TERENA NREN Compendium 2010
Basic Information

Updated: 4 October 2010 at 09:57
Organisation:
Users / Clients Connectivity Services Traffic Technical Services Funding and Staffing Basic Information
  1. National Information Infrastructure Development Institute / Hungarian Academic and Research Networking Association
  2. Nemzeti Informacios Infrastruktura Fejlesztesi Intezet / Magyar Kutatasi es Oktatasi Halozati Egyesulet
  3. NIIF/HUNGARNET
  4. NIIF/HUNGARNET
  5. Victor Hugo 18-22
    Budapest, H - 1132
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  7. Hungary
  8. +36 1 350 6750
  9. +36 1 450 3060
  10. institute@niif.hu
  11. http://www.niif.hu
  12. 1987
  13. 1990
  14. 1992
  15. http://www.niif.hu/en/story
  16. (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
  17.  
  18. ( )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
  19. Joint NREN operation by HUNGARNET (independent) and NIIFI (government supervised, see below).
  20. 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 and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

    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.
  21. http://www.niif.hu/en/progstructure - http://www.niif.hu/en/organization - http://www.niif.hu/en/hungarnet
  22. (x)Yes ( )No
  23. http://www.niif.hu/aup/ - English translation: http://www.niif.hu/en/aup
  24. (x)Yes ( )No
  25. http://www.niif.hu/aup - English translation: http://www.niif.hu/en/aup
  26. ( )Yes (x)No
  27.  
  28. (x)Yes ( )No
  29. No public access to the related URL
  30. (x)Yes ( )No
  31. (x)Yes ( )No
  32.  
  33. ( )Yes ( )No ( )Planned
  34.  
  35. 1. NIIFI has earlier been operating under the umbrella of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, later the Ministry of Economy and Transport, from 2008 the Office of the Prime Minister, from early 2010 the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

    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 going on during 2009-2011 (HBONE+ project and related network and service development activities). No remarkable change in the user base is forecasted.
  36. Introducing and announcing of a well defined simple procedure for occasional updating of the major basic information (postal and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, names of contact persons, etc.) on the related Compendium pages by the NRENs could help a lot, by being connected with an immediate appropriate updating of the related member pages on the web.