EU-MED EVENT 2 Amman November 4th 2008

e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean

Yousef Torman

Executive Director

Jordanian Universities Network

EUMEDDISCONNECT Yousef Torman

Brussels

October 2007

EUMEDISCONNECT

Maryo Cumpolargo

Brussels

October 2007

Efforts at the National level

MARWAN Moroccan Academic and Research

Wide Area Network Morocco

AARN Algerian Academic Research

Network Algeria

EUN Egyptian Universities Network Egypt

PADI 2 Palestinian Association for the

Development of Internet 2 Palestine

KCC Khawarizmi Computing Centre Tunisia

SHERN Syrian Higher Education and

Research Network Syria

And the Jordanian Universities Network (JUNet)

Efforts at the Regional level

PAN Arab Research and Education Network, November 2005

Rome Declaration September 2006

Arab States Network Access Point NAP,

June 2007

CAMREN Consortium Draft agreement

September 2007

Major Concerns, Obstacles …

Financial support

Technical Support

Applications

Promotion

Monopoly

Bureaucracy

Time

Many Thanks

Many Thanks to EUMEDCONNECT For bringing

researchers in the Mediterranean together and closer for the first time

Many thanks also to EUMEDCONNECT and EUMEDGRID for bringing Mediterranean NREN Managers together and for assisting them in promoting the collaborative approach in conducting research using the research infrastructures