Second DIGITAfrica Summer School trains 32 students in Senegal on 5G and research infrastructure

21 October 2026

The second edition of the DIGITAfrica Summer School on Digital Sciences and Research Infrastructures was held from 12 to 15 October 2026.
The venue was the Ecole Polytechnique de Thies in Senegal.
Thirty-two students from seven Senegalese higher education and research institutions took part over four days.
Training covered 5G networking, cloud-native infrastructure, artificial intelligence and digital services.
Participants built a 5G infrastructure, tested it and then joined multidisciplinary teams for an Urban Digital Services Hackathon.
Partners included UNESCO Campus Africa, the Network of Public Engineering Training Institutions in Senegal, the Senegalese Association of Computer Science Researchers and Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar.
Studies under DIGITAfrica have covered five African countries: Tunisia, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya and Cameroon.