write to customercare@uonbi.ac.ke or call +254-(0) 20-4916413 or 020- 4916414 or 020-4910000