CEENET

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• CEENET
• Central and Eastern Europe
• for
• Network Education and Training
• Oliver B. Popov
• CEENet
• Mid Sweden University
• oliver.popov_at_miun.se
• TNC
• June 2005

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NREN

• Organizations that provide networking services to
  research and educational community
• Use of the latest technology in advance of
  commercial exploitation
• Interconnection of R and E institutions and the
  Internet
• Development and distribution of the services
• Education and training
• Strategies for ICT proliferation

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CEE Region and NRENs

• The way it started similar issues
• Traditional respect for the academia
• Lack of awareness among the decision makers
• Social and economic difficulties change
  priorities
• Need for human capacity
• Telecom monopolies and high tariffs
• Fragmentation of efforts

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History

• 1992 (February) Four countries (BG, SL and CZ,
  HU, and PL) and ACONet, NSF, RIPE and DFN and MoU
• 1992 (December) And now there are eleven
  Working group to establish an entity
• 1993 (September) LoI to form an Association
• First GA in February of 1994 and the Statute of
  CEENet
• Special role of ACONet in assistance
• Financial
• Know-how

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Structure and Organization

• 25 member countries NRENs
• One rep per country
• One vote per country
• Keep the fees as small as possible
• Offices in Vienna (AT) and Warsaw (PL)
• Authorities General Assembly and Management
  Committee
• Secretariat
• www.ceenet.org

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Activities

• Educational/Scientific Workshops
• Technology
• Management
• Policy
• Projects
• NATO
• Cisco
• EU
• SIDA

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Goals and Objectives

• Goals
• Dissemination of the technological know-how for
  building the essential infrastructure
• Management strategies and policy issues for
  stability and sustainability
• Sustainability technological competence
  managerial vision public awareness and support

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Inspiration and Funding

• Inspired by the ISOC effort on a global scale but
  modified with regional domains and local colors
  in order to be more responsive and distributed.
• Major funding
• NATO
• OSI

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Chronology

• Regular lectures
• Theory
• Exercises and labs
• Sponsors Spotlights (SSL)
• Evening Lecture Series (ELS)
• Warsaw (1995), Zagreb (1997), Bratislava (1998),
  Budapest (1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004) and
  Ohrid (2005)

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Strategy and Motto

• Have a combined team of lecturers
• From the CEE countries for promoting
  self-sufficiency, recognition and continuous
  training
• From the EU and USA for state of the art updates
  as well as important nodes in the human network
• To expose the participants to the leaders in the
  ICT industry
• To explore the intended and unintended social
  consequences of the ICT and to reassert the maxim
  
• Connecting machines to connect people

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Structure

• Initially two tracks
• Engineering the Network (EngiNe)
• Network Knowledge Systems (NetKnowS)
• In 1998, a third track was introduced - Wired
  Education (WirEd)

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Back to the Origins and Side-effects

• From 2002, 2004, 2005 back to the one track
  EngiNe tailored to a specific audience an
  educational extension of the Silk Project with
  topics like IP over Satellite, Wireless Networks,
  and Network Security for Stability and
  Dependability
• Running a pre-workshop distance courses in all
  three tracks in 2000 and 2001. It was a very
  effective instrument both for the selection and
  the preparation of the potential participants for
  the f2f event.
• Running a pre-workshop distance course and WirEd
  in Russian language Tver 2002

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Management and Policy

• Workshops on Management
• Yaroslavl 1998 (co-organized with TERENA)
• Ohrid 2000
• Zagreb 2002
• Management - 2004
• Workshops on Policy
• Tartu 1997 (CEENet Tartu Declaration)
• Tbilisi 1999
• Bishkek 2001
• Baku 2003
• Varna 2003 (co-organized with TERENA)

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Management and Policy

• Main issues
• Target groups and domains
• Services
• Telecom and info regulations
• Relation to the policy and decision makers
• Funding models
• Strategies for growth and stability
• Challenges both technological and social

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Extensions

• July 2002 a unique type of Workshop NREN
  Creation Flying Workshop
• Three countries
• Czech Republic CESNet
• Poland NASK/POL-34
• Estonia EENet
• NREN Creation Cookbook (in Russian)
• Co-operates with Cisco Systems on the expansion
  of their Cisco Networking Academies in the CEE
  and FSU regions

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Projects

• ALaRI recruitment and selection of students for
  a graduate programme at the UL in embedded
  engineering systems
• _at_DULINE Creation and design of distance
  education courses and course in tutoring adults
  on-line
• ICT4ICT modeling ICT diffusion in CEE and
  developing countries and validation via pilot
  projects in Armenia and Macedonia

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Working with others

• NATO - www.nato.int
• Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division
  (past)
• Public Diplomacy Division (today)
• Computer Networking Panel (NIG, ANW and ARW)
• Open Society Institute - OSI www.osi.org

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• Internet Society (ISOC www.isoc.org)

Major Corporate Sponsor
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• Other Corporate Sponsors

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CEENet Human Network

• Thirty lecturers in all aspects of networking
• Twenty course designers and developers for face
  to face and distance teaching.
• Eleven years of experience in logistic and
  management of educational and training events in
  ICT
• Seven years of experience with distance education
  from design to running courses
• Access to almost thirty member NRENs and almost
  1000 former students

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Future

• The picture is different today ten of the
  CEENet members are members of EU also
• Some have very advanced networks, others are
  still lacking substantial progress
• A Few of the CA countries have exhibited not so
  responsible behavior
• More EU related projects and possibly going South
  and East

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Thank you so very much

• For your attention
• To the Organizers for the support and allocation
  of a session devoted to CEENet
• To Jacek for being kind to represent the talk at
  TNC

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