Bandwidth Management and Optimisation: Activity Partners

INASP work with a core group of expert and activity partners in the area of bandwidth management and optimisation. This includes people from the following organisations:

• Tertiary Education Network (TENET)
• UbuntuNet Alliance
• AfriConnect
• Aptivate
• Experts drawn from partner universities and research organisations

The partners to which these activities are focused and offered are those specific partners that INASP has been asked to work with in this area and/or additional institutional partners who meet certain requirements and have certain needs in this area. In addition, INASP aims to work with emerging or established National Research and Educational Networks (NRENs) where ever possible.

Universities and research institutions that meet the following criteria are of particular interest in relation to these activities:

• Those that currently have a bandwidth management and optimisation problem
• That have access to electronic information resources either via various access initiatives or via regular subscriptions and such
• That have large-scale electronic information access use or demand by researchers, students and staff
• Recognise that bandwidth needs to be managed as a strategic resource

Programme funding and support

VLIR and IDRC complimentary support

Funding and support for the "Bandwidth management and optimisation training support" activities 2004-2007, has been made available from both the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Official credits

VLIR: This programme is undertaken as the "Optimization of the use and management of bandwidth ay unniversity level" undertaken with financial support from the Flemish Interuniversity Council.

IDRC: This programme is undertaken as the "Supporting training for the optimization of university bandwidth in Africa" undertaken with financial support from the Canada Fund for Africa.

Additional funding credits

In addition to the funding provided as above, INASP would also like to acknowledge funding support from the Department for International Development (DfID) as part of their general support provided to INASP and the PERI programme.