BIHARNET

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BIHARNET

• Role and interest in the project
• MSc Azemina Vukovic
• 13-14.10.2005

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BIHARNET

• BIHARNET - BH academic and research network has
  been established in 1998 as donor project of
  Republic of Slovenia.
• BIHARNET has been registered as legal entity.
• At the beginning, the network had 2 Mbps
  international connection through ARNES from
  Slovenia.
• The founders of BIHARNET were all BH
  universities, and they were connected in a the
  network
• In the period when BIHARNET was fully functional,
  representatives of all universities had its
  members in Steering and Expert boards. At that
  time, cooperation and sharing of information
  between universities were very well.

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BIHARNET

• The network was the first institution of higher
  education and research established on state level
  in post war BH.
• Unfortunately when the donors project ended the
  BH governments have not provided financial
  resources for its normal work and development so
  the network got disconnected.
• BIHARNET center, in charge of network management,
  even though the network is not operational, is
  very active in projects and other development
  processes in BH and makes significant efforts to
  reactivate the network.
• Basic reason why the network is still not
  reactivated is lack of legal regulations on the
  state level.

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Role in the project

• Participation in the project SEEREN2 is
  completely new type of participation of BH in
  such projects.
• So far, BIHARNET had problems to provide
  participation of Universities as third parties in
  projects. First step forward was made in project
  SEEGRID.
• In the SEEREN2 project, we have participation of
  third parties from the very beginning of the
  project, which is completely new approach and
  shows progress in that sense.

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Role in the project

• The role of BIHARNET in this project is
  coordination related to third parties.
• Increase awareness within academic community in
  BH about importance of high capacity network
  infrastructure
• Access to various services significant for
  overall development
• Dissemination of relevant information about
  SEEREN2 to competent bodies

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Interest for participation in SEEREN2

• Support to reactivation and full operation of the
  network in entire BH territory
• To help bridge digital divide between BH and the
  rest of developed Europe
• To provide connection to GEANT2 PoPs for all
  universities in BH
• Through SEEREN2 project provide significant
  increase in the network capacity available for
  communication and research among end users of the
  research and education community in BH

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Next steps

• On the basis of conclusions from Kick-Off meeting
  BIHARNET will organize a meeting with third
  parties with the goal of defining activities in
  the country
• A presentation of SEEREN2 project for Rectors
  Conference will be held with the goal of sharing
  information and providing support for the project
• Disseminate information about the SEEREN2 project
  among state and entity institutions with the goal
  of providing support for development of network
  infrastructure for research and development