Research and Education Network C@ribNET

• Connection of Tertiary Education Institutions in the Region amongst themselves and to Universities in Europe, the United States and elsewhere for Research, Collaboration and Knowledge sharing.

– E-Education, E-Government, E-Health, E-Inclusion, Disaster Management, Regional Security

• Strategic Regional ICT infrastructure to support and facilitate Functional Cooperation amongst CARICOM Member States and its Regional institutions

• Bridge the Digital Divide in the Region to achieve Social Cohesion of Caribbean people

How are Research and Education Networks being used today?

• Distributed Learning• Virtual Laboratories• Distributed Computation• Digital Libraries• Interactive Digital Video

and Audio• Remote Instrument

Acess and Manipulation• Health Sciences• Veterinary Medicine• Surgery and Clinical

Care

• Humanities• Arts Performance• Tele-immersion• Astronomy• Bio-sciences• High Energy and

Nuclear Physics• Earth Observation,

Environment• All of the above in

combination

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Schools accessing remote instruments

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Supporting science user communities

• Research increasingly involves global resources, collaborators, data, scientific instruments. – Scientific instruments with specific geo-location needs

(e.g., optical and radio telescopes)– Unique instruments: impractical or unfeasible for each

country to “afford” its own (e.g., Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, electron microscope in Japan)

– Access/collection of geo-specific data and getting it back for analysis, visualization, sharing, prevention

• Environmental, Atmospheric/Oceanographic Studies

• Teaching and learning

MIT – Singapore Alliancehttp://www.mit.edu/sma

• Advanced engineering degree program

• MIT, NTU, NUS• Since 1998• Using Internet2

backbone network and SingAREN network

Some specialties disappearing

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Music Master Classes• Catering to the needs of

musicians – High fidelity video and audio via

MPEG2– Optimized for latency, audio/video

synchronization

• Connecting Oklahoma with the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida

– Removing physical distance as the reason why a student and instructor cannot interact

Showcases:

• Distance Teaching and Learning

• Video (and audio) as data

• Extending the reach of resources

New World Symphony

DVTS technology

30mbps each direction

Master classes at a distanceComposers

Conducting Seminars

Hillary Herndon, Miami

Anna Simeone, Pisa

Hi-fidelity Collaboration

• HD-quality video• CD-quality audio

Why Faculty Participate in Internet2

• Increasingly specialized information • Access to expertise at remote locations• Multiple learning modalities• Access to resources not otherwise

available

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Education:

Orthopedic Surgery• International Society of Orthopaedic

Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT)• California Orthopaedic Research

Network (CORN)– USC, Stanford, UCLA, UC San Diego,

and CENIC's CalREN

• Live surgery over Internet2– Education of medical school students– Interactive 3-D virtual reality imagery

Improved Medical Training• High bandwidth human

interaction • Low latency virtual reality• Reliable access to

computational resources• Secure retrieval of

medical images and data

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Source: Parvati

Dev Stanford

Real-time collaboration between students, teachers, researchers,

clinicians

•Beyond video-

conferencing:

pathologists share images

in real-time

requires high-quality

images

Clinical Training

Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education

•Beyond video-conferencing:

pathologists share images in real-

time requires high-quality images

Clinical Care

Sharing an application -California and Australia doing simulated surgery

Stanford University’s SUMMIT HAVnet project

Internet 2

3D Brain Map• Provides insight into brain

functions in real time– Very large multi-dimensional, multi-

modal, time-varying data sets

• Patient, supercomputer and doctor do not need to be in the same location– all data is transferred over the network:

• Real time visualization will aid in surgical planning and disease diagnosis

Showcases:

• Real-time data gathering and dynamic visualization

• GRID technologies

• End to end performance optimizations

• Dynamic visualization

New Methods of Health Science Research

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www.nbirn.net

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EACH BRAIN

REPRESENTS

A LOT

OF DATA

Comparisons must be made

across several image sets

Slide courtesy of Arthur Toga (UCLA)

Research Team of the Future:Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid

• Global Cancer Research Community

• Grid deployment to Cancer Centers

• Bioinformatics infrastructure

• Public data sources

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Funded by: NCI/NIH http://cabig.nci.nih.gov/

IRADS: Integrated Radar Data ServicesUniversity of Oklahoma – using NEXRAD Level II data

• 4 NWS Regional Headquarters (RHQ) sites receive data from each of 140 Doppler radars

• Each RHQ server is linked to the Internet2's Abilene Network• Data are transmitted directly to University of Oklahoma

Why Physicians/ Pharmacists Participate in Internet 2

Distributed data sharing– Electronic Health Record– National Health Initiatives (ONCHIT)– Remote and Assisted Surgery– Remote Instrumentation– Real time access to remote images

Collaboration independent of boundaries– Geography: Second Opinion Networks– Time: Learning Technology (Distance Education)– Computation: Knowledge Management– Center of Excellence

New techniques and procedures– Surgical Planning– Digital Anatomy

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Clinical:

C@ribNET Implementation Process

1. Situation Analysis and Needs Assessment of Member States, National and Regional Institutions: (November 2008)

– National Network Infrastructure– Human Resource and Management capacity

C@ribNET Implementation Process

2. Development of Strategic Business Plan for C@ribNET (February 2009)

– Development of a Business model for the Management of C@ribNET

– Design of Membership model– Development of Operational Plan for C@ribNET– Support for the development of Institutional and

National Networks– Development of strategic links and partnerships

C@ribNET Implementation Process

4. Engagement, Awareness and Mobilisation of National and Regional Institutions and the wider public(March 2009)

5. Network Design and procurement (May 2009)

6. Commence Network Implementation (September 2009)

Sample Institutions

College of The Bahamas *University of Belize *University of Guyana (UG) *University of the West Indies (UWI) * & related centresUniversity Quisqueda *University of Suriname *University of Technology *University of Trinidad and Tobago *National Colleges and UniversitiesPrivate Colleges and Universities

Sample InstitutionsCaribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI) *Caribbean Meteorolgical Institute (CMI)Caribbean Meteorological Organisation (CMO) *Caribbean Law Institute Centre (CLIC) *Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) *Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM)Caribbean Research Organisation for Standards and

Quality (CROSQ) *Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO)CARICOM GovernmentsCouncil for Legal Education (CLE) Organisation of Eastern States (OECS) *

Sample Institutions

Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) *

Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC) *

Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) *

Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) *

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) *

Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI) *Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC)*

Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) *

Association of Caribbean Tertiary Institutions

Sample InstitutionsInter American Institute for Cooperation on AgricultureEaster Caribbean Institute of Banking

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank

National Government Agencies and InstitutionsBureau of Standards Etc

Caribbean Agri-Business Association (CABA)

Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA)

Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU)Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL)

Caribbean Conservation Association (CCA)

Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC)Caribbean Organisation of Tax Administrators (COTA)

Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC)

Sample Institutions

Caribbean Regional Technical AssistanceCentre (CARTAC)

Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU)CARICOM Youth AmbassadorsCommonwealth Youth Programme (CYP)Organisation of the Commonwealth Caribbean Bar

Association (OCCBA)