Improve service to teaching and research institutions. It was with this purpose that the Mozambique Education and Research Network, MoRENet, set up a national framework for eduroam, a service developed for the international education and research community offering wireless internet access without the need for multiple logins and passwords. With this, members of MoRENet and later the institutions that are part of this network, will be able to access the local Wi-Fi network and more than 80 countries in the world, using the same login and password of their respective institutions.

“The configuration of eduroam is quite simple. Simply access a Wi-Fi network of the same name from your computer, laptop, mobile phone or tablet”, said the expert in Services of RNP who operated in the project, Marcelino Cunha. 

To implement the service in Mozambique, MoRENet was supported by RNP in planning, training, weekly follow-up meetings and joint technical activities, both remote and in person. The network analyst at the Mozambican network, Lino Jorge Khalau, who led the implementation of the service, came to the organization's office in Brasília at the end of 2016 for technical meetings. “RNP has assigned experts to this project, who have helped us a lot in every step. And the opportunity to be in Brazil was fundamental to consolidate the learning about the implementation of a totally new service for Mozambique. The completion of this process was a great pride because we occupy position 85 on the world map of eduroam”, said Khalau.

One of the responsible for Morenet's technical support was RNP Operations Analyst – Luciano Rocha. “Helping to implement eduroam in Mozambique was a challenging yet rewarding experience”, he said. For RNP Services Manager, Jean Carlo Faustino, who coordinated the collaboration project with the Mozambican network, “MoRENet's entry into the international eduroam represents the expansion of the benefits of the service, an alignment of Mozambique as one of the main international trends From simplified authentication to services, in addition to facilitating and facilitating the implementation of new services, such as FileSender and MConf”.

The results of this cooperation between Brazil and Mozambique will also help in the Magic (Collaborative Applications and Virtual Communities Global) Work Package (WP) 2 indicators, which addresses the diffusion of identity federations and eduroam to other regions of the world. World, whose delivery is also being coordinated by RNP.

RNP and MoRENet: long-term partnership

RNP and MoRENet have already been carrying out technical cooperation activities since 2013. During this period, MoRENet representatives visited RNP to obtain information for the institutionalization of the Mozambican network, establish possible collaboration activities and participate in training. In November 2015, for example, Lino Jorge Khalau attended in the Agile Infrastructure course, held at the RNP Training and Innovation Seminar (SCI).

Another highlight of the partnership was the activation of the training center of the RNP Higher School of Networks (ESR) in the city of Maputo, Mozambique, in June 2015. This was the first pole outside Brazil and aims to take knowledge of Specialists of the Brazilian academic network for the African continent.

MoRENet was organized in 2005 and is one of the academic networks connected to the UbuntuNet Alliance, a regional association of NRENs in Africa aiming to bring connectivity at high speed and cost-effective to the region.