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New Intranet/Internet technologies are actively developed in the scientific and educational spheres. Basic networking and information technologies are elaborated now in the Academy of Sciences and leading universities of Moldova.
Networking infrastructure for science and education in Moldova development passed several stages. Initially many scientific and educational organizations in Moldova developed their internal networking segments separately, as independent sub-networks, but soon the real needs of scientific-educational society have required uniting these efforts. An organization of collaborated activity can be subdivided in some stages and the first practical results were obtained in 1996, when the Moldavian Department of Soros Foundation together with the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and the leading Universities proposed an initiative of creation of scientific-educational network “Moldnet“. Soros Foundation in Moldova supported this initiative and practical realization of the project began. The institutions of the Academy of Sciences, of the State and Technical Universities, and also the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova were originally the participants of the project and main users of resources of “Moldnet“. Later on many colleges, Lyceums, secondary schools of Kishinev were connected to “Moldnet“. The “Moldnet“ project was oriented on the use of radio-modems connections inside Kishinev. Now the central node of “Moldnet” has some connections to Internet through satellite and terrestrial channels.
The Academy of Sciences of Moldova internal network ACAD development beginning dates back to 1995, when the first networking facilities were deployed to let researchers send e-mail and files to each other, and leased telephone channel for Internet connection became available. In 1997 the Academy of sciences of Moldova elaborated a project of development of computer network AMNET (Academy of Sciences of Moldova Network), which is to provide the Academy research institutions with the internal communication, regional information exchange with leading Moldova Universities and the improved access to Internet.
The AMNET project supplements and expands ideology and basic principles of realization, being the basis of “Moldnet” creation. The project initially planned to be fulfilled in three stages. At the first stage the main structure of highways for connection of the ASM principle scientific organizations must be realized and more data links to provide an access of scientific and educational institutions of Moldova to Internet must be organized. Joining up of the majority of scientific institutions, faculties and campuses of the leading Universities and other higher educational establishments of the Moldova capital into network “backbone” on the basis of the existing and additionally created leased channels, high throughput fiber connections and leased telephone lines for remote links is envisaged at the second stage.
The third stage of the project realization planned to provide the expansion of the Academic network structure on all the territory of Moldova, include of scientific and educational establishments in all large cities of Moldova.
At the end of 1998 a program of future development of scientific and educational networking infrastructure in Moldova was elaborated and negotiated with NATO Science Program Division representatives. All previous projects ideas were sustained, but the emphasize of this stage of project realization was made on forming collaborated networking activity of all educational and scientific community of Moldova and transforming created Academic network infrastructure into new independent national scale networking segment. All previously implemented network structures have become a part of national RENAM named networking segment. The accumulated experience of organization of information systems on the basis of the Internet/Intranet technologies helped to define the strategy aims of new network development program:
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