Since 1997, the #AsiaPacific Advanced Network (#APAN) has been facilitating collaborations across the region and beyond with the aim of advancing networking #technologies and promoting #highperformance broadband applications.

Read more about APAN's journey 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/10/bridging-continents-igniting-innovations-the-apan-journey

This article also featured on the latest #CONNECT Magazine, #CONNECT45:
https://connect.geant.org/connect45

The #Compendium website is the database that holds responses to the annual surveys; the place you go to find Compendium Reports; and once again the best place to explore the #data collected!

The new website has lots of new features, such as the Compendium Data Explorer section which allows users to narrow in on a specific question or a small subset of #NRENs at a time, to see how they have evolved.

Discover how to navigate the new website 👉 https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/03/a-new-compendium-website
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As technology evolves, new risks emerge. Professionals constantly need to be able to adapt and learn. So, together with Senai São Paulo, #RNP (the Brazilian #NREN) is preparing 120k students in #Brazil to become “white hat hackers” (Hackers do Bem) to reduce the gap between vacancies and trained #cybersecurity professionals.

Read more on 👉
https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/10/120000-students-on-the-path-to-becoming-a-white-hat-hacker-in-brazil

This article also featured in the latest #CONNECT Magazine, #CONNECT45: https://connect.geant.org/connect45

#information #security

We met with David Heed, senior IT-security practitioner at @sunet and joint task-lead for #security products and services in the GN5-1 project.

He discussed the need for a common platform to facilitate and standardise cyber threat intelligence sharing to overcome the main #cybersecurity challenges of the #research & #education sector.

Read the interview at https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/03/how-cyber-threat-sharing-can-improve-security-and-resilience-for-research-and-education-interview-with-david-heed-sunet

This article also featured in the #CONNECT45: https://connect.geant.org/connect45

#data #resilience #phishing #trust

Now at their second iteration and procuring the third one, GÉANT #cloud frameworks continue to be a fundamental propelling and shaping force for #DigitalTransformation in European #Research & #Education.

Read about the impact & added value of these initiatives and how they are enabled by the unique position, aggregating power, knowledge of R&E communities, collaborative approach, expertise of GÉANT & European #NRENs: https://connect.geant.org/2024/03/20/how-geant-cloud-frameworks-outline-the-cloudscape-of-european-re-a-panoramic-view

Also featured in #CONNECT45: https://connect.geant.org/connect45

CARNET, the Croatian Academic and Research Network, is leading the way to inclusive and digitally advanced educational landscape with transformative projects such as ATTEND, e-Universities, BrAIn, and CroQCI.

Read how the Croatian NREN is shaping the future of the country: https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/05/carnets-cutting-edge-projects-empowering-education-for-all-and-building-a-secure-communication-infrastructure

This article is also featured in our latest #CONNECT Magazine, #CONNECT45: https://connect.geant.org/connect45

#Croatia #Research #Education #NRENs #Quantum #AI #universities

✨ #ComputerAid recently completed a successful delivery of IT equipment - 65 #laptops and charging cables - to #URAN in #Kyiv to help the Ukrainian R&E community carry out remote teaching and #learning during the #war.

Read the interview with Ludovic Gautier, Head of Programmes at Computer Aid. He tells us about his work and how this project came about: https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/03/computer-aid-delivers-it-equipment-to-ukrainian-universities

This article also featured in our latest Magazine, #CONNECT45: https://connect.geant.org/connect45

#EaPConnect #Ukraine

Did you know that #university computers in #Finland have been connected to each other for 40 years already?

#FUNET has been enabling Finnish #science and the development of higher #education and celebrates its anniversary in a recent article 👉
https://connect.geant.org/2024/03/19/funet-40-years-of-telecommunications

This article was also featured in the latest #CONNECT Magazine, #CONNECT45: https://connect.geant.org/connect45

@nordunet #NRENs #technology #innovation #connectivity #research

Elana Araújo works in Advanced Computing at Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), FCCN unit.

In this piece, she shares her view on how the field has been developing and advancing in #Portugal - see, for example, the new #supercomputer Deucalion.

As a #WomanInSTEM, she speaks about building a more equitable workforce
👉 https://connect.geant.org/2024/03/27/driving-the-future-of-advanced-computing-a-female-perspective-on-stem

Also featured our latest magazine #CONNECT45: https://connect.geant.org/connect45

#womenintech #womeninstem #womenempowement #womeninHPC #womeninscience

GÉANT & #NRENs play an instrumental role in unlocking the potential of commercial #cloud for European #Research & #Education.

In a recent interview, we explored how two initiatives led by GÉANT - OCRE and WP8 of #EOSC Future - made lasting contributions to #CommercialCloud #procurement for research and catalysed #innovation by stimulating cloud adoption, and we discussed main challenges and lessons learned with GÉANT members involved👉 https://connect.geant.org/2024/03/19/from-the-ocre-project-to-eosc-future-lessons-learned-in-commercial-cloud-procurement

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