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CEENET
Central and Eastern Europe
for
Network Education and Training
Oliver B. Popov
CEENet
Mid Sweden University
oliver.popov @ miun.se
TNC
June 2005
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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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Structure and Organization
 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
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Activities
 Educational/Scientific Workshops
 Technology
 Management
 Policy
 Projects
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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 knowhow 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 selfsufficiency, 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
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Yaroslavl (RU) – 1998 (co-organized with TERENA)
Ohrid (MK) – 2000
Zagreb (HR) – 2002
Chisinau (MD) - 2004
 Workshops on Policy
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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
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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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Working with others…
 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
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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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Thank you so very much
 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
Q/A
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