SURFnet overview

TF-Media March 30, 2011Erwin BleuminkManaging director SURFnet

SURFnet, the Dutch NREN

160 institutes, 1 million end users in higher education & research

Turnover 32 million Euro, 40% subsidies

85 employees

Part of SURF

SURFspsShared Professional Services

E-Science Research Center (together with Dutch NSF)

Integration of ICT research infrastructure Networking, Grid Computing, Supercomputing, services for e-science

Collaboration in small teams

Users are the innovators

ICT enters the heart of research & education

Ownership and delivery mechanismsUsers become choosersRenting is the new owning

Changing education paradigmsSir Ken Robinson

www.thersa.org

Where good ideas come fromSteven Johnson

Chance favors the connected mind

Steven Johnson

A fundamental characteristic of our age is the rising tide of data – global, diverse, valuable and complex.

High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data

By 2014, 90 percent of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices.

Gartner

gizmido.com

map.web2summit.com

Users spend more on innovation than companies do

Eric von Hippel

His cousins reported that they liked learning from his videos better than from him

About Salman Khan – www.khanacademy.org

Researchers, instructors, and students work together simply and effectively

with the aid of ICT

Hybrid end-to-end networkthe basis for all collaboration, providingefficient, unlimited data transport

Trusted identityoffering secure and seamless access toelectronic materials and facilities

Pioneering collaboration environmentthat seamlessly integrates the services and tools provided by a large number of suppliers

Power of collaboration

Focus on resultsBasic servicesTemporary ICT services and showcasesCollaborate, challenge, and share

knowledge

Challenge talented people

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To improve higher education and research by promoting, developing, and operating shared ICT facilities that are not offered by the market of its own accord. Mission

By seamlessly linking ICT services and encouraging and developing new ICT applications, we ensure that researchers, instructors, and students can work together simply and

efficiently.Vision

A hybrid end-to-end network as the basis for all collaboration, providing efficient, unlimited data transport.Results

A trusted identity offering secure and seamless access to all the electronic materials and facilities that researchers, instructors, and students need.

A pioneering collaboration environment that reaches beyond existing boundaries and that seamlessly integrates the services and tools provided by a large number of suppliers.

We share knowledge and work with institutions, market parties, and international sister organisations, provide basic services, and create showcases and temporary ICT services.Methods

Values Results-driven innovator Reliable partner

erwin.bleumink[at]surfnet.nl

@erwinbleumink

erwin.bleumink

www.surfnet.nl

+31 30 2 305 305

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