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UNINETT and why (e)Campus matter
Uninett, the Norwegian research and education network, connects over 200 institutions and 300,000 users, aiming to enhance learning and research through initiatives like eCampus, which focuses on mobile services, lecture capture, and web conferencing. The organization addresses network challenges in Norway, a geographically diverse country, by standardizing services and sharing best practices while ensuring effective connectivity across campuses. Their ongoing development involves community collaboration, technical specifications for AV equipment, and plans for an operational solution in 2011.
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- 1. UNINETT and why(e)Campus matters Joint TF-CPR and TF-Media meeting, Trondheim 07.10.2010 Ingrid Melve, CTO, UNINETT
- 2. UNINETT: the Norwegianresearch and education network The research network Internet
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- 4. eCampus FAS: sharedadministrative systems
- 5. Sigma: advanced scientificcomputing
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- 7. UNINETT figures Connecting200+ institutions
- 8. Connecting 300 000+users
- 9. NORDUnet is upstreamprovider
- 10. Total of 75employees, half in the research network
- 11. Turnover in 2009:213 MNOK
- 12. Where is thisplace? Norway
- 13. < 5 millionpersons
- 14. Long country withfjords
- 15. Distributed higher education,distributed population
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Editor's Notes
- #5 Norway: small country, small population, not easy to do high bandwidth We have a tradition for collaboration on ICT solutions in the HEI space, this goes way back. May come from the fact that there as so few of us.
- #10 Open transparent processes - (not mention: eduGAIN closing openwiki) - it is silly to be closed in a deployment effort - it costs us time to keep others out of the information loop - we know that openness works - we need to share beyond the insiders, to bring in and build a community - it is old fashioned and outdated to close information and work flows, this is the age of Internet collaboration and social networking - when we are open, we get feedback and input