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28.10.2013 Page 1© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Salem Al-Agtash, Ph.D. Arab States Research and Education Network– Bahrain ITU Arab RDF – Manama, 28.10.2013 alagtash@ASRENOrg.net ASREN Role in Developing a Pan-Arab e-Infrastructure for Education and Research
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28.10.2013 Page 2© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Arab youth is estimated at about 200 million About 1000 Arab institutions hosting 20 million students 10% are enrolled in postgraduate studies 80% of undergraduate students in humanities, 20% in science 1:150 faculty: student ratio, and deteriorating quality 1,176.8% growing rate of online education since 2000 R&D spending is 0.2-0.5% of total GDP (5% of global spending) Highlights
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28.10.2013 Page 3© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Research growth
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28.10.2013 Page 4© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Why research and education networks? Research is increasingly becoming computationally intensive and dependent on fast communication networks Education resources are increasingly becoming available to the global community (MOOCs, Khan Academy, Coursera, FutureLearn, MIT Bloosom) Research has become dependent on community efforts and international collaborations to solve most pressing problems and issues Research has become digitally dependent, for access, sharing, collaboration Tendency to adopt available quality learning resources
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28.10.2013 Page 5© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain 5 The Global Network Global R&E connectivity
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28.10.2013 Page 6© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain e-Infrastructure at «world» scale 6 >340 sites in 57 countries ~337,000 CPU cores >220 million GB of storage ~1 million jobs/day ~20,000 users in ~280 VOs Available resources
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28.10.2013 Page 7© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Access paradigm Scientific resources..... Linking at the speed of the light Sharing computers, software and instruments Sharing and federating scientific data
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28.10.2013 Page 8© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Arab States Research and Education Network Existing shareholders Shareholder discussions
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28.10.2013 Page 9© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Status in the Arab region
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28.10.2013 Page 10© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Interconnecting Arab States National R&E Networks UAE Giga POP Egypt OLE
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28.10.2013 Page 11© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Submarine cables in the region
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28.10.2013 Page 12© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain EUMEDCONNECT3 Coordination and Harmonization of Advanced e- Infrastructures for Research and Education data infrastructures The EUMEDGRID Support Project Coordination and Harmonization of Advanced e- Infrastructures Exchange Programme to advance e- Infrastructure Know-How Supporting Projects funded by EC
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28.10.2013 Page 13© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain eduGAIN (www.edugain.org)
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28.10.2013 Page 14© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain ASRENOrg.net
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