Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting BELIEF Project Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers

EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers Contents BELIEF Aims BELIEF Expanding frontiers BELIEF so far Brainstorming Future BELIEF

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers Outcome: Effective exploitation and development of eInfrastructures internationally, adding value to industry, research and society Aim : Create a knowledge sharing and dissemination platform for eInfrastructure users and providers Method: Online: a digital library; search and contact facility; one-stop information; Offline: brainstorming to develop ideas, networking and conferences to create collaborations and awareness, publications to disseminate knowledge on eInfrastructures, their trends and implications BELIEF AIMS

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 BELIEF: expanding frontiers To create synergies and knowledge exchange between the research infrastructure competencies of Europe … …..create collaborations between Europe’s eInfrastructures and those in emerging economies, Latin America in particular, and India, plus USA…. Expanding frontiers means also: new user communities; create awareness of new possibilities that eInfrastructures open up

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 BELIEF so far Community members – from Latin America, India, Europe, Business, Research and public administration Search and contact; Case studies facility; eConcertation forum; eUpdates and one-stop shop information and… Digital Library: 3700 docs and rising - audiovisual files, deliverables oSearch by collection or project. oMembers benefit from standard/ advanced browse, DMS, private groups. oCase Study Dissemination facility (! EU India Grid!) oYou can be a part of it:

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 BELIEF so far Research-Industry handbook on business opportunities and trends of new user communities Collaboration with projects o11 MoUs with projects for dissemination and DL documentation harvesting…more welcome oCommon dissemination with EGEE-II, OMII Europe, DEISA and DANTE(Geant2): European eInfrastructures guide and film oeConcertation: online discussion board, agenda creation

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 Brainstormings Scientific Repositories, April 2006, Linz Europe-wide, world-wide, content repositories: Technology report charting a roadmap to establishing large-scale scientific repositories for Knowledge Infrastructures Biomedical Informatics - CERN (plus ERNET)

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 Future BELIEF  IST 2006, eInfrastructures and Future Media  International eInfrastructures conference, New Delhi, December  3 Brainstormings in 2007: Legal Implications (Manchester) Business applications (Dublin); Security applications (USA)  International Conference: Sao Paolo July 2007  Networking session, Budapest PLUS: Expanding DL; RI Handbook editions; Technology reports; Dissemination and knowledge exchange service

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 eInfrastructures and Future Media Content-dependent sectors such as: TV, gaming, telecom, publishing, e-learning, (digital) libraries, and cultural preservation. Share the need in research for managing, sharing, transforming and preserving data Harnessing infrastructures to this end will add huge value to their activities, transform business models. Exchange know how and ideas between researchers and industries on how to harness eInfrastructures for media research: RI projects, business, research… eInfrastructures convergences and trends

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 eInfrastructures Conference, Delhi December Connecting Knowledge today for the value of tomorrow… How best to sustainably harness the eInfrastructures link between India and Europe, and expand to new and wider user communities. Create a community of grid stakeholders to discuss what may be new/pilot application areas for EuroIndian eInfrastructures:- Forum for technical/Project discussion: training, middleware interoperability – training, networking sessions, exhibition Outcome: eInfrastructures ‘grassroot’ voice to Policy bodies Themes:eHealth, Scientific repositories, eLearning; sustainability; Mobile and grid convergence; reducing the digital divide; government services driving eInfrastructures; Business implications and uptake

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 BELIEF and New Frontiers Contribution to projects’ respective events: as speakers, sharing of contacts in key user communities, synergies in efforts to create eScience (and other) communities Disseminate news and developments through BELIEF structures (website, events…), NB Case studies Hosting future documentation on the BELIEF DL - wealth of information for registered members, dissemination opportunity Help EU-India Grid raise priority topics of eInfrastructures in India through its conference14-15 December EU-IndiaGrid – BELIEF: typical BELIEF collaboration

Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 BELIEF and You Come to the Conference in Delhi – put issues on the agenda, promote your project Register with as a community memberwww.beliefproject.org Help shape future directions – online eConcertaion between projects Help bridge the gap between eInfrastructure supply and the application visions/demands: input into discussions with wide community. EU-IndiaGrid – BELIEF

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Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding frontiers EU-India Grid Kick-off meeting, ICTP, October 2006 BELIEF Community Member Register for: Digital library: Single information source for eInfrastructure projects; Precise search returns; To bridge users with providers; tool for coherent development of eInfrastructures Search and contact over 250 eInfrastructure stakeholders Project and event outputs (reports, handbooks) Information on events, news. Knowledge transfer with Latin America and Indian eInfrastructures stakeholders