Conveners
Joining Forces
- Tania Altamirano López (RedCLARA)
Description
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. NRENs already do this for networking, trust & identity and security. In this session we will look at the opportunities in three other areas for going further together: shared procurement, EOSC and educational services.
How to initiate an international procurement collaboration. What are feasible goals, learnings and strengths to take into consideration. How we can achieve better outcomes for our institutions by working together. We will also discuss a practical example of a joint procurement project between HEAnet & SURF on video services.
Next to the T&I infrastructure, providing sustainable access to commercial services in EOSC has the potential to become a substantial, visible, long term and unique contribution of the GEANT community to EOSC. This presentation links the GEANT community’s work towards commercial cloud services over the years and the European Open Science Cloud. I will show the opportunity we have created for...
NRENs play a vital role in developing digital infrastructure to improve education infrastructure, flexibility and mobility. However, the unsynchronised approach to digital transformation has slowed down innovation and given commercial suppliers more opportunities. Collaboration and standardisation across NRENs, sector bodies and organisations can align developments and define interoperability...
