Barcelona, January 19-20, 1996.
INTER-MED is a conference of researchers, experts, and managers of computer and telecommunication networks who want to extend the benefits of these technologies and its applications to all the Mediterranean countries with its different cultures and ways of living. We stress the importance of the INTERNET technology as a common language for all this effort. That explains the name of the conference. Although the conference is open to other telematic technology considered appropriated for this area.
The Bangeman Report presented last year a common strategy to incorporate the European Union to the emerging global information society. The Euromediterranean Conference in Barcelona is starting a new way of co-operation between both sides of our old sea. The Mediterranean cannot be left aside in the global efforts for developing the new information society and its internetworking technology.
Centuries ago, the Mediterranean generated some old ideas that seem very moderns now. The idea of cosmopolis is now at our fingerprints with the Internet phenomenon. The Alexandrine achievement of a library as a depository of universal knowledge, is now made possible by the Web technology. The ideal of koine as a peaceful and prosperous multicultural community can be a Mediterranean challenge in the information age.
The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, in co-operation with the Catalan Chapter of Internet Society and PANGEA, the Catalan node of the APC, is organising this event. Our goal is to create a network of projects between different research institutions, companies, administrations and civil organisations in order to accelerate the developing of the global information society in this region.
The conference is about information society in the Mediterranean. Its goal is to cope with the information society as an unified technical, economical, social and cultural phenomenon. In this first conference, the working areas will be four:
Friday, January 19.
First Day.
Place: Aula Master.UPC, Campus Nord.
9:00-10:00 h.
Opening remarks.
-Jaume Pages,
Exmo. Rector UPC.
-Josep Casanovas.
Director of Centre de Cooperacio per al
Desenvolupament (CCD). UPC.
-Fundació. Catalana per a la Recerca (FCR).
-Institut Catal=E0 de la Mediterrania (ICM).
-Commercial sector representant.
-What is InterMed:
Building an open and cooperative network at the regional level.
Leandro Navarro. Prof. UPC, Coordinador Pangea.
Artur Serra. Inves.UPC, Coordinador ISOC-CAT
-THE EUROPEAN UNION.
- The EC ISPO Office
Mr. Alain Servantie
EC ISPO Office.
ase@dg13.cec.be
-THE EC INCO PROGRAM.
Jose Luis Brianso
Spanish representant in the INCO Program.
fax.+34-3-5811263
10:30h.-13:00h.
-State of the art of computer networks and user organizations by region:
*MAGREB.
*Morocco.
-"INTERNET IN MOROCCO"
Dr. Amine Mounir-Alaoui
Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs
Rabat.
amine@emi.ma
*Algeria,
-"COMPUTER NETWORKS IN ALGERIA"
Sr. Mohand Tafat
President of the Algerian Unix Users Groups
Algeria.
mohand@ALGERIA.EU.NET
-"THE CERIST, THE RESEARCH CENTER ON
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION"
Salim Asselah
CERIST.
salim@ist.cerist.dz
Tunisia
"INTERNET IN TUNISIA"
-Mondher Makni
IRSIT/Eunet.
Tunis
mondher@Tunisia.EU.net
-Khaled Sellami
IRSIT
sellami@irsit.rnrt.tn
11:30 BREAK
12:00-13:30
*MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES.
Israel
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE IN ISRAEL"
Dov Winer
dovw@mofetsrv.mofet.macam98.ac.il
ISOC-Israel.
"THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR OF INTERNET
IN ISRAEL".
Vilma Solnik
vsolnik@actcom.co.il
"The MIDI, a Mediterranean institute for Development and
Innovation.
Edna Aphek.
Jerusalem.
ANP
"COMPUTER NETWORKS IN THE PALESTINIAN
TERRITORIES".
Saleem G.Zougbi
PLANET, Palestinian Academic Network
szougbi@u.washington.edu
"THE FUTURE OF NETWORKING IN PALESTINE IN
THE NEW POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT".
Marwan Tarazi
Birzeit University
mtarazi@baraka.org
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-18:00
*BALKANS.
Bosnia-Herzegovina
"ZAMIR, AN APC TRANSNATIONAL NET
IN THE BALKANS".
Eric Bachman
E.BACHMAN@ZAMIR-ZG.ZTN.APC.ORG
Slovenia.
"INFORMATION INFRAESTRUCTURE IN
SLOVENIA".
-Borka Jerman-Blazic
University of Ljubjana
borka@e5.ijs.si
"THE SLOVENIAN EDUCATIONAL NETWORK"
-Andrej Brodnik
andy@fmf.uni-lj.si
-Oliver Popov
oliver@zeus.rekt.ukim.edu.mk
Macedonia
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MACEDONIAN ACADEMIC
AND RESEARCH NETWORK.
-Oliver Popov
University Sts Cyril and Methodius
oliver@zeus.rekt.ukim.edu.mk
16:30 Break
16:45-18:00
*Mediterranean EU Countries.
Spain.
THE C4, A CATALAN CENTER OF COMPUTER,
COMMUNICATION.
-Mateo Valero.
C4 Director.
mateo@ac.upc.es
-PANGEA Network.
Technical Director
leandro@pangea.org
-CINET, BRINGING INTERNET TO THE COMPANIES.
Xavier Buyse,
Gerent of CINET.
France.
-Jacquest Ducloy.
THE ERCIM ACTIVITIES RELATED WITH THE MED.
ducloy@lorraine.loria.fr
Italy.
- "INTERNET IN SICILIA".
Matteo Fici
President of Internet_Sicilia
Palermo.
mc7579@mclink.it
-RETE CIVICA , THE MILANO EXPERIENCE.
Fiorella De Cindio
decindio@dsi.unimi.it
*APC Networks.
U.K.
-"GreenNET, AN APC COOPERATION NETWORK
Sarah Masters
sarah@ac.upc.es
Saturday, Jan 20th.
Second Day
9:00-17:00 h.
Aula Master UPC.
After looking at the state of the art of Internet and computer network in the region, we propose to start several will gather the people interested in the same area in order to know current projects and to debate about new ones. It will be based in an introduction and an open debate.
*WORKSHOP 1 InterMed Computer Networks. - InterMed NIC: Building a cooperative work system in the Mediterranean. Gerard Rodriguez. UPC. gerard@ac.upc.es Open debate *WORKSHOP 2 InterMed-Education. -MED CAMPUS Josep Casanovas, josepk@fib.upc.es Centre de Cooperació. pel Desenvolupament. UPC. I*EARN. Narcis Vives. nvives@pangea.org Open debate *WORKSHOP 3. InterMed-Commercial. -EUROMEDNET Project. Juan Carlos Martinez Col. Universidad de Malaga. Coll@ccuma.sci.uma.es -INTERNET OPPORTUNITES FOR COMPANIES: THE ICTA EXPERIENCE. Santiago Guillen, Institut Catala de Telematica Aplicada sguillen@dali.cdi.es Jordi Hinojosa hinojosa@cdi.es Open debate * WORKSHOP 4 InterMed Civic projects. *TINET Project. Manel Sanroma. URV-FUT msanroma@etse.urv.es Open debate. 17:00. Final Session, FINAL CONCLUSIONS. Leandro Navarro. Artur Serra. Invited Speaker. -Ajuntament de Barcelona -UPC Directors of the ETSETB and FIB.
The sessions will be on the UPC Campus Nord, a brand new technological campus in a beautiful Barcelona's neighbourhood.
The goal of this meeting is to study the feasibility of proposing new projects and actions to the European Commission and other organisations in the field of information society and networking technology in the Mediterranean.
This is a first meeting with a focused goal: to know each other in the region and to talk about possible common projects in the field of internetworking technology. We ask for papers explaining the state of the art of the computer networking technology in your country, your difficulties for implementing networks and applications and thinking about possible ways of co-operation.
The presentations will be short, 15:00 min. The use of transparences is requested.
*UPC.
Area of International Relations.
Rectorado.
Centre de Cooperacio per al Desenvolupament
*Capitol Catala de Internet Society.
*Pangea.
*Fundació. Catalana per a la Recerca.
*Generalitat de Catalunya.
*Ajuntament de Barcelona.
*Gas Natural S.A.
*Asertel
*CAM, Caja de Ahorros del Mediterrano.
*Navarro, Leandro leandro@ac.upc.es http://www.ac.upc.es/~leandro *Serra, Artur. artur@ac.upc.es http://www.ac.upc.es/~artur Technical Team *Gerard Rodriguez gerard@ac.upc.es *Victor Arias. victor@pangea.org Javier Castella *castella@ac.upc.es Octavi Esteve-Volart oesteve@ac.upc.es Olga Huarte. TEAT. 4276551 Carles Gascon CESCA zopcgp01@aliga.cesca.es
http://aleph.pangea.org/intermed/registration.html e-mail: intermed-reg@aleph.ac.upc.es tel: 2803132. Laura Izquierdo. Asertel. fax: 2800356