CHAIN project and prospects for Sub Saharan Africa

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2010

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Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-INfrastructures (CHAIN)

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Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-INfrastructures (CHAIN) supports widely geographically distributed communities. The presentation provides aims and steps in outreach with other research networks: Conduct a state-of-the-art analysis regarding current solutions for European Grid interfacing with other world regions; Produce a set of guidelines for operational and organisational interactions, customised for the type of region; Provide support for communities that have already approached the Grid technology but are interested in collaborating with other continents; Discover and attract new scientific communities or merge similar ones actually operating within separate e-Infrastructures worldwide.

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BROADBAND, INTERNET ACCESS AND USAGE, RESEARCH NETWORKS, REGIONAL COOPERATION, UNIVERSITIES, DIGITAL DIVIDE, EUROPE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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