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BASIC INFORMATION
ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION
STAFFING
FINANCES, BUDGET
USER BASE
CAPACITY AND PLANS
SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENTS

BASIC INFORMATION

Full name of the organisation (in English:)

National Council for Scientific Research

Visiting address:

For DHL:
Lebanese National Council
for Scientific Research
Imm: Dagher, Bir Hassan
BEIRUT, Lebanon

Postal address:

P.O. Box 11-8282

City/postal code:

BEIRUT

Lebanon

Year operations started:

1996

Short description of the history of the NREN:

The CNRS history with networking started in 1995 when a single email address was established in France. Later on, a local area network was established with a Unix server and about twenty PC, upgraded afterwards with routers and modems. IP address and domain name of CNRS were assigned in 1996, and a connection via a leased line was set up. Within its mandate to support research in Lebanon and to foster relations and services among universities and research institutions, CNRS offered through a private local Internet provider and over telephones lines email services free of charge to all research institutions.

Fax:

+961 1 82 2842

Phone:

+961 1 850 125

General e-mail address:

hamze@cnrs.edu.lb

ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

Form of organisation:

Governmental organisation (govt. dept., agency or organisation under govt. umbrella, etc.) /

Brief description of the governing structure:

CNRS is an official public institution under the supervision (tutelage) of the Prime Minister.

Name(s) of Chief Executive Officer(s):

Prof. Mouin Hamze

Secretary General

STAFFING

FINANCES, BUDGET

Method of client charging:

We do not charge them directly

USER BASE

Total number of students in tertiary education (x 1000):

82, year: 1995

Remarks:

Presently CNRS is offering all internet services via a connection of 64 Kbps ¼ shared with others through ISP with dial-up lines to research institutions and NGO. More than 150 PC distributed among CNRS headquarters and its research centres and research institutions are connected to the server of CNRS.