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Kenya Education Network (KENET) is a National Research and Education Network that promotes the use of ICT in Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education Institutions in Kenya.

KENET aims to interconnect all the Universities, Tertiary and Research Institutions in Kenya by setting up a cost effective and sustainable private network with high speed access to the global Internet.

KENET also facilitates electronic communication among students and faculties in member institutions, share learning and teaching resources by collaboration in Research and Development of Educational content.For any queries email training@kenet.or.ke

KENET Online Courses

KENET has developed online courses to equip the KENET Community with relevant ICT related skills. These are online self-paced courses currently being offered at NO COST to the member community. All the participants require to undertake the courses are, a laptop, stable Internet connection and a commitment to complete the course. Read more [1]

Kindly refer to the links below for relevant user guides for the Network Monitoring and Management (NMM) Course.

[[NMM Lab User Guide – NMM Lab Assignment User Guide][2]


2024 Workshops

The KENET 2024 training calendar is out. This year, KENET plans to hold three (3) in-person training courses for the purpose of strengthening our member institutions technical capacity. The calendar and full details of the planned courses can be downloaded from the KENET website or by clicking on the link (http://training.kenet.or.ke/index.php?title=Main_Page).

                                                              Summary of 2024 KENET Capacity Building Courses
No. Course Name Dates About the Training/Course Target Group Registration
1 Fundamentals of UNIX/Linux for System Administrators 26th February - 1st May, 2024 Fundamentals of UNIX/Linux Course is a foundational course for all technical personnel supporting system administration in their institutions and who wish to gain fundamental skills in UNIX and Linux operating system and their command-line operations.This course has no prerequisite skill, only basic knowledge of computers. The target for this course is technical staff from TVETs/TTCs

System / Network administrators/ ICT technical support.

Registration Closed
2 Network Monitoring and Management 13th May - 17th May, 2024 Network Monitoring and Management Course is designed to impart skills to the ICT staff managing campus networks and network operations centres (NOCs). The target for this course is technical staff drawn from Universities.

Network Engineers/Administrators and Systems Administrators. At least three (2) years’ experience

Registration Closed
3 Scalable Campus Network Design & Operations 22nd July - 26th July, 2024 Scalable Campus Network Course is a course on Switching and Routing concepts designed for ICT teams already operating a small-medium and diverse campus networks and NOC. The target for this course is technical staff from TVETs/TTCs.

Network Engineers /Administrator and Systems Administrators. At least three (2) years’ experience

Registration Closed

2023 Workshops

The KENET 2023 training calendar is out. This year, KENET plans to hold two (2) in-person training courses for the purpose of strengthening our member institutions technical capacity. The calendar and full details of the planned courses can be downloaded from the KENET website or by clicking on the link (http://training.kenet.or.ke/index.php?title=Main_Page).

                                                              Summary of 2023 KENET Capacity Building Courses
No. Course Name Dates About the Training/Course Target Group Registration
1 Fundamentals of UNIX/Linux for System Administrators 16th October - 19th October, 2023 Fundamentals of UNIX/Linux Course is a foundational course for all technical personnel supporting system administration in their institutions and who wish to gain fundamental skills in UNIX and Linux operating system and their command-line operations.This course has no prerequisite skill, only basic knowledge of computers.

System / Network administrators/ ICT technical support.

Registration Closed
2 Scalable Campus Network Operations 27th November - 1st December, 2023 Scalable Campus Network Course is an advanced course on Switching and Routing concepts designed for experienced already operating a diverse campus network and NOC.

Network Engineers /Administrator and Systems Administrators. At least three (3) years’ experience

Registration Closed

2017 Workshops

The KENET 2017 training calendar is out. This year, KENET plans to hold two (2) residential courses for the purpose of strengthening our member institutions technical capacity in both academic and research areas. The calendar and full details of the planned courses can be downloaded from the KENET website or by clicking on the link (http://training.kenet.or.ke/index.php?title=Main_Page).

                                                              Summary of 2017 KENET Capacity Building Courses
No. Course Name Dates About the Training/Course Target Group Registration
1 Scalable Campus Network 3rd - 7th April, 2017 Scalable Campus Network Course is an advanced course on Switching and Routing concepts designed for experienced already operating a diverse campus network and NOC.

Network administrators / Engineers and ICT managers. More than Three (3) years’ experience

Registration by invitation
2 Network Management & Monitoring TBD Network Management course is and advanced course for those managing a diverse

campus network and NOC operations.

Network Engineers /Administrator and Systems Administrators. More than Three (3) years’ experience

Registration Not Open
3 Faculty Workshop on use of KENET Training Lab September 18-20, 2017 The use of the training lab enhances the learning outcomes of the practical lab sessions by improving the students’ understanding of the TCP/IP in addition to skills to design, implement and administer a campus network; as well as both knowledge and skills on switching and routing networks.

Faculty who teach ICT Networking courses

Registration Closed


2016 Workshops

The KENET 2016 training calendar is out. This year, KENET plans to hold two (2) residential courses for the purpose of strengthening our member institutions technical capacity in both academic and research areas. The calendar and full details of the planned courses can be downloaded from the KENET website or by clicking on the link (http://training.kenet.or.ke/index.php?title=Main_Page).

                                                              Summary of 2016 KENET Capacity Building Courses
No. Course Name Dates About the Training/Course Target Group Registration
1 Advanced Scalable Campus Network 4th - 8th April, 2016 Advanced Scalable Campus Network Course is an advanced course on Switching and Routing concepts designed for experienced already operating a diverse campus network and NOC. Senior

Network administrators / Engineers and ICT managers. More than Three (3) years’ experience

Registration Closed
2 Advanced Network Management & Monitoring 5th -8th September, 2016 Network

Management course is and advanced course for those managing a diverse campus network and NOC operations.

Senior

Network Engineers /Administrator and Systems Administrators. More than Three (3) years’ experience

Registration Closed


2015 Workshops

The KENET 2015 Training schedule is out and can be downloaded here [[3]].The Commitment form can be downloaded here [[4]].Please send your nominations to Maureen Njue (mnjue@kenet.or.ke) or Nelisa Mwongera (nmwongera@kenet.or.ke)


No Course Name Dates About the,Course/Training Target Group Deadline for application
1 Scalable Campus Network 13th,– 17th April, 2015 Scalable Campus Network Course is an advanced course on Switching and Routing concepts designed for experienced technical staff that operates a TCP/IP network. This course requires practical knowledge of IPv4 addressing and general network concepts, proficiency in UNIX and/or Linux and Two to Three years’ experience as Network Engineers/Administrators in a medium to large campus network. Network Administrator/Engineers, ICT managers and Systems Administrators Registration Closed
2 Network Management and Monitoring 27th,– 31st,July, 2015 Bandwidth management and optimization course (BMO) is designed to provide necessary skills of managing and monitoring bandwidth usage on the campus network. The course will provide skills of bandwidth management principles within a campus environment and development and implementation of bandwidth policies. The training will also provide participants with skills to troubleshoot common campus network problems and how to install and manage network monitoring tools. Network Engineers/Administrator and Systems Administrators. Registration closed
3 Cyber Security Training 26th – 30th October 2015 Security within the campus network has become an area that Network and System administrators need to focus on. This workshop will focus on empowering the System/Network administrators in securing the services, applications, servers and campus networks in general. The course requires practical knowledge of IPv4 addressing and general network concepts, proficiency in UNIX and/or Linux and Two to Three years’ experience as Network Engineers/Administrators in a medium to large campus network., Network Administrator/Engineers, ICT managers and Systems Administrators Registration Closed


2014 Workshops

Scalable Campus Networks October 27-31 2014 Registration closed

Scalable Campus Network & Wireless LAN design April 21- May 2 2014 Registration closed

Cyber Security March 10-14th 2014 Registration closed

2013 Workshops

CCNA Wireless Boot Camp

Campus wlan & BMO training

2012 workshops

KTCIP Phase 2 LOT 3 Wireless Network Design and Implementation – Roll Out Training Workshop (November 5th to 7th 2012)

ICT Directors Roundtable on Campus Wireless LAN Policies and Implementation Strategies