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CEENETCentral and Eastern Europe

for Network Education and Training

Oliver B. PopovCEENet

Mid Sweden Universityoliver.popov @ miun.se

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CEE Region and NRENs

The way it started – similar issues for CEE Traditional respect for the academia Lack of awareness among the decision

makers Social and economic difficulties – external aid Need for human capacity Telecom monopolies and high tariffs Fragmentation of efforts

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History (CEENet creation)

1992 (February) – Four countries (BG, SK and CZ, HU, and PL) and ACONet, NSF, RIPE and DFN signed MoU for cooperation among academic networks

1992 (December) – There were already eleven countries, which set up a working group to establish an Assotiation

1993 (September) – LoI to form an Association First GA in February in 1994 adopted the

Statute of CEENet Special role of ACONet in assistance

Financial Know-how

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26 member organizations – NRENs (from CEE, SEE, fSU including Central Asia, TR)

One representing organization per country One vote per country Keep the membership fees as small as possible Offices in Vienna (AT) and Warsaw (PL) Authorities – General Assembly and

Management Committee Secretariat in Warsaw www.ceenet.org

Structure and Organization

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Activities

Educational/Scientific Workshops Technology Management Policy

Projects NATO (NIGs, Consultancy, CNP members) Cisco Academies profileration EU (IST, Grundtvig-type) SIDA (SPIDER)

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Goals and Objectives of Workshops

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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Workshops: Inspiration and Funding

Inspired by the ISOC effort (mid 90’s) on a global scale but modified with regional domains and local colors in order to be more responsive and distributed.

Major funding NATO (ANW mechanism) OSI (Internet & Information programmes)

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NT Workshops: 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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NT Workshops: Format & 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)

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NT Workshops: 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

Workshops on Management Yaroslavl (RU) – 1998 (co-organized with TERENA) Ohrid (MK) – 2000 Zagreb (HR) – 2002 Chisinau (MD) - 2004

Workshops on Policy Tartu (EE) – 1997 (CEENet Tartu Declaration) Tbilisi (GE) – 1999 Bishkek (KG) – 2001 Baku (AZ) – 2003 Varna (BG) – 2003 (co-organized with TERENA)

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Management and Policy Workshops

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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CEENet 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

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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

Working with others…

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ISOC www.isoc.org

Major Corporate Sponsor

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Other Corporate Sponsors

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CEENet Human Network & Potential

30+ lecturers in all aspects of networking 20+ course designers and developers for face

to face and distance teaching. 11 years of experience in logistic and

management of educational and training events in ICT

7 years of experience with distance education – from design to running courses

Steady cooperation with 30+ 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

More EU related projects and expanding to South and East; closer cooperation with AP region

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For your attention To the Organizers for the support and

allocation of a session devoted to CEE To Jacek for being kind to present the

talk at TNC

Thank you so very much

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