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1 28.10.2013 Page 1© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Salem Al-Agtash, Ph.D. Arab States Research and Education Network– Bahrain ITU Arab RDF – Manama, 28.10.2013 alagtash@ASRENOrg.net ASREN Role in Developing a Pan-Arab e-Infrastructure for Education and Research

2 28.10.2013 Page 2© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Arab youth is estimated at about 200 million About 1000 Arab institutions hosting 20 million students 10% are enrolled in postgraduate studies 80% of undergraduate students in humanities, 20% in science 1:150 faculty: student ratio, and deteriorating quality 1,176.8% growing rate of online education since 2000 R&D spending is 0.2-0.5% of total GDP (5% of global spending) Highlights

3 28.10.2013 Page 3© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Research growth

4 28.10.2013 Page 4© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Why research and education networks?  Research is increasingly becoming computationally intensive and dependent on fast communication networks  Education resources are increasingly becoming available to the global community (MOOCs, Khan Academy, Coursera, FutureLearn, MIT Bloosom)  Research has become dependent on community efforts and international collaborations to solve most pressing problems and issues  Research has become digitally dependent, for access, sharing, collaboration  Tendency to adopt available quality learning resources

5 28.10.2013 Page 5© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain 5 The Global Network Global R&E connectivity

6 28.10.2013 Page 6© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain e-Infrastructure at «world» scale 6 >340 sites in 57 countries ~337,000 CPU cores >220 million GB of storage ~1 million jobs/day ~20,000 users in ~280 VOs Available resources

7 28.10.2013 Page 7© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Access paradigm Scientific resources..... Linking at the speed of the light Sharing computers, software and instruments Sharing and federating scientific data

8 28.10.2013 Page 8© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Arab States Research and Education Network Existing shareholders Shareholder discussions

9 28.10.2013 Page 9© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Status in the Arab region

10 28.10.2013 Page 10© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Interconnecting Arab States National R&E Networks  UAE Giga POP  Egypt OLE

11 28.10.2013 Page 11© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain Submarine cables in the region

12 28.10.2013 Page 12© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain ŸEUMEDCONNECT3 ŸCoordination and Harmonization of Advanced e- Infrastructures for Research and Education data infrastructures ŸThe EUMEDGRID Support Project ŸCoordination and Harmonization of Advanced e- Infrastructures ŸExchange Programme to advance e- Infrastructure Know-How Supporting Projects funded by EC

13 28.10.2013 Page 13© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain eduGAIN (www.edugain.org)

14 28.10.2013 Page 14© 2013 ASREN, GmbH, All Rights ReservedITU Arab RDF Meeting – Manama, Bahrain ASRENOrg.net

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