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Unit F3 is pleased to announce the forthcoming 8th Concertation Meeting on e-Infrastructures that will take place in Geneva from 4 to 5 November 2010.

The EGI Technical Forum 2010 will be the first major event within the EGI community and will bring together European distributed computing projects and their collaborators in academia and businesses, from around Europe and around the world.

The research and academic communities of South East Europe have made a big step towards joining the new era of long-term sustainable e-Infrastructures in Europe, thanks to the SEE-GRID-SCI e-Infrastructure for regional eScience (SEE-GRID-SCI) project,

Distance Education, the peer-reviewed international journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, will be publishing a special issue dedicated to Africa.

The 6th pan-African conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, eLearning Africa 2011, will take place from May 25th - 27th, 2011, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The main strategic objective of SIENA is to accelerate and coordinate the adoption and evolution of interoperable Distributed Computing Infrastructures through engagement with industry, standards development organisations and major stakeholders to forge community agreements on best practices and standards for distributed computing.

With the launch of their new Compute Cloud last month, the Australian Research Collaboration Service aims to bring user friendly grid and cloud computing to a whole new level.

Event registration and hotel booking are now open and a draft programme is available and the call for demonstrations and posters is open

The main objective of the Cracow Grid Workshops, which were initiated in 2001, is to support the community of researchers, developers, and practitioners who work in the fascinating field of e-Science, grid systems, and their applications.

The EU is working to decide whether the nature of its participation in the proposed policy dialogue between Africa and the EU will occur through the Science Forum on International Cooperation,

The Latin American Research Education Network (CLARA) is a non-profit International Law Organisation serving as a Latin American collaboration system by means of telecommunications advanced networks for research, innovation and education.

We are pleased to inform you that this interesting article has now been released and is available for download at the GridTalk website

It is not too late to register; the delegate rate is £345 including attendance at all conference sessions, refreshments and lunch on 1 and 2 July, a place at the conference reception and evening activities on 1 July, overnight accommodation on 1 July and breakfast.

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, enables researchers from across Europe to apply for time on the PRACE resources via a peer review process.

Rolling out the Regional Infrastructure: From dreams to achievement Infrastructure, Applications, Content, Innovation and Policy

In a ceremony EC Deputy Director General Zoran Stancic and representatives of 19 nations established PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe. PRACE is creating a persistent pan-European High Performance Computing research infrastructure and related services.

The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 was held for the second time as a big European HPC (High Performance Computing) event. The symposium featured speakers from different scientific communities as well as decision makers in science.

Commissioner Nelly Kroes announced on 19 May 2010 the EU Commission's ICT strategy for 2010-2015, the so-called Digital Agenda.

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, takes an active role at ISC’10, Hamburg, Germany on May 30 – June 3, 2010.

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