GÉANT Time Compendium Project and Service Updates Melanie Pankhurst, DANTE TF-CPR Network Meeting Vienna, 13 February 2014

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The GÉANT Time

The Compendium Online (Christian Gijtenbeek) Project and NA2 updates & GN4 plans (Melanie)

Services updates (Karl & Nino)

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Reviews & Reports “dissemination is excellent”

! GN3 Final Review – Excellent 2nd year running! !   Live streaming !   12 recommendations !   4-page GN3 Achievements brochure

! Year 1 GN3plus Review & Report coming up

! GEANT PR Survey – revising the questions

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GN4 Planning

! GN4 Working Group – submission due Nov 2014 !   Over 150 NIFS received (22 outreach)

–  Marketing & Communication (Activity) –  Product Marketing (Task)

!   Evaluations by Advisory Boards !   Summary & conclusions to NREN PC in March

! GN4 Phase 1 expected to run April 2015 to March 2016, under a Horizon2020 Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA).

! The GN4 call was launched by the EC as part of Excellent Science – e-Infrastructures – H2020-EINFRA-2014-2

! Strategy & Innovation draft report for discussion – due very soon

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Comms Support for Project Office New initiatives ! Open Call official launch on 31 January !   Web page & intranet page !   Ongoing (joint) comms activity

–  News, video, TNC, posters, profiles ! Internal news/comms – emails & archive

!   Weekly PMO news – for participants !   Monthly Bulletin – for NRENs and participants !   GÉANT Showcase – Thursdays, noon

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Materials & news - for re-use ! GN3 Project Achievements – a 4 page PDF

about the key achievements of GN3

! Interactive global map – http://map.geant.net – feedback welcome (European connections are being updated this week)

! European topology map – new version to be published this week

! CONNECT issue #14 just published, print copies on their way to you

! Refer to PR Guide - to help with your GÉANT-related communications

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Events past & future ! Exhibited at ICT2013 with ITER/IFERC

(nuclear fusion); EMBL-EBI (bioinformatics) ! Eduroam demo kit !   Clouds workshop

! Exhibited at Supercomputing 2013

! Coming up !   FI !   TNC !   NORDUNET !   SC14

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Topology Map

Your input please: ! Do you use it?

! Are speeds important to show?

! Or just connections between countries?

D R A F T

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Successful press outreach ! NA2 Task 1 issued a press release in January covering the sonification of data

from Voyager 1 and 2 – a fun way to demonstrate the power of R&E networks. The story was posted online and through social media; pitched to journalists – new and existing relationships – and we received some amazing coverage (with important GÉANT mentions): !   Technology press GigaOm, Wired, Huffington Post Science, and more. !   Mainstream press Guardian, Telegraph, BBC Science, Google and more. !   Reached 5 million Twitter accounts, 500k mentioning GÉANT directly !   Radio interviews on BBC, and Slovenia’s main radio station !   Italian audiences at ANSA.it; La Stampa

! Audience of around 50-75 million reached! ! Excellent journalist relationships created/improved…

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Guardian – 12 million audience

Guardian: “Now Domenico Vicinanza, a project manager at GÉANT – Europe’s high-speed data network that powers CERN and the Large Hadron Collider among other things…”

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WIRED UK – 250,000 (US has 22 million)

Wired magazine: “Domenico Vicinanza works at GÉANT, the pan-European data network that offers speeds of up to 500Gbps to researchers. He has used this network to sonify NASA voyager spacecraft data.”

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Telegraph – 10 million audience Huffington Post – 5 million UK audience

Telegraph: [The product manager at] “GÉANT, Europe’s high-speed data network that powers the Large Hadron Collider and CERN, has converted 37 years of data..”

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Mail Online – 17 million audience

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BBC News – 30 million online audience

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25% increase in total page views

Global Location by Sub Continent/region

59% rise in Facebook “likes” 160% rise in Twitter followers

Importance of social media, press and international community

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www.twitter.com/GEANTnews | www.facebook.com/GEANTnetwork | www.youtube.com/GEANTtv

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Thank you!