{"id":218,"date":"2023-04-24T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saben.ac.za\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2023-11-07T12:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:13:26","slug":"about-saben","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saben.ac.za\/about-saben\/","title":{"rendered":"About SABEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
South African Broadband Education Networks (SABEN) is a non-profit company serving schools and the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sectors in South Africa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
SABEN forms a part of the South Africa\u2019s NREN by serving as the sole provider of\u00a0NREN<\/a>\u00a0services to public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges in South Africa. It started as a collaboration between the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET<\/a>) and South African National Research and Education Network (SANReN<\/a>). Its purpose is to solve bandwidth poverty at South Africa\u2019s TVET colleges, thereby enabling them to\u00a0contribute meaningfully to meeting the goals of the developmental state<\/a>, by working with TVET colleges to procure self-funded connections to the SA NREN. SABEN was initially launched in 2015 as a project by TENET to assist colleges self-fund connections to the SA NREN. It has since been launched as a separate company, with continued financial support from TENET.<\/p><\/div>