CEENet - Central and Eastern Europe for Network Education and Training

CEENET Central and Eastern Europe for Network Education and Training Oliver B. Popov CEENet Mid Sweden University oliver.popov@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 Poznan 2005

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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 Poznan 2005

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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 Poznan 2005

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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 knowhow 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

 Sponsor’s Spotlights (SSL)  Evening Lecture Series (ELS)  Warsaw (1995), Zagreb (1997), Bratislava (1998), Budapest (1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004) and Ohrid (2005) Poznan 2005

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Strategy and Motto

 Have a combined team of lecturers  From the CEE countries for promoting selfsufficiency, 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 Poznan 2005

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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) Poznan 2005

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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 Poznan 2005

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Projects  ALaRI – recruitment and selection of students for a graduate programme at the UL in embedded engineering systems  @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 Poznan 2005

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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 Poznan 2005

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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 Poznan 2005

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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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