Conveners
PLENARY SESSION I – Paper Presentations
- Pascal Hoba (Ubuntunet Alliance)
Mr
Bram Peeters
(SURFnet)
17/03/2016, 11:00
NREN Business and Governance Models
**1. Introduction**
National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) exist in most countries. They all provide services to – minimally - the higher educational sector, some provide services well beyond that.
NRENs come in many different organisational models, from departments of a ministry to independent companies. All NRENs however are challenged to provide the right services to their...
Dr
Robert Janz
(Project manager)
17/03/2016, 11:20
NREN Business and Governance Models
NRENs not only serve closed user groups on a not-for-profit base, but also on a not-for-loss basis. The primary customer base of NRENs consists of research and higher education institutions and the NREN often have to compete for the provision of Internet services with large monopolists or (even larger) commercial companies. Emerging NRENs more than often face challenges to convince government...
Mr
Tiwonge Banda
(Ubuntunet Alliance)
17/03/2016, 11:40
NREN Business and Governance Models
For several years the subject of business models for national research and education networks (NRENs) has been at the center of discussions in the NREN community. Research and many business leaders agree that business models offer a better way of predicting business success rather than industry classifications. A business model describes the logic of how a firm creates values for its clients...
Dr
Francis Tusubira
(Knowledge Consulting Limited)
17/03/2016, 12:00
Invited