DIGITAL DIVIDE AND
HEPGRID
WORKSHOP
February
16 - 20, 2004
UERJ
- Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
ICFA, understanding the vital role
of
these issues for our field’s future, commissioned the
Standing Committee on Inter-regional
Connectivity
(SCIC) in 1998, to survey and monitor the state of the networks
used
by our field, and identify problems. For the past three years the SCIC
has focused on understanding and seeking the means of reducing or
eliminating
the Digital Divide, and proposed in ICFA that these issues, as they
affect
our field of High Energy Physics, be brought to our community for
discussion.
This led to ICFA’s approval, in July 2003, of the
Digital Divide and HEP Grid Workshop.
A series of reports by the SCIC to ICFA (February 2003), on the major
networks
used by high energy physics and on the Digital Divide, may be found at
http://cern.ch/icfa-scic .
Workshop Goal
The main purpose of
this
Workshop is to discuss the Digital Divide and its
impact over High
Energy Physics Grid Projects : countries ability to take
part
of HEP Collaborations, network availability and other related topics.
Talks
There will be only invited talks. If you are interested to present a poster,
please
contact the Workshop chairs .
Round
Tables
Round tables are being organized where
representatives
of HEP community, governments and funding agencies will debate topics
related
to Digital Divide.
Tutorials
During the two
weeks
preceeding the Workshop, a series of Tutorials will be held at UERJ.
Click here to see the current list
of Tutorials and don't forget to register to attend when making your
Workshop registration.
Deadline for Registration: January 10, 2004
