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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 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 www.eksc.e .edu.eg 3

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 www.eksc.e .edu.eg 4

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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 www.eksc.e .edu.eg 6

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 www.eksc.e .edu.eg 7

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. www.eksc.e .edu.eg 8

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Have your own strategic pla lan • Identifying your weakness • Identify your strength points points is necessary as well • There are many threats • There are many opportunities www.eksc.e .edu.eg 11

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 www.eksc.e .edu.eg 12

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 old, either the field is dead or you. ~Noam Chomsky www.eksc.e .edu.eg 13

Be Cooperati tive: Technology Le Leaders In Initi itiati tive • http://techleaders.eg/ • Training for 720 graduate and students on newest technologies. • Plan for 16K participants • Partnership with top ranked universities and eLearning Platform www.eksc.e .edu.eg 14

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 www.eksc.e .edu.eg 15

Use Governance in Higher Education. • Universities today are subject to many regulations governing • Data retention and service level agreements with entities outside higher education • Ministry of social solidarity • State Authorities • Arabic Embassies • Financial accountability. • Ministry of planning • Ministry of Finance www.eksc.e .edu.eg 16

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 www.eksc.e .edu.eg 17

How can EUN and EKSC empower Governance in in Hig igher Education? • Provide Internet II (Gloriad and Geant links) but who will provide the rest to students? www.eksc.e .edu.eg 18

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