Overview
Africa Digital Campus (ADC) is the digital education strategy of WACREN, focused on translating regional digital infrastructure into practical capability for universities across Africa.
ADC connects higher-education institutions through National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and shared, federated services that support teaching, research, and open scholarship. It is designed to strengthen collaboration, reduce duplication, and ensure African institutions retain ownership and control of their digital academic environment.
ADC advances a distributed model of digital education where institutions operate as autonomous local hubs—linked through trusted connectivity, federated identity, and open standards.
What ADC delivers
From network infrastructure to academic practice
African universities increasingly rely on fragmented, externally governed, or costly-to-sustain digital systems. This weakens collaboration and limits the visibility and reuse of African scholarship.
Africa Digital Campus provides a shared digital foundation that enables institutions to collaborate while remaining independent. By federating connectivity, identity, learning platforms, and open scholarship services, ADC enables universities to focus on their academic mission while WACREN provides the trusted regional backbone.
NOUN–WACREN Distributed Campus
ADC is implemented through practical pilots and demonstrators. A flagship example is the NOUN–WACREN Distributed Campus with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN)—showing how federated infrastructure can support open learning, open science, and publishing within a single, distributed institutional framework.
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