Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)

Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) is a non-profit activity that has worked since the late 1980s to help develop and deploy networking technology in various projects throughout Asia/Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New Independent States. Partially supported by grant award 0726077 from the US National Science Foundation, the NSRC provides technical and engineering assistance to international networking initiatives building access to the public Internet, especially to academic/research institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The NSRC is based at the University of Oregon, where we work in collaboration with the Advanced Network Technology Center (ANTC), and Network Services.

The NSRC works directly with the indigenous network engineers and operators who develop and maintain the Internet infrastructure in their respective countries and regions by providing technical information, engineering assistance, training, donations of networking books, equipment and other resources. The end goal in this work is to make it easier for local scientists, engineers and educators to collaborate via the Internet with their international colleagues by helping to connect communities of interest. By strategically working with universities, research institutes, Internet Service Providers, Regional Internet Registries, government agencies, supranational agencies, industry, private foundations and non-governmental organizations, the NSRC helps develop national and regional Internet infrastructure for collaborative research, education, and international partnerships.

Upcoming Events

WirelessU-NSRC-ISOC: Cotonou, Bénin Workshop

From November 9-13 the NSRC, WirelessU.org, NetworkTheWorld.org and ISOC will be supporting and teaching a workshop in Cotonou, Bénin. The workshop is targeted to members of the academia (researchers/teachers) and technical schools and also to engineers and ICT managers interested in technical and practical aspects of wireless computer networking with low-cost technology such WiFi. Additional support for the workshop has been given by the ISOC Bénin and ISOC Togo chapters. A complete description of the workshop is available in French here.

Sixth PacNOG Meeting and Workshop

The Sixth Pacific Network Operators Group meeting and workshop (PacNOG6) will take place from November 16-26, 2009 in Nadi, Fiji. The event is coordinated by PITA and supported by the NSRC, APNIC, Cisco Systems, ICANN, internetNZ, ISOC, ITU, National Science Foundation, O'Reilly Media, Telecom Fiji Ltd. and the University of Oregon.

Initial Registry Operation Course

The NSRC will be teaching and supporting an Initial Registry Operation Course to be held in Dakar, Sénégal from December 7-11, 2009. The course is supported by NSRC, ISOC and ICANN as a joint project to help build capacity in the ccTLD operations area.

More Events
A list of upcoming events is available here or you can view our network training workshops if you would prefer.

Publications

(Available in multiple languages and formats)

Steven Huter and Adiel Akplogan contributed a short article for the Guardian's feature story about the future of the Internet, published on December 3, 2007.

Workshop Resource Centre

The Internet Society Workshop Resource Centre is a repository for sharing lab-based educational materials and planning tools for network technology workshops. Funded by ISOC and the Public Internet Registry, the WRC is developed by the NSRC and hosted at the University of Oregon, with additional support from the National Science Foundation.

Contact Us

Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
1225 Kincaid Street
1212-University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1212 USA

Phone: +1-541-346-3547
Fax: +1-541-346-4397
nsrc@nsrc.org

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Recent Activity

WirelessU Workshop, "Wireless Internet - Emergency Networks"

The NSRC is supported the WirelessU Workshop, "Wireless Internet - Emergency Networks", that took place at the Asian Institute of Technology's intERLab facility in Bangkok, Thailand from 12-16 October, 2009. The workshop was co-organized by RISTEK-Indonesia, AIT and NECTEC, with the support of ISOC, NSRC and NetworkTheWorld.org in order to provide participants hands-on experience with WiMAX technologies and deploying mobile wireless network on an ad hoc basis for emergency conditions, such as after a natural disaster when a fixed network infrastructure is not available or has been destroyed.

Students gain hands-on experience with WiMAX and WiFi with Dr. Onno W. Purbo at the Asian Institute of Technology and intERLab

WALC 2009

The Network Startup Resource Center taught, helped organize, and sent books and equipment to help support the WALC 2009 event held in Bogotá, Colombia at the Pontifica Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá from September 21-25, 2009. NSRC instructors taught in the Advanced Routing and Network Management tracks. Additional support for WALC 2009 was provided by LACNIC, ISOC, O'Reilly Media, Inc., Cisco Press, Colnodo and many other sponsors listed here.

Group Photo from the WALC 2009 Event held in Bogotá, Colombia from 21-25 September, 2009

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