TERENA NREN Compendium 2008
Basic Information

Updated: 13 May 2008 at 08:48

D: Basic Information
D.1 Full name of the organisation (in English)
National Information Infrastructure Development Institute / Hungarian Academic and Research Networking Association
D.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s)
Nemzeti Informacios Infrastruktura Fejlesztesi Intezet / Magyar Kutatasi es Oktatasi Halozati Egyesulet
D.3 Abbreviation in English
NIIF/HUNGARNET
D.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s)
NIIF/HUNGARNET
D.5 Visiting address
18-22 Victor Hugo Street

Budapest, H - 1132 City/postal code
D.7 Postal address
Street

City/postal code
D.9 Country
Hungary
D.10 Fax
+36 1 350 6750
D.11 Phone
+36 1 450 3060
D.12 General e-mail address
info@niif.hu, institute@niif.hu
D.13 Website
http://www.niif.hu
D.14 Convention used for individual e-mail addresses
[firstname].[lastname]@niif.hu
D.15 Year the first research network operations started
1987
D.16 Year in which research networking was started as a dedicated organisational unit
1990
D.17 Year in which the NREN was founded in its current form
1992
D.18 Short description of the history of the organisation
http://www.niif.hu/en/story

D.19 Form of organisation
(x)Separate legal entity of its own
( )Not a legal entity of its own, but part of a larger organisation
( )Not a separate legal entity and also not part of a larger organisation
Name of the parent organisation
D.20 What is the 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).
D.21 Description of the governing structure of the NREN
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.

The NIIF Programme is executed/co-ordinated by the NIIF Institute (NIIFI), an organisation operating under the umbrella of the government.

The NIIF Programme is governed by a Programme Committee, consisting of high level officers of the participating ministries and some other bodies, including the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The NIIF Programme Committee operates also a Technical Committee.
D.22 URL to description of the governing structure
http://www.niif.hu/en/progstructure - http://www.niif.hu/en/organization - http://www.niif.hu/en/hungarnet
D.23 Senior management team
CEO Mr. Title Miklos First name Nagy Last name
NIIFI Director General Job Title

miklos.nagy@niif.hu E-mail address
CEO 2 Dr. Title Lajos First name Balint Last name
NIIFI Director of International Relations, HUNGARNET Vice President Job Title

lajos.balint@niif.hu E-mail address
CTO Dr. Title Tamas First name Maray Last name
NIIFI Technical Director and Head of R&D Job Title

maray@niif.hu E-mail address
CTO 2 Mr. Title Janos First name Mohacsi Last name
NIIFI Director of Project Co-ordination and Head of Network Development Job Title

mohacsi@niif.hu E-mail address
OTHER Title First name Last name
Job Title

E-mail address
D.24 Short description of major changes that occurred in the network during the past year or that are foreseen for the coming year
1. NIIFI has earlier been operating under the umbrella of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, anbd later the Ministry of Economy and Transport for several years. From April-May 2008 the structure of the Hungarian Government has changed. Since then, NIIFI is operating under the umbrella of the Office of the Prime Minister.

2. The research network in Hungary has been continuously developing during the last several years (backbone and access network extensions and upgrades + international connectivity upgrade to GEANT+). No considerable changes in organisational structure and mandate are foreseen for 2008-2009, while a considerable technical development (reconstruction and upgrade of the internal NIIF/Hungtarnet network) is planned for 2008-2010. No remarkable change in the user base is forecasted.
D.25 Feedback
Let our last year comment/suggestion be repeated here: Perhaps a well defined procedure might be established for enabling continuous/occasional updating of the related Compendium pages by the NRENs so that changes in their important parameters (eg. postal and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, names of contact persons, etc.) are made available immediately as such changes occur and also the TERENA member pages are corrected, if necessary, in case of such updates.
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