1. EthERNet Social Network
Alazar Alemayehu– EthERNet - Ethiopia
EthERNet e-Research Hackfest – Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

2. Scientific problem area Starting point Technology stack
Outline
Scientific problem area
Starting point
Technology stack
Computational and data model
Implementation strategy

3. Scientific problem (duplicate this slides as many time as needed)
Please describe :
What scientific domain is this application addressing ?
What are the identified problems that this application tries to solve ?
What do you see as some of the benefits of using the web for this application?

4. We have all this resources
Scientific problem
We have all this resources
how do we make sure that all researchers have gotten access to these research materials?
How do we guarantee that all this information is used as intended?
How can we make sure that new researchers can follow the same footstep by learning from experienced one
How do we make sure that every time spent on internet is worse spending
Social networks are beyond liking, chatting and commenting….
We want to show that social networks are there to solve problem

5. We have all this resources
Scientific Solution
We have all this resources
We could have used social media but..
Whom do you think spent searching a specific research paper on Facebook
We could have used Google search engine but Google does not provide tailor-made solution to those searches
Wouldn’t be better to build our professional social network under EthERNet
This serves as index of resources to which those website that contain resources are listed here

6. This is not just a social network
Scientific Solution
This is not just a social network
It is discussion forum in which researcher collaborate on different issues
It is a forum in which universities exchange experience
So other research companies can interact with this researchers through this social network through EthERNet
It is network of Ethiopian/African Researchers

7. There could be two kind of users normal and admin :
Workflow
There could be two kind of users normal and admin :
Admin is all about controlling the situations, giving information, indexing publications ….

8. There could be two kind of users normal and admin :
Workflow
There could be two kind of users normal and admin :
User will have its own Federated Authentication and
Then it is all about
Participating in forum
Getting experience
Looking for your research files
It is social media which is all about
Sharing resource and experience

9. Data model  :
Most data come from users but the media data are from the resource storage build till now (resource repository build under the
sci-gaia projects)
Since the network is through EtherNet Network, It would give high computing power and network,
For time being through intranet they connect
When the network grows it can be used a social network in which
you can put your CV as researcher

10. Which of these models apply to you ?
Computing model
Which of these models apply to you ?
Persistent cloud computing (commercial/private cloud)
Using EtherNet’s intranet Network
Mobile computing (Android/iOS apps, Messaging)
Later when the application gets most users, it would be necessary to develop an android app

11. Implementation strategy
The final product will have
Forum for every issues and subject areas
Personal contacting
Map indicating where to go to get a required research paper
Which serve as CV
Front end (obviously there would be a web interface)
Authentication

12. Implementation strategy (duplicate this slides as many time as needed)
The final product will have
Forum for every issues and subject areas
Personal contacting
indexed indicating where to go to get a required research paper
Final Mileston
Full social network ready to be deployed for researchers

13. Implementation strategy
Using Glibrary for the whole web and
Authentication can be done either using federated authentication method or Glibrary’s built in authentication method

14. Risks and unknowns (optional)
What do you think will get in your way?
Advertising to users would be one of the big challenge
Making people to migrate from other social networks would be another challenging issue

15. We all Are CHAMPIONS

16. Thank you!
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