Poznan 2005TNC1 CEENET Central and Eastern Europe for Network Education and Training Oliver B. Popov CEENet Mid Sweden University miun.se TNC June 2005

Poznan 2005TNC2 NRENs  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 2005TNC3 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

Poznan 2005TNC4 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

Poznan 2005TNC5  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  Structure and Organization

Poznan 2005TNC6 Activities  Educational/Scientific Workshops  Technology  Management  Policy  Projects  NATO (NIGs, Consultancy, CNP members)  Cisco Academies profileration  EU (IST, Grundtvig-type)  SIDA (SPIDER)

Poznan 2005TNC7 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

Poznan 2005TNC8 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)

Poznan 2005TNC9 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

Poznan 2005TNC10 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)

Poznan 2005TNC11 NT Workshops: Structure  Initially two tracks  Engineering the Network (EngiNe)  Network Knowledge Systems (NetKnowS)  In 1998, a third track was introduced - Wired Education (WirEd)

Poznan 2005TNC12 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 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

Poznan 2005TNC13 Management and Policy Workshops  Workshops on Management  Yaroslavl (RU) – 1998 (co-organized with TERENA)  Ohrid (MK) – 2000  Zagreb (HR) – 2002  Chisinau (MD)  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)

Poznan 2005TNC14 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

Poznan 2005TNC15 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 2005TNC16 CEENet Projects  ALaRI – recruitment and selection of students for a graduate programme at the UL in embedded engineering systems – 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 2005TNC17  NATO -  Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division (past)  Public Diplomacy Division (today)  Computer Networking Panel (NIG, ANW and ARW)  Open Society Institute - OSI Working with others…

Poznan 2005TNC18  ISOC Major Corporate Sponsor

Poznan 2005TNC19 Other Corporate Sponsors

Poznan 2005TNC20 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

Poznan 2005TNC21 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

Poznan 2005TNC22  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 Q/A