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| Entity: |
Belgium - European Commission website of the entity |
| Activity: |
Géant2 website of the activity |
| Activity description: | GÉANT2 reaches over 3,500 research and education institutions in over 34 countries through 30 national and regional research and education networks. GÉANT2 provides the highest capacity and offers the greatest geographic coverage of any network of its kind in the world. It allows more data to be stored, transmitted and analysed. With GÉANT2, researchers can make use of advanced network applications and perform cutting-edge projects. The European Union supports a broader policy to ensure the global reach of research and education networks. It includes also the launching of concrete initiatives to support developing regions in the world, in particular the Mediterranean rim, Latin America and Asia via the projects EUMEDconnect, ALICE and TEIN2, respectively. These initiatives receive a financial contribution of 80% from the Cooperation funds managed by the European Commission (through DG AIDCO Programmes) to ensure the deployment of regional backbones and their interconnection with GÉANT. The establishment of a regional backbone is a key to foster cohesion and collaboration within the region, bridge the digital divide, prevent brain drain and facilitate long term sustainability. Value : € 93 million for four years from 1 September 2004 (matching funding from the project’s NREN partners brings the total contract value to € 200 million). Expected outcome : Building and operating a multi-gigabit pan-European backbone research network interconnecting Europe's national research and education networks (NRENs), conducting joint research into the development of networking technologies and services, pursuing initiatives targeted at closing the 'digital divide', through both in-depth analysis of the picture of research networking in developing areas and the provision of direct support. The beneficiary countries are South Africa and Japan. |
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| Entity from: Western Europe and North America - Belgium |
| Geographical coverage of the activity: International |
| WSIS action lines related to this activity:
Theme 2. Information and communication infrastructure Theme 6. Enabling environment Theme 7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life |
| Related MDGs:
MDG 8. Develop a global partnership for development |
| Activity type: Project |
| Time scale: Ongoing: 2004 - 2008 |
| Partners: European Union |