Speaker
Description
Global hyperscale outages in 2025, such as the AWS outage and the global Cloudflare outage, exposed the fragility of centralized cloud dependencies. For institutions in the Global South, these failures compound local constraints such as power instability, high latency, and legal requirements of the Data Protection and Privacy laws, turning cloud adoption into a sovereignty issue. This session presents an actionable blueprint for transforming regulatory constraint and infrastructure fragility into competitive advantage, paving the way for stronger, sovereign-by-design infrastructure for Ugandan and continental innovation.
What will the TNC audience take away from your talk?
The global disruptions of 2025 highlighted the critical need for sovereign cloud infrastructure to ensure genuine digital resilience in research and education. African National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) have successfully demonstrated that these systems can be developed cost-effectively, remain operational amidst failures of major cloud providers, and enable global collaboration tailored to local needs.
| Are you a first time speaker at TNC? | Yes |
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