International Workshop on
African Research & Education Networking
September 25-27 2005 CERN - Geneva, Switzerland
Final Program
Articles
Workshop Report
| DATE |
SUNDAY, September 25, 2005 |
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| Time | Speaker | Title |
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Day 1 |
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| 09:00 | Session 1-1 AFUNET workshop | |
| 09:00 |
Manjit Dosanjh (CERN) |
Welcome, main objectives of the workshop [slides] |
| 09:15 | Asenath Mpatwa (ITU) | ITU and the AFUNET project in the context of the WSIS [slides} |
| 09:45 | Harald Holt (Director UNU/GVU, Deputy director GRID Arendal) |
Introduction of
the UNU, UNU/GVU
Significance of the AFUNET [slides] Presentation of selection criteria for case studies |
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10:00 |
Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 | Session 1-2 AFUNET workshop (part 1) | |
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Chair:
Harald Holt (Director
UNU/GVU, Deputy director GRID-Arendal) |
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| Rapporteur(s): Brendan Barrett | ||
| 10:30 | Brendan Barret (UNU/GVU) | Overview of other network initiatives {UNU, Slides] |
| 10:40 | Banji Oyenyika (UNU) | Findings from the African DOT EDU Study |
| 10:50 | Bryan Ayres (Globalnet) | Issues in Development of Telecom Networks |
| 11:00 | Trond Skjesol (UNINETT) | A business model for AFUNET [slides] |
| 11:30 | (1) Jean M'Boliguipa | Université de Bangui (République Centreafricaine) [slides] |
| (2) Toto Jérôme Babou Bi | Université de Cocody (Côte d'Ivoire) [doc slides] | |
| (3) Moges Delelegn | Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) [doc] | |
| (4) Nora Mulira | University of Makerere (Uganda) [slides] | |
| (5) Emmanuel Frempong | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana) [doc slides] | |
| (6) Diouche Diallo | Université de Conakry (Guinea) [doc slides] | |
| (7) Matseliso Moshoehoe-Chadzingwa | University of Lesotho [slides] | |
|
13:00 |
Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Session 1-2 AFUNET workshop (part 2) | |
| Chair: Asenath Mpatwa (ITU) | ||
| Rapporteur(s): Mohamed Saled | ||
| 14:00 | (8) Ahmed-Salem Ould Cheikh | Université de Nouachkott (Mauritanie) [doc] |
| (9) Salifou Saloue | Ministère des enseignements secondaires et supérieur de la recherche et de la technologie (Niger) [slides] | |
| (10) Abdou Salam Sali | Université de Dakar, Sénégal [slides] | |
| (11) Dolf Jordaan | University of Pretoria, South Africa [slides] | |
| (12) Joseph Kuzilwa | Mzumbe University, Tanzania [slides] | |
| (13) Nawfel Eleuci | Université du 7 Novembre à Carthage, Tunisia [doc] | |
| (14) Mintesinot Behailu | Mekelle University (Ethiopia) [doc] | |
| (15) Roger Tsafack Nanfosso | Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon [slides] | |
| (16) Gilford Hapanyengwi | University of Zimbabwe [slides] | |
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16:00 |
Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 | Session 1-3 AFUNET workshop | |
| Chair: Harald Holt (Director UNU/GVU, Deputy director GRID-Arendal) | ||
| Rapporteur(s): Karen Landmark (UNU/GVU) | ||
| 16:30 | All | Round table discussions |
| 18:00 | End of AFUNET workshop | |
| 18:30 | Opening reception & Buffet (CERN) | |
| R. Aymar (CERN Director General), Roberto Blois (ITU, Deputy Secretary General), Harald Holt (Director UNU/GVU) | Welcome |
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| AFUNET Video | ||
| DATE |
MONDAY, September 26, 2005 |
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| Time | Speaker | Title |
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Day 2 |
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| 09:00 | Session 2-0: Introduction | |
| Hans Falk Hoffmann (CERN) | Workshop Goals & Objectives [slides] | |
| 09:15 | Session 2-1: Major networking initiatives in Africa | |
| Chair: Pierre Ouedraogo (AIF) | ||
| Rapporteur(s): Pr Harvey Newman (CALTECH/ICFA-SCIC), Gilles Lindecker (CERN) | ||
| M. Jensen (IDRC) | African R&E networking overview [slides] | |
| M. Campolargo (EU - Information Society) | Major EU Resarch infrastructure initiatives [slides] | |
| V. Ponraj (Director Technology Interface, Indian President's Office | India-Africa ICT project [brief , slides] | |
| S.Jaume (RENATER) | The EU EUMED-CONNECT project [slides] | |
| D.Riley (IEEAF) | High speed links to Western Africa's costal countries [slides] | |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break | |
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11:00 |
Session 2-2 (part 1) The European & South American Experience | |
| Chair: Pr Roger Cashmore (Oxford University) | ||
| Rapporteur(s): Pr Alberto Santoro (UERJ, Hepnet Brazil), Diouche Diallo (Université de Conakry) Editor: Jorge A. Sanchez-Papaspiliou (GRNET) | ||
| J. Dyer (TERENA) | "Setting up an NREN, European experiences" [slides] | |
| E. Valente (GARR) | Establishing continental backbones "The DANTE/GEANT experience" [slides] | |
| O. Popov | CEENET, Fostering regional collaborations [slides} | |
| R. Janz | The Virtual Silk Road project [slides] | |
| . | J. A. Sanchez-Papaspiliou | Advancing South-East Europe into the e-Infrastructure era: SEEREN & SEEFIRE" projects [slides] |
| F. Utreras | ALICE/CLARA, The Latin American Networking Initiative [slides] | |
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Pr. Vasilis Maglaris (GEANT2 Consortium and NTUA) |
Global Connectivity Policies of the European NREN Consortium - GEANT2 [slides] | |
| 12H30 | Sandwhich Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Session 2-2 (part 2) The African Experience | |
| Chair: Hamadoun Touré (Director ITU's Telecom Development Bureau) | ||
| Rapporteur(s): Heloise Emdon (IDRC/CDRI), Eleuchi Nawfel (Université du 7 novembre à Carthage - Tunisia) | ||
| Harald Holt (Director UNU/GVU, Deputy director GRID-Arendal & Brendan Barrett (UNU) | Highlights from AFUNET first day workshop (Case studies) | |
| Warren Mathews (Georgia Tech) | Highlights from recent Internet2 workshops on Africa [slides] | |
| Redouane Merrouch (MARWAN) | Established NRENS: MARWAN (Marocco) [slides] | |
| Imraan Saloojee (South Africa) | Emerging NREN: SANREN [slides] | |
| Ben McGarry (SARUA) | Regional projects & associations: The Southern Africa Regional Universities Association (SARUA) project [slides] | |
| Nora Mulira, Association of African Universities (AAU) | “The bandwidth initiative” [slides] | |
| Bonaventure Mve-Ondo, Association of French speaking African Universities (AUF) | "The African digital divide - Towards a global approach to solving the problems” [slides] | |
| 16:00 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:30 | Session 2-3 Existing & emerging Telecom infrastructures in Africa | |
| Session chair: David Williams (CERN) | ||
| Session Rapporteur(s): Jane Butler (Cisco), Abdou Salam Sall (Université de Dakar) | ||
| Telecom Policy & Regulatory regimes in Africa | ||
| Mercy Wanjau, ITU/BDT/Sector Reform Unit | ITU's role in Supporting establishment of Policy and Regulatory Regimes in Africa [slides} | |
| Pr Lishan Adam (CITAD) | Telecom Policy & Regulatory Regimes in Africa [slides] | |
| Telecom infrastructure development plans | ||
| Helen Jameson (GVF) | Global VSAT Forum [slides} | |
| Pr Bjorn Pehrson (KTH) | Challenges involved in the establishment of an academic broadband backbone in Southern and East Africa [slides] | |
| Albert Gazendam, Meraka Institute, CSIR (South Africa) | Optical networking is the long-term solution [slides} | |
| Brian Ayres (Globalnet) | Globalnet [slides] | |
| Marco Bes (FLAG) | FLAG Telecom | |
| Didier Kla | Côte d'Ivoire Telecom [slides] | |
| Ali Drissa Badiel | ONATEL (Burkina Fasso) [slides] | |
| Marco Bes (FLAG) | FLAG Telecom [slides map] | |
| Elke Gerlach, Victor Haddad | VSNL/Tyco International [slides map] | |
| African Internet development update | ||
| Pierre Dandjinou (AfriNIC) | "Internet capacity building in AFrica: the growing roles of AfriNIC and AfNOG" [slides] | |
| Americo Muchanga | "The role of Internet Exchange Points" [slides} | |
| 18:30 | End of Day 2 | |
| 19:30 |
Workshop Dinner (CERN) |
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| 19:30 | Welcome (Maximilian Metzger - Secretary General - CERN) | |
| 21:00 | Keynote speech (Dr Wolfgang von Rüden - Leader Information Technology Department - CERN) [doc] | |
| DATE |
TUESDAY, September 27, 2005 |
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| Time | Speaker | Title |
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Day 3 |
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| 08:30 | Session 3.1 Thematic initiatives (part 1) | |
| Session chair: Bonaventure Mve-Ondo [paper-fr paper-en] | ||
| Session Rapporteur(s): Warren Matthews (Georgia Tech), Toto Jérome Balou Bi (Université de Côte d'Ivoire) | ||
| Pete Bateman (AVU) | African Virtual University (AVU) status & plans [slides] | |
| John Butler-Adam (Ford Foundation) | Partnership for Higher Education in Africa [slides] | |
| Fritz Hahne (AIMS) | The African Institute fo Mathematical Science (AIMS) [slides] | |
| Martin Bechler (INASP) | The importance of bandwidth optimization techniques in research and education institutions in low bandwidth environments [slides] | |
| Fred Baker (Cisco) & Julianne Susanne Sansa Otim (Makerere University) | Cisco's Network Academy Program & NEPAD's e-Schools project [slides] | |
| Mouhamet Diop (African Union's NEXT project) |
UNICODE & IDN in Africa, "The Computerization of African Languages" [slides] |
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|
Alain Patrick
Aina AfNOG (African Network Operator Group) |
"The
african network operators vz the
building of new capacity"
[slides]
"Les communautés
des opérateurs réseaux africains
face au développement des capacités" |
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| 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 | Session 3.1 Thematic initiatives (part 2) | |
| Session chair: Daniel Schaffer (TWAS) | ||
| Session Rapporteur(s): Dorf Jordaan (University of Pretoria), Ahmed-Salem Ould Cheikh (Université de Nouakchott) | ||
| Pr Mohamed Tahar MILOUDI (UNESCO) | The Avicenna Virtual Campus Project | |
| Joan Dzenowagis (WHO) | WHO's Health InterNetwork & e-Health [slides] | |
| tbd, AIF | VoIP, WiFi & PKI initiatives in French speaking Africa [slides] | |
| Didier Oillo (AUF) | Overview of projects funded by the "Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie" [slides] | |
| Marco Zennaro (ICTP) | ICT development to support science in developing countries: The Abdus Salam ICTP experiences [slides] | |
| Joël Sor (CIRAD) | The SIST project [slides] | |
| Dominique Hausser (Observatoire Technologique de Genève) | Geneva-Lesotho collaboration project [slides] | |
| Silvano de Gennaro (CERN/ISF) | Informaticiens Sans Frontières (ISF), Africa@Home [slides] | |
| Viola Krebs (ICVolunteers) | Cybervolunteers [slides-en slides-fr] | |
| 12:00 |
Sandwich Lunch |
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| 13:00 | Session 3.2 Funding | |
| Session chair: Pierre Dandjinou (UNDP) | ||
| Rapporteur(s): Don Riley (IEEAF), Salifou Soule (Ministère de l'enseignement et de la recherche du Niger) | ||
| Kate Wild (IDRC) | A survey of African donor's investment [slides] | |
| Trond Skjesol (UNINETT) | Business models for National Research and Educational Networks [slides] | |
| Harry De-Backer (EU-DEV) | The European Development Fund [slides] | |
| Pierre Dandjinou (UNDP) | Overview of UNDP's report to WSIS " A survey of ICT development aids" [slides] | |
| Alain Clerc | Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF/FSN) [[slides]] | |
| V. Ponraj (Director Technology Interface, Indian President's Office | India-Africa ICT program [slides] | |
| Pierre Ouedraogo (AIF) | Intergovernmental Francophony Agency's involvement [slides] | |
| Session 3.3 Developing practical recommendations & roadmap | ||
| 14:30 | Parallel Working Groups | |
| WG1 (Fred Baker) | Technical issues | |
| WG2 (Pr Lishan Adam) | Policy, regulatory, organizational, coordination & communication | |
| WG3 (Harry De-Backer) | Business, Financial issues & Funding | |
|
16:30 |
Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 | Session 3.4 Conclusions & Recommendations | |
| 17:00 | Session & WG chairs & rapporteurs | Reports from session rapporteurs & WG chairs |
| Session 2.1 | Major networking initiatives in Africa [report] | |
| Session 2.2.1 | The European & South American Experience [report] | |
| Session 2.2.2 | The African Experience [report-fr: one two report-en] | |
| Session 2-3 | Existing & emerging Telecom infrastructures in Africa [report] | |
| Session 3.1-1 | Thematic initiatives part 1 [report-fr report-en] | |
| Session 3.1-2 | Thematic initiatives part 2 [report] | |
| Session 3.2 | Funding [report] | |
| Preliminary report to Prep-Com-III | To be presented by Asenath Mpatwa (ITU) [report] | |
| 18:15 | Asenath Mpatwa (ITU), Hans Falk Hoffmann (CERN), Harald Holt (Director UNU/GVU, Deputy director GRID-Arendal) |
Farewell messages
Closing remarks, Asenath Mpatwa (ITU) [doc] |
| 18:30 | End of Workshop | |
