TERENA Compendium of National Research and Education Networks in Europe, 2007. Information for NRENs from non-European countries

Information for NRENs who want to complete the questionnaire

NRENs from outside Europe may choose either to take the full survey or to take the mini-version of the survey. NRENs from the Asia/Pacific area are encouraged to take the APAN Survey instead. The mini-survey will be used to provide some data with which to compare NRENs in Europe with those from other continents. It may also help NRENs from other contintents to present their case to their own policy makers and/or funding bodies. We will of course send free copies of the printed edition of the Compendium to all NRENs that participate in the survey. (Get the .pdf of the 2006 printed edition.)

The web interface for the mini-survey is a work in progress. If you find any errors, tell us, so that any remaining problems can be fixed. You can either wait until it is ready or, if you prefer, download the .doc version of the survey, fill it in and return it to us.

Unless otherwise specified, please provide us with the data as of the 31st of January, 2007 (or as close to this as possible).

Note that the information that you provide will be made public through the Compendium website. Note that e-mail addresses are encoded using javascript so they cannot be harvested by spambots. We will make the answers public soon after you have updated a section. If you would like to avoid that, for example because you would like to do some internal error checking first, please let us know. We will then make information public only after you have given your explicit approval that this can be done.

In order to complete the 2007 mini-survey, please follow the following steps:

  1. Request a password. You will be asked to select your organisation and submit your e-mail address. Note that the information you submit will be checked by somebody in the TERENA Secretariat before a password will be issued to you.
    Others in your organisation are free to request a password as well, so that you can divide the responsibility for completing the various sections of the survey (although it is good to have one person in charge of the entire answering process).
  2. After you have received the password, use it in combination with the e-mail address that you used earlier to log in to the password-protected section. You will then see your record in the database. You are able to edit the sections at your convenience, one by one. Note that sessions time out after a while - it is advisable to press the 'save' button often, to save your work.
    At the top of every section you will see a date and timestamp, to provide a record of when the page was last updated.
  3. We will monitor all changes made to the database. After you have completed a section, please review it. If you are happy with it, please press the new 'send for review' button that you can see at the bottom of every section when you are not in editing mode. The word 'preliminary' in the background will then disappear, we will review your submission and either contact you if we have additional questions and/or make it public. If it is judged to be valid, the information will be made visible to anybody here. You can change and update your information as often as you wish.

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