IEEE-CERN Partnership Transforms

Entrepreneur Kendall Ananyi leveraged his extensive knowledge of computers and engineering to launch Tizeti, a startup that uses solar-powered towers to deliver affordable Wi-Fi connections to urban areas in Nigeria. In addition to serving as the company’s CEO, Kendall Ananyi maintains membership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

IEEE has entered into a partnership agreement with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to make IEEE articles free and instantly available for the public to read. CERN is a Geneva-based research center that operates the largest particle physics research lab in the world. The open-access publish and read agreement will allow CERN correspondents and authors to publish their open-access articles in all IEEE journals. This agreement creates a new way for CERN researchers to publish the results of their studies as open-access documents.

On the side of IEEE, the agreement provides reading access to IEEE’s more than 5 million documents archived in the Xplore Digital Library. It also creates an innovative way for IEEE to share its work with the global research community for the advancement of engineering and technologies that support economic growth. The public can access IEEE’s documents, which include IEEE standards, scientific journals, and conference proceedings.