The Ghana Academic Research Network (GARNET) is the Ghanaian infrastructure of advanced network for collaboration and communication in the fields of teaching and research. It aims to connect all public and private institutions of higher education and research with the mission to:

Sustain the intention to collaborate;

1. Set rules for the minimum requirement for an organization/institution in terms of its network to be a member of GARNET;
2. Agree on an equitable way of funding GARNET, including jointly leveraging in the acquisition of funding and research support from Government and Donor Agencies; 
3. Ascertain that each member has a viable network and take on the task of ensuring that a Wide Area Network (WAN) linking the members is set up;
4. Solicit for funds for improving and extending the network;
5. Setting up criteria for institutions to build their networks and looking for help for the institutions when needed;
6. Deal with the training needs of GARNET members, including organizing workshops etc. etc.
7. Operate as a body that negotiates for block bandwidth acquisitions for members by identifying a common provider (ISP).  Each member will indicate its requirements in this respect. It will liaise with the NCTE on matters related to acquiring finance to pay for ISP fees;
8. Set up guidelines for the acquisition and distribution of bandwidths for the member unit users and admit more organization into GARNET;
9. Take responsibility to get GARNET onto a National Backbone when there is one;
10. Coordinate the library resources of member institutions for common acquisition and sharing, with the eventual establishment of “Universities of Ghana virtual library”;
11. Work towards the eventual establishment of common platforms for the purpose of promoting e-learning, while encouraging individual members of GARNET to create content that can be shared;
12. Work towards inter-connecting GARNET with the networks of other research and educational institutions’ networks worldwide.

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