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e-Infrastructures Developments in Arab Region Egyptian Universities Network Success Story Ahmed Hassan Director, Electronic and Knowledge Services Center Director, Egyptian Universities Network www.eksc.edu.eg Agenda What are Electronic

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Ahmed Hassan Director, Electronic and Knowledge Services Center Director, Egyptian Universities Network

e-Infrastructures Developments in Arab Region Egyptian Universities Network Success Story

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Agenda

  • What are Electronic and Knowledge Service Center (EKSC)?
  • Structure of the Electronic and Knowledge Service Center, Egypt
  • Affiliation of EKSC, Egypt
  • How can it help research and education communities?
  • Roles of EKSC
  • Future of EKSC
  • Conclusion
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What are Ele lectronic ic and Knowle ledge Service Centers?

  • Centers that provide services to universities, research centers, technical

colleges and institutes.

  • These services include, but not limited to:
  • Network connectivity, hosting and infrastructure (HPC,

Federation,…etc.)

  • Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems
  • Digital Library resources
  • eLearning
  • Repository of Shared Resources (National Labs)
  • IT Training
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Keep History ry and Add Serv rvices

  • EUN was the provider of the Domain Name Services and Internet in

Egypt since 1987.

  • Video Conferencing was added for several reasons.
  • Cloud Computing based Centralized Labs are added to empower

students and professors. (DELL EMC and IBM)

  • 10K Students, International Certification for 40% of them
  • 1K Professors, 30% Certification rate
  • With MCIT, ITI: Establishment of 13 Electronic Design and Embedded

Systems Labs in 7 Universities, 65 Professors Training

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Keep History ry and Add Serv rvices

  • Consulting Services for many private universities and institutes in the

following services

  • Establishing similar centers with the same structure and services
  • Enhance the web presence and ranking for universities and institutes
  • Create content for national requirement courses
  • English for Life (Two Courses, B1 and B2), according to the European

Language Framework

  • Human Rights and Corruption Prevention
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Affil iliation of EUN and EKSC, Egypt

  • EUN and EKSC, Egypt are affiliated to the Supreme Council of

Universities (SCU), the body that regulates Higher Education and concentrate efforts of Universities.

  • EKSC has a board with members from relevant Ministries and

University representatives.

  • We use a subscription based business models. Universities are

members in EKSC and pay annual financial shares.

  • EKSC structures and processes are designed to ensure good

governance.

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  • Identifying your weakness

points is necessary

  • There are many threats

Have your own strategic pla lan

  • Identify your strength points

as well

  • There are many opportunities
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Want to succeed

  • Align you strategic vision to a larger one (MoHE, MCIT,

Country Goals, Millennium Goals)

  • Be near the power (Regulation Bodies, Ministry of

Finance and Ministry of Planning, International Donors).

  • Members are attracted when they got new services with

no payments

  • Be Aware of IT Govenance
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Be Fle lexible: Moving From Content Creation to Sele lection

  • More demand of
  • Relevance
  • Effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • More Competitors (MIT, Stanford and others are available on

Coursera, Edx, Udacity)

  • More demand of updated content
  • If you are teaching today what you were teaching five years
  • ld, either the field is dead or you. ~Noam Chomsky
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Be Cooperati tive: Technology Le Leaders In Initi itiati tive

  • http://techleaders.eg/
  • Training for 720

graduate and students

  • n newest

technologies.

  • Plan for 16K

participants

  • Partnership with top

ranked universities and eLearning Platform

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You are not t a super man. . Clo lose Some Services

  • Many Services in your data center are not working
  • Others are working but they are just history
  • Close some services.
  • Remove Electricity. Nobody will shout.
  • Upgrade some services and remove the old ones.
  • Engineers tend to keep old services, Ensure they do not.
  • Example: Three legacy email systems  Microsoft office 365 with zero cost
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Use Governance in Higher Education.

  • Universities today are subject to many regulations governing
  • Data retention and service level agreements with entities
  • utside higher education
  • Ministry of social solidarity
  • State Authorities
  • Arabic Embassies
  • Financial accountability.
  • Ministry of planning
  • Ministry of Finance
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How can EUN and EKSC empower Governance in Higher Education?

  • Fund raising
  • HPC with BibAlex and SESAME
  • Provide network of people who can

foster change in universities

  • Consolidate University outputs to

beneficiaries

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  • Provide Internet II (Gloriad and Geant links) but who will provide the rest to

students?

How can EUN and EKSC empower Governance in in Hig igher Education?

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Thank You