International Networking e-Infrastructures in North Africa

EUMEDCONNECT - The EUMEDCONNECT project is a pioneering initiative to establish and operate an IP-based network in the Mediterranean region. Countries in the Mediterranean region able to benefit from the EUMEDCONNECT project are Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

CAMREN - the Arab Mediterranean Countries will extend the EUMEDCONNECT and the EUMEDGRID projects, and at the same time it will work on building a sustainable regional research network as well as supporting the national research network at each country. Altough CAMREN is not legally established yet, it started the activities of promoting the concept of research networks and collaborative approach
in doing research among the Arab Mediterranean Countries and it was introduced to the research communities in Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Syria, Libya, Tunis and Egypt. The concept was also introduced and discussed within the Arab League ICT Policy Committee
meeting in Amman (28-30 Sept 2007) and it was welcomed and proposed to be adopted in the General Arab Strategy for Communication and Information Technology. The CAMREN approach makes a step forward from bilateral agreements to the vision of peaceful cooperation in the Mediterranean Area and in the Middle-East.