Transcript Research and Educational Network in Azerbaijan

Research and Educational
Network in Azerbaijan
Azer Aliyev (AZRENA, Baku)
www.azrena.org
Varna, Bulgaria
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Azerbaijan Research Educational Community overview
Now the top-level
research institutes
and HIGH
SCHOOLS of
Azerbaijan are
connected to
Internet.
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Development of ICT in Azerbaijan
At the World Summit, spent in Geneva on December,10-12,2003 Mr.
Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan Republic, has appreciated the
true value of activities, spent in republic in the IKT field and has
especially noted determining role IKT in economic policy.
The basic directions of the program are:
 development of a telecommunication and information infrastructure;
 preparation of the legislative environment for transition to new IKT
system;
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creation of the state regulating committee in this field;
creation and development the electronic government ;
questions, concerning the safety of the information;
and development the scientific and technical base.
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The strategic directions of informatization
 Informatization of system educational and the
scientific institutes
 Creation and development of infocommunications structure
 The creation of information resources
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Basic purposes of AzRENA
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Development of projects and perspective technical
decisions for development and functioning of a uniform
network infrastructure in scale of all country
 Planning and creation internal subnetworks of the
educational
and
research
organizations,
which
connected to backbone network of AzRENA
 Providing full Internet services for education and
sciences with high speed external connectivity
 Creation of systems of remote training, E-working and
distance education
 Preparation and retraining of experts and users on
information technologies
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AZRENA - Foundations
Non Governmental and Non Commercial Organization
 OPENNESS :
everyone can membership
 SCALABILITY:
covers all Azebaijan Regions by BACKBONE
 FLEXIBILITY:
integrates all of the existing Network Infrastructures
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The network infrastructure of AZRENA
Arch.
University
Pedagogical
University
BSU
ANAS
AZRENA Network
PSTN Backbone
AzTU
Cooperation
University
Teachers
University
ASEU
Odlar Yurdu
University
Med.
Foreign Lang.
University
University
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Technological networking components
1. Satellite or fiber-optic link to the world
Internet-space;
2. Backbone inland (fiber-optic, radio-relay and
combined);
3. Providing of “last mile”;
4. Content inland.
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Cooperation of AzRENA with other structures
AzNET for Science and Education
The AzNET is the Azerbaijan Scientific Educational Computer
Network registered Union, founded by 4 Azerbaijan
Universities and two International organizations on the base of
infrastructure created in frame of IREX/IATP and OSI Internet
Development projects in 1999.
Currently the network connects 18 organizations (universities,
libraries and international organizations of ICT development) in
Baku and regions of Azerbaijan. More than 500 workstations
and more than 10 000 users registered and having access to the
Internet resources through AzNET.
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Projects
 NATO’s Project “Virtual Silk Highway”
 Development of Networking Infrastructure of AzRENA
and connection of the Association’s regional members to
a backbone network;
 Azerbaijan
Research, Learning and Development
(IP) Network (ARLDN)
Azerbaijan Research Community will have benefits from
HP-SEE Project next two years
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HP SEE Project in Caucasus
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The Joint Project of AzRENA and UNDP
Azeri Research, Learning and Development (IP) Network (ARLDN)
Contribution per Year
Contribution During
Project
UNDP
$117,000.00
$351,000.00
OSI-AF
$117,000.00
$351,000.00
AzRENA
$117,000.00
$351,000.00
Organization
This project aims to strengthen and extend the national IP research and
academic network in Azerbaijan for the benefit of development actors
throughout the country, and especially those working in education, science and
technology as well as the not for profit sector.
The project will open up and facilitate opportunities for exchanges, learning and
collaboration between learners, educators and the scientific, research and
academic community as well as the development community in Azerbaijan and
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their international colleagues and peers around the world.
Government Support
Providing:
 Coordination of activities of various participants
of this process (through ICT)
 Legislative and norm-legal base:
•VSAT LICENCE
(transmit and receiving)
•LICENCE for wireless Network
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AZRENA Financing
• Membership fees
•Special Resources
• The target state investments
• International grants:
- UNDP
- NATO
- and others
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AzRENA current tasks
 Development of the regional networks and the
regional educational centres;
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Improvement of Baku internal infrastructure;
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Development of the national information resources;
 Installation of two exchange points between two
networks AzRENA and AzNET in Baku and region;
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Development of the Distance Learning system;
 Study of the international experience on .az ccTLD
management and administration
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Research and Educational
Network in Azerbaijan.
Thanks for attention!
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