SURFnet overview
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SURFnet Overview Presentation by Erwin Bleumink, SURFnet Event: March 29-31, 2011: MediaMosa and TF-Media conference 'MediaMosa, weblectures & open video'.
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SURFnet overview
- 1. TF-Media March 30, 2011 Erwin Bleumink Managing director SURFnet
- 2. SURFnet, the Dutch NREN 160 institutes, 1 million end users in higher education & research Turnover 32 million Euro, 40% subsidies 85 employees Part of SURF
- 5. SURFsps Shared Professional Services E-Science Research Center (together with Dutch NSF) Integration of ICT research infrastructure Networking, Grid Computing, Supercomputing, services for e-science
- 7. Collaboration in small teams Users are the innovators ICT enters the heart of research & education Ownership and delivery mechanisms Users become choosers Renting is the new owning
- 8. Changing education paradigms Sir Ken Robinson www.thersa.org
- 9. Where good ideas come from Steven Johnson
- 10. Chance favors the connected mind Steven Johnson
- 11. A fundamental characteristic of our age is the rising tide of data – global, diverse, valuable and complex. High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data
- 12. By 2014, 90 percent of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices. Gartner
- 13. gizmido.com
- 15. Users spend more on innovation than companies do Eric von Hippel
- 16. His cousins reported that they liked learning from his videos better than from him About Salman Khan – www.khanacademy.org
- 17. Researchers, instructors, and students work together simply and effectively with the aid of ICT
- 18. Hybrid end-to-end network the basis for all collaboration, providing efficient, unlimited data transport Trusted identity offering secure and seamless access to electronic materials and facilities Pioneering collaboration environment that seamlessly integrates the services and tools provided by a large number of suppliers
- 19. Power of collaboration Focus on results Basic services Temporary ICT services and showcases Collaborate, challenge, and shareknowledge Challenge talented people
- 20. Mission To improve higher education and research by promoting, developing, and operating shared ICT facilities that are not offered by the market of its own accord. Vision By seamlessly linking ICT services and encouraging and developing new ICT applications, we ensure that researchers, instructors, and students can work together simply and efficiently. Results A hybrid end-to-end network as the basis for all collaboration, providing efficient, unlimited data transport. A trusted identity offering secure and seamless access to all the electronic materials and facilities that researchers, instructors, and students need. A pioneering collaboration environmentthat reaches beyond existing boundaries and that seamlessly integrates the services and tools provided by a large number of suppliers. We share knowledge and work with institutions, market parties, and international sister organisations, provide basic services, and create showcases and temporary ICT services. Methods Values Results-driven innovator Reliable partner 20
- 21. erwin.bleumink[at]surfnet.nl @erwinbleumink erwin.bleumink www.surfnet.nl +31 30 2 305 305 Creative Commons “Attribution” license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ W
Editor's Notes
- The institutional backgroundSome developments in the environment
- SURF stands for-improving the quality of higher education and research through ICT innovation- Succesfull collaborationNetworkinfrastructure, (2)Security and privacy, (3) Sourcing and sustainalbleICT, (4) Professional shared services, (5) Infrastructure for digital content, (6) E-Science, supercomputing and grid, (7) Technology Enhanced EducationSURFnet:stimulate, develop and operate shared ICT services, that the market not currently delivers
- Via SURF users have control over strategy and investments policies
- In May 2009: the Government decided to reorganise the Dutch national e-InfrastructureStichting SURF will become responsible for the ICT infrastructure, overseeing Research & Education Networking, Grid Computing, Supercomputing, and services for e-scienceVia SURF users will have the control over strategy and investments policies
- Ken Robinson: Creativity is as important as literacyBut creativity is unlearned at schoolsAnalogy:industrialisation, - assembly line, - quality = no mistakes - learning as an individualThe natural learning environment is the group
- Where good ideas com fromSpaces in which ideas are generaredSlow hunch, combining hunchesConnectivity: coffee houses during enlightenment: spaces where hunches where exchanged and enrichedConnectivity is the motor for innovationThe internet: more connected, turbo on idea-development
- More data centredVirtual organisationsGlobal activitySharing and combining resources: datasets and instrumentsUsing all what’s availablePersonal equipmentServices in the cloudOpen access
- corporate applications on employee-owned notebooks andsmartphonesmain driver for adoption of mobile deviceswillbe employees
- Daaromwerkenuitbreidbareplatformenzogoed, denkaan de app stores
- Gaf les aanzijnneefjes, vanwege time schedule issues 2200 talks, 100-200k views per dagVia YoutubeThe Khan Academy's big idea is that all education should be self-driven. Rather than penalizing failure and rewarding test-taking ability (like our current paradigm), education should encourage failure and experimentation but demand mastery.
- seamlessly interconnect services, data, and toolsby encouraging and developing new ICT applications