TERENA NREN Compendium 2006
Organisational Information

Updated: 11 June 2006 at 19:30
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6.19 Form of organisation
(x)Separate legal entity of its own
( )Not a legal entity of its own
( )Not a separate legal entity and also not part of a larger organisation
Name of the parent organisation (in English)  
6.20 Formal relationship between the organisation and the government:
( )We are a government agency or part of a ministry
( )The Government appoints at least half of the members of our Governing body
( )There is an indirect relationship (for example if at least half the members
of your Governing body are appointed by research and education institutions
that in itself are (largely) government-funded)
( )No formal relationship
(x)Other, please explain below
Joint NREN function by HUNGARNET (independent) and NIIFI (government supervised, see below).
6.21 Brief description of the governing structure:
Governing structure of HUNGARNET:
General Assembly, President, Executive President, Vice Presidents (Presidential Board), Secretary General + Secretariat.
HUNGARNET closely co-operates with the Hungarian National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIF) Programme that provides the organisational and financial frameworks for developing and maintaining the infrastructure, services, and pilot applications, as well as specific content generation for and within the academic and research community. NIIF is co-ordinated by the NIIF Institute (NIIFI), an organisation operating under the umbrella of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics.
NIIF is governed by the Programme Committee, consisting of high level officers of the participating ministries (Ministry of Education, Ministry of Communications and Informatics, etc.) and some other bodies, including the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The NIIF Programme Committee operates a Technical Committee.
6.22 Description on website:
http://www.niif.hu/index.php?headline=szervezet&menu=menu-szerv.html&text=szervezet2.html (in Hung.)
6.23 Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Lajos Balint
Title of the job
HUNGARNET Executive President, NIIFI director of international relations
Chief Executive Officer (2)
Dr. Laszlo Zombory
Title of the job
HUNGARNET President
6.24Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Tamas Maray
Email
Title of the job NIIFI Technical Director
6.25Chief Technical Officer (2)
Dr. Istvan Tetenyi
Email
Title of the job Chair of the NIIF Technical Committee
6.26 Short description of major changes that occurred in the network during the past year or that are foreseen for the coming year:
1. The legal status of NIIFI has changed in May 2006. Earlier it has been the National Information Infrastructure Development Office, now it is the National Information Infrastructure Development Institute.
2. NIIFI has been operating under the umbrella of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics for several years. From June 2006 the structure of the Hungarian Government will change. The organisational relationship of NIIFI to the new Government will be determined later.
3. The research network in Hungary has been continuously developed (backbone and access network extensions and upgrades). International connectivity has been upgraded to GEANT+. No considerable changes in technology and user base occurred/foreseen.
6.27 Feedback:

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