Welcome to CERN

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Welcome to CERN
Research
Technology
Education Training
Collaborating
Computing
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From the Web to the Grid
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1st Installation Test
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LHC Experiments
30 of cost electronics computing EDMS
configuration management around the world
ATLAS, CMS - Higgs boson(s) - SUSY particles -
more dimensions? ALICE Quark Gluon
Plasma LHC-B - CP violation in B
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CERN and its Collaborating Institutes
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The community that stimulated the development of
the World Wide Web and advances the Grid
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Decades of Collaborative Culture based on "best
efforts" MoUs and Openess!
270 institutes in Europe 4600 scientists
210 institutes elsewhere 1650 scientists
1 LHC experiment 1/3 of this
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Tasks of the scientific Community

• Provide open, validated scientific and
  educational content (referees, standards, search
  engines, references, . . )
• Provide for training, participation
  opportunities in today's scientific and
  engineering endeavours
• Help with connectivity

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WSIS Declaration of Principles

• We, the representatives of the peoples of the
  world, assembled in Geneva from 10-12 December
  2003
• declare our common desire and commitment to build
  a people-centred, inclusive and development
  oriented Information Society, where everyone can
  create, access, utilize and share information
  and knowledge,
• enabling individuals, communities and peoples to
  achieve their full potential in
• promoting their sustainable development and
  improving their quality of life.

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A challenge to the world's scientistsKofi Annan,
March 7, 2003

• Science has contributed immensely to human
  progress and to the development of modern
  society. The application of scientific knowledge
  continues to furnish powerful means for solving
  many of the challenges facing humanity
• Recent advances in information technology,
  genetics and biotechnology hold extraordinary
  prospects for individual well-being and humankind
  as a whole
• At the same time, the way in which scientific
  endeavours are pursued around the world is marked
  by clear inequalities
• This unbalanced distribution of scientific
  activity generates serious problems not only for
  the scientific community in the developing
  countries, but for development itself
• The idea of two worlds of science is anathema to
  the scientific spirit. It will require the
  commitment of scientists and scientific
  institutions throughout the world to change that
  portrait to bring the benefits of science to all
  

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Role of Science in Information Society

• RSIS was a WSIS Summit Event held at CERN, the
  European laboratory for Particle Physics
• To emphasise Role of Science in the Information
  Society
• To express the voice of the scientific community
  to WSIS
• Organised by UNESCO, CERN, International Council
  of Science Unions and Third World Academy of
  Science.

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Tomorrows Digital LibrariesHow ICTs Will
Preserve and Disseminate Knowledge

• Ismail Serageldin
• Geneva
• 8 December 2003

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Ismail Serageldin
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The Enormous Weakness of the Schooling System on
which the University Builds
Ismail Serageldin
and the deficiencies of the scientific
efforts Scientists teach Teachers (my statement)
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Ismail Serageldin
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Rich Countries Vs. Poor Countries

• Income
• 40 Times
• Research 220 Times

Ismail Serageldin
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Ismail Serageldin
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Conclusions from RSISSummit Event of WSIS

• The Web will become the repository of validated
  scientific knowledge, educational information and
  also of human knowledge in general. Guidelines
  need to be established and agreed.
• Publicly funded (fundamental-) research should
  make its findings generally available
• Universities and academic institutes should have
  sufficient means to access such information
  easily,
• namely affordable connectivity,
• affordable software to access the information
• affordable access to the information itself, for
  example free access
• Grids will make participation possible

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RSIS detailed Conclusions

• Education consensus that education is needed for
  development, scientists teach the teachers a
  role for South-South cooperation "Open
  Courseware" from many Universities encouraged
  ICTs are essential
• Health ICTs can help in priority public-health
  areas (safe water, ), capacity-building,
  telemedicine
• Environment planners and decision makers need
  accurate and timely information, North-South
  collaboration essential to ensure access to data
• Economic Development open-source software should
  be made available, exchange and use of scientific
  data could be a model for society
• Enabling Technologies scientists should engage
  in policy arena and define projects with clear
  benefits, e.g., computing Grids for participation.

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ITU presentation related to WSIS
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ITU presentation related to WSIS
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Digital Access Index
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To do

• Provide open, validated scientific and
  educational content ? subject of this conference
• Provide for training, participation
  opportunities in today's scientific and
  engineering endeavours
• Help with connectivity in collaboration with ICT
  industries, institutes and governments promoting
  concrete actions based on best practice
• Promote common, bottom up scientific and
  educational endeavours
• Special CERN School of Computing for Africa?
• Scientific conference on status and needs of
  Physics in Africa?
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