MAGIC

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MAGIC - Middleware for collaborative Applications and Global vIrtual Communities

Start: May 1, 2015

End: April 30, 2017

Funding: EC – Horizon 2020

Website: http://magic.redclara.net/

General objective

To establish a set of agreements for participating world regions to consolidate/complete middleware for a marketplace of services and real-time applications to benefit global science communities.

Participants

  • RedCLARA (Latin America) - Coordinator
  • GÉANT (Europe)
  • RENATA (Colombia)
  • RNP (Brazil)
  • SURFnet (Netherlands)
  • REUNA (Chile)
  • CEDIA (Ecuador)
  • CUDI (Mexico)
  • RENATER (France)
  • GRNET (Greece)
  • CESNET (Czech Republic)
  • CKLN (Caribbean)
  • UbuntuNet Alliance (S&E Africa)
  • WACREN (W&C Africa)
  • ASREN (Arab States)
  • TEIN*CC (Asia-Pacic)
  • CAREN NOC – NITC (Central Asia)
  • NIIFI (Hungary)
  • CSIR (South Africa)

Objectives

  • To enable mobility and seamless access to services by:
    • promoting the establishment of identity federations connected to eduGAIN,
    • creating awareness of privacy and security issues, and
    • increasing uptake of eduroam.
  • To enable the provision of collaboration tools and services among NRENs based on NREN-run applications made available via a worldwide application market.
  • To seek consensus on interoperability of real-time applications and work towards the adoption of standards such as those proposed by the Global CEO Forum.
  • To foster the collaborative work of Global Science Communities by actively promoting the participation researchers in European Commission Calls, etc.

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