Transcript Challenges for Less-Advanced Economies

Challenges for Less-Advanced
Economies
Jan Gruntorád
[email protected]
Managing Director CESNET
Chairman of the CEENet
NATO Consultant for Azerbaijan
SERENATE WORKSHOP
Brussels,17. – 18.9.2002
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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EVOLUTION OF R&E INFRASTRUCTURE IN CZ
CEENet
TYPICAL SITUATION IN LESS-ADVANCED
COUNTRY
CHALLENGES FOR SERENATE
EVOLUTION IN THE CZECH
REPUBLIC
NO NETWORK BEFORE 1989
1990 - CONNECTION TO EARN/BITNET
1991 - GRANT „ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
UNIVERSITY NETWORK CONNECTED TO
INTERNET“
1992 - CESNET NETWORK OPERATIONAL
1996 - LIBERALIZATION OF LEASED-LINES
PROVISION
1996 – CESNET ESTABLISCHED AS LEGAL
ENTITY IN 1996 (CESNET NETWORK)
(27 UNIVERSITIES, CZECH ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES)
MEMBER OF EC FUNDED PROJECT CONSORTIONS:
-TEN-34 (TEN-34 CZ)
-QUANTUM (TEN-155 CZ)
-GÉANT (CESNET2)
CEENet
CENTRAL and EASTERN EUROPEAN
NETWORKING ASSOCIATION
26 MEMBER STATES
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TYPICAL SITUATION IN
LESS-ADVANCED COUNTRY
- VERY LOW AWARENESS OF NEED
OF R&E NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
- LOW LEVEL OF FUNDING
- TELECOM MARKET MONOPOLY (POOR
INFRASTRUCTURE)
- COMPETITION BETWEEN SEVERAL
GROUPS (UNIVERSITIES – ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES)
LOW AWARENESS OF NEED
OF R&E NETWORK
INFRASTRUCTURE
- SEMINARS FOR THE GOVERMENTAL
OFFICIALS
- GIVE EXAMPLES OF POSITIVE INPACT ON
ECONOMY
- ENABLE CONTACTS WITH ADVANCED
COUNTRIES
LOW LEVEL OF FUNDING
- INCREASE AWARENESS
- NETWORK SERVICES ARE NOT FREE
- PROVIDE EXTERNAL SUPPORT
(COORDINATION NEEDED)
TELECOM MARKET
MONOPOLY
- PUSH FOR TELECOM MARKET
LIBERALIZATION
- EU VERY POSITIVE INPACT FOR
LIBERALIZATION IN EU ACCESSION
STATES
- PROVIDE SUPPORT ONLY IF STRICTLY
DEFINED CONDITIONS ARE MET
CREATION OF ONE NREN IN
THE COUNTRY
- AVOID COMPETITION BETWEEN THE
GROUPS
- MAKE GROUPS TO COMMUNICATE
- EU COULD ACT AS CATALYZER
NEED FOR DIFFERENT
APPROACH
- IN 90´s IP INFRASTRUCTURE FOR R&E WAS
THE FIRST IN COUNTRY
- IN MANY COUNTRIES COMMODITY IP
INFRASTRUCTURE IS MUCH MORE
DEVELOPED THAN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
R&E
- TELECOMS SEE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
R&E AS COMPETITION
GOOD LUCK
SERENATE!