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• Jul

  2011

  25

  10th Call for Proposals – (FP7 Research Infrastructures Programme) (0)

  

  The European Commission has published on July 20, 2011 the 10th call for proposal, detailed in the Research Infrastructures Work Programme 2012 and published under the e-Infrastructures topic of the FP7 “Capacities” Specific Programme (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1).

   
• Jul

  2011

  13

  e-IRG releases White Paper 2011 (0)

  

  The 7th White Paper of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group is now released!

   
• Jul

  2011

  5

  e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) Workshop (0)

  

  [ October 12, 2011 to October 13, 2011] The next open e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) Workshop will be held on 12-13 October 2011 in Poznan, Poland. The workshop will be organized by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the European Union.

   
• Jun

  2011

  20

  New broadband cable to boost internet (0)

  

  A new undersea telecommunications cable has recently landed in South Africa: the 14 000km West Africa Cable System (WACS) fibre optic line links the Western Cape province to London, giving African internet providers a direct connection to servers in Europe, WACS is the latest in a series of submarine cables that hold the promise of an internet boom for Africa, where only 9.6% of people are web users, compared to 65% of Europeans.

   
• Jun

  2011

  19

  Google Android Developer Challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (0)

  

  Google has announced a Android Developer Challenge inviting talented and creative developers in sub-Saharan Africa to design and build original Android applications for mobile phones that will delight users.

   
• Jun

  2011

  6

  EGI Technical Forum 2011 (0)

  

  [ September 19, 2011 to September 23, 2011] The Technical Forum will provide an overview of the EGI community and review the community’s plans and progress towards the adoption of a federated virtualised infrastructure for European researchers.

   
• May

  2011

  27

  9th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting (0)

  

  [ September 22, 2011 to September 23, 2011] The meeting aims at introducing the new e-Infrastructures projects starting in 2011, to take stock of progresses in e-Infrastructures and to discuss future perspectives on data, cloud technologies and e-Science environments, HPC and Software.

   
• May

  2011

  16

  EPIKH Workshop (June 16, 2011 – Rabat, Morocco) (0)

  

  [ June 16, 2011 ] The scope of the event is to show both to the scientific community and to the decision makers the outcomes of the Joint CHAIN/SPECIAL/EPIKH School for Grid Site Admnistrators (May 30-June 3, 2011, Rabat, Morocco) and of the Joint

   
• May

  2011

  16

  EPIKH Workshop (June 10, 2011 – Stellenbosch, South Africa) (0)

  

  [ June 10, 2011 ] The scope of the event is to show both to the scientific community and to the decision makers the outcomes of the Joint CHAIN/SPECIAL/EPIKH School for Grid Site Admnistrators (May 23-27, 2011, Stellenbosch, South Africa) and of the Joint CHAIN/SPECIAL/EPIKH School for Application Porting (May 30 – June 9, 2011 – Stellenbosch, South Africa) raising their awareness about the usefulness of e-Infrastructures for e-Science and the importance of their sustainability.

   
• May

  2011

  11

  Africa-Europe research collaboration to be transformed by EC-funded research infrastructure (0)

  

  DANTE, the international research network operator, and the European Commission’s EuropeAid Cooperation Office today announce the signature of a €14.75M contract for support to a sub-Saharan African intra-regional research networking infrastructure which is already interconnected to the pan-European research network, GÉANT.