RENU was born on 14th Day of January 2006, at an inception workshop held at Windsor Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe, where the Vice-Chancellors and Chief Executives of Universities and Research Organisations signed an MOU.
At this workshop, they resolved as follows:

• To establish the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU)
• To set up a Task Team as defined in this MoU to carry the agreed activities forward
• To establish a legal entity that will be the vehicle for the realisation of our objectives
• To ensure that RENU is an open network where admission to membership is subject only to objective qualification for membership
• To accept the Articles of this MoU as defining the process and procedures for an interim period of one year, starting 14th January 2006

Makerere University was selected to provide a secretariat role in the interim.

RENU has an office in the DICTS - NOC

Ground floor,

Block A,

Faculty of Computing and IT