Internet2 Spring Members Meeting, Arlington, VA, April 9-11, Quantifying the Digital Divide Warren Matthews, Les Cottrell (SLAC), Enrique Cannessa, Hilda Cerdeira (ICTP/eJDS). Presented at the Internet2 Spring Members Meeting, Arlington, VA, April 9-11, 2003.

Internet2 Spring Members Meeting, Arlington, VA, April 9-11, MotivationMotivation Interested in connectivity and performance to HENP Collaborators –Inter-regional connectivity ICTP –Performance to eJDS subscribers

Internet2 Spring Members Meeting, Arlington, VA, April 9-11, What is the eJDS ? The Electronic Journal Distribution Service Participating Members –Egypt, Bangladesh, Brazil, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordon, Mexico, Pakistan

Internet2 Spring Members Meeting, Arlington, VA, April 9-11, Recommendations of Trieste To devote resources to monitor in real time the connectivity of research and educational institutions in developing countries and to encourage (and devote resources to) the development of the connectivity.

Internet2 Spring Members Meeting, Arlington, VA, April 9-11, The View from SLAC PingER Performance monitoring Resource allocation Troubleshooting The benefit of a connection

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8 Further Work Monitoring from ICTP More targets Other communities Monitor transitions Further Analysis Possible workshop in Trieste in November

Internet2 Spring Members Meeting, Arlington, VA, April 9-11, This is a BOF Monitoring is essential to engineering If you don’t measure, you don’t know (I.e. what I can do for you) If you are measuring, share (I.e. what can you do for me) Interested ? Indianapolis ?