Transcript Impact of technological changes on educational reforms and

MARNet
MACEDONIAN ACADEMIC &
RESEARCH NETWORK
Need of key technological changes
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Margita Kon-Popovska
Need of key technological changes
and developments
A analysis of the situation of the Western Balkan countries
concerning the scientific educational and cultural cooperation provided by experts from UNESCO and
Academia Europaea in March 2001 have found among
other things, the difficulties for trans-national access to
facilities such as research infrastructures, digital libraries,
computing facilities, web based distance training and elearning.
These difficulties can be seen on the maps available
against the background of the high performance networks
in Europe, that shows a lack of sufficient connections, and
therefore possibility of wider research, education and
training e-services.
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Digital divide
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Macedonia aad Balkan countries
up to 10 Gbps
MARNET 1 Mbps
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The conclusion about the priority of
developing a EES high-speed regional
electronic network was made by:
• The
UNESCO/AE/ESF
expert
conference
on
reconstruction of the scientific cooperation in South East
Europe, Venice 24th/27th March 2001;
• Confirmed by the round table of the ministers of science
held in the framework of the 31st general conference of
UNESCO in Paris, 24th October 2001;
• Further confirmed on the ministerial conference in Sofia,
3rd of December 2001;
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• quite recently confirmed on the ministerial conference in
Bucharest on 5th April 2002, where the necessity of
creating a large bandwidth regional network was once
more explicitly mentioned in the declaration;
• Remphasised and extended with a clear intention towards
the sixth framework programme on the "Workshop on Cooperation in Research, Science and Technology with the
SEE-Countries within the framework of the SAp" in Bad
Honnef 14th/15th March 2002
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Negative factors concerning developing
strategies for ICT in Macedonia
e- business, e-government, e-science, e-learning
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Low rate (up to 5%) of PC usage among the population,
Low rate of stationary telephone lines (25% of population),
Low rate of mobiles (18% of population)
Telecom monopoly until beginning of 2005, resulting in high
prices
Unemployment rate of up to 35%, substantial number of
workers being technological surplus manpower or has not
received their salaries for last 6 month,
25% of population having status of poor (under 50
euro/month)
Still not enough developed information systems concerning
on-line public services, e-business and similar.
Great brain drain of young especially educated work force
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Challengeable factors
• Relevant factors (government, universities, schools,
intelligence, parents and the young generation) realized
the need of ICT education and accepted the world vision of
a Information society.
• Obligatory ICT courses on secondary and high levels of
education, elective (depending on availability of computer
laboratories) on elementary schools level in 7 and 8 grade.
• e-Declaration adopted by Macedonian Parliament
• e-Macedonia Committee established by President of R
Macedonia (2000) as advisory body for developing
strategies for the entrance of Macedonia in the Information
Society
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MARNET History
• Established in 1994 year as a organizational unit of Ss Cyril
and Methodious University in Skopje.
• Operational work (internet service) started in 1995 by support of
ACONet and Open Society Institute of Macedonia. through the
64 Kbps satellite link to Vienna (and EBONE).
• E-mail service started earlier in 1992 year through the National
and University library, X.25 network through EARN (and Former
Yugoslavia Scientific and Technological Information System
SINTIJ).
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MARNET
Academic community served by MARNET is spread in 6 towns,
while wider potential community (elementary and middle
schools, libraries, heritage and cultural institutions) is in over
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32 municipalities and their neighborhood.
MARNET actual and potential users
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Ongoing activities and projects
the need of key technological
changes and developments
 SEEREN (start 1.Dec. 2002)
South East Europe Research Educational Network
Financed by Information Societies Technology (IST)
Programme Contract No IST-2001-38830
 MANI (start 20. Dec. 2002)
MARNET Advanced Network Infrastructure
Financed by NATO NIG Science programme
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SEEREN
Establish the South East Europe infrastructure that will interconnect the
NRENs of AL, B-H, BG, MK, YU, GR, HU and RO with International links of
2-34
Mbps.
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•Interconnect the regional NRENs to the major Geant PoP’s in this area
and thus to the Pan-European research and educational network.
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Serve as a guide for future upgrades so that all regional NRENs will be
able to participate in GÉANT(+) and be part of the European "e25.01.2003
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Science" distributed platform.
Other wider goals
• Ease the "digital divide" that still separates
most of the SEE countries from the developed
world.
• Build awareness of IST in SE Europe and nonEU countries provide a platform for
cooperation of scientific and educational
communities.
• Investigate other source of funding.
The author is solely responsible for the presented material. It does not nesseseraly represent the opinion of the E Community and
the Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of data appearing therein.
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MANI
- MARNet Advanced Network
Infrastructure
Project Co-Director from NATO country
P.J.A. Sanchez/ Dr-Ing. GRNet
Project Co-Director from Partner country
M. Kon-Popovska /Prof. Dr MARNET
Participant: O. Popov/Prof. Dr, M. Gushev/Prof. Dr,
B. Popovski/ Prof. Dr, G. Muratovski/ Mr-Ing.
Team members: V. Ajanovski/ Ing, A. Mishev/Mr Ing
Budget 207,800 eur
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Academic community in Skopje (80% of MARNET)
SKOMAN
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SKOMAN
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