The MAGIC Project
(Middleware for collaborative Applications and Global Virtual Communities)
sought to establish a set of agreements for Europe, Latin America and other
participating World Regions, aimed at consolidating and completing the
building blocks of middleware necessary for the establishment of a marketplace
of services and real-time applications for international and inter-continental
research groups which facilitated mobility and the work of global science
communities.
Specific Objectives:
To foster the
deployment of the platforms that enable mobility of people and seamless access
to services by promoting the establishment of identity federations
interconnected via eduGAIN, creating awareness of privacy and security issues
and spreading eduroam by sharing experiences, carrying out training and making
available shared infrastructure to ease the process in the partner world
regions.
- To develop a model for
inter-operation between NREN cloud application markets of participating world
regions, based on cloud provisioning and taking advantage of applications
developed and run by NRENs across different continents to create a model for a worldwide
application market for collaboration tools and services
- To seek consensus
among participating world regions on the importance of interoperability of
real-time applications and work towards the adoption of standards such as those
proposed by the Global CEO Forum to promote the creation of a worldwide
environment for these applications.
- To foster the
collaborative work of Global Science Communities by actively promoting the
participation of Latin American and other regions’ researchers in European
Commission Calls and those of other international funding agencies with high
impact in the participating regions and other networking activities.
This project intended to build on existing European, Latin American and worldwide initiatives such as
eduroam, eduGAIN, the RedCLARA Portal, the ELCIRA service prototype,
OpenConext, the GÉANT Service Activities and the Global CEO Forum’s working
groups on Real Time Collaboration (GRTC) and Global Services Delivery (GSD), as
well as regional initiatives such as ASREN (Arab States), CAREN (Central Asia),
CKLN (Caribbean), TEIN (Asia-Pacific), the UbuntuNet Alliance (Southern and
Eastern Africa) and WACREN (West and Central Africa). The coordination with all
these initiatives in the deployment of the mobility infrastructure as well as
the agreements on how to share applications and services was the main strategy
behind this project.
