Central and Eastern European Networking Association (CEENet)

Central and Eastern European Networking Association (CEENet) is an association of 26 national organizations which focus on the academic, research, and educational computer networking. Current members of CEENet are: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. Additionally, CEENet maintains close cooperation with networking organizations in Azerbaijan, Bosnia&Hercegovina, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. CEENet has also signed the MoU with TERENA about the cooperation with Western European Networking organizations in all educational activities.
The primary mission of CEENet is the international co-ordination of the establishment and operation of academic, research, and education computer networks. The Association has the direct access to the majority of IT departments in nearly all universities and research institutes of relevant countries. CEENet itself maintains several distribution lists used for dissemination of information.
CEENet has early recognized that the widespread usage and acceptance of Internet, networking, and information technology depends on well trained and educated individuals involved in building the infrastructure, enacting the services, and effecting the management. The main instruments of the Association education initiative are workshops and conferences.
Since 1995 CEENet has (co-)organized 7 Network Technology, 3 Network Policy and 2 Network Managerial workshops in 8 different countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asian FSU countries. In total CEENet has trained ca. 880 students. CEENet maintains close links with the alumni of their workshops, who serve as the valuable source of information from their countries and a powerful dissemination mechanism. In many cases CEENet was instrumental in forming international teams for various IT related projects.
One of the international projects developed by CEENet, in 1999, is the "Internet Infrastructure Data Base Project". In the course of this project, CEENet has collected data from 27 countries by establishing in each country the 'data collecting' person, who has a vast knowledge and live contacts not only to the academic but also commercial IT communities.
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CVs of key persons
Dr. Jacek Gajewski graduated from the Physics Faculty of Warsaw University where he received his PhD in 1975. He worked in large international teams as an Elementary Particle physicist in Germany, FSU and Switzerland (CERN for 6 months), England, France, Hungary, Japan, Sweden and the USA. He is the author of 70 scientific papers and is fluent in English, German and Russian, with a passive knowledge of basic French and Czech. Since 1994, Dr J. Gajewski is the Secretary General of the Central and Eastern European Networking Association (CEENet), which groups academic and educational networks from 26 countries. From 1995 to 2001, he co-chaired the Organizing Committees of CEENet Network Technology, Policy and Management Workshops (in Warsaw, Budapest, Tartu, Zagreb, Yaroslavl, Bratislava, Tbilisi, Ohrid and Bishkek) and was the co-director of respective grants from Open Society Institute and NATO Science Committee. From 1999 to 2000, within the EC-funded IT project called MONHX, Dr Gajewski has been responsible for a feasibility study of National IT Host creations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Since 1994 Dr Gajewski is a member of the Internet Society (ISOC) and in 1996 he was nominated as a candidate to the ISOC Board of Trustees. In 1995 he co-founded the "Internet Community of Poland" (PSI), and from 1995 to 1997 was on its Board. Currently he is on the Board of the Polish chapter of ISOC.
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