Press Release (97)54 26 May 1997

NATO Advanced Networking Workshop on "First CEENet Workshop on Networking Policy" 29-31 May, 1997 in Tartu, Estonia A NATO Advanced Networking Workshop (ANW) concerning the development and support of national academical computer networks in Central and Eastern Europe will take place in Tartu, Estonia, on May 29-31 this year. The Workshop is organized by the Central and Eastern European Networking Association (CEENet). CEENet was created in 1994 and is for the most part the offspring of one of the first NATO ANWs held in Budapest. The major task of this association is to support the integration of Central and Eastern European networks into the international environment. Key speakers of this first CEENet Workshop are coming from NATO member states and Cooperation Partner (CP) countries. They will address themes such as network organization and administration, acceptable user policies, international cooperation, privacy, security, as well as financing and funding possibilities, academical vs. commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs), charging, relations with Public Network Operators (PNOs) and Telecoms and peering agreements. For this workshop approximately 60 academicians and government representatives from 20 countries will participate. In order to keep this workshop to a limited number of participants but still covering all responsible institutions in most of the CP countries, attendance is by invitation only. The group of participants is composed of the directors of national academical/educational networks and one government official responsible for network funds from each CP country as well as of prominent networking experts. Information about this workshop and its results is available through the co-directors: Prof. Howard Frederick from the "Sächsische Entwicklungsgesellschaft für Telematik GmbH", tel: +49-341-992-7900, fax: +49-341-992-7910, e-mail , and Dr. Jacek Gajewski from the Warsaw University, Poland, tel: +48-22-628-1893, fax: +48-22-629-4309, e-mail gajewski@fuw.edu.pl. For further information concerning NATO's contribution in supporting the priority area "Computer Networking", please contact Dr. De Wispelaere, Programme Director, NATO, Division of Scientific and Environmental Affairs - B-1110 Brussels - Belgium - (fax: +32-2-707.42.32).