The event enjoyed the participation of Mr Nigel HICKSON, vice-president of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – ICANN for Europe, and Mr. Paul-Andre BARAN, Digital Champion for Romania.Also, Mr Peter RASTL – former Director of Vienna University Computer Centre – ACONET in 1992, talked about the first Internet connection between ICI Bucharest and the University of Vienna.

IINTERNET and .ro Domains represented an important event for the IT&C community in Romania. It should be mentioned the attendance of representatives from civil and professional associations – Gheorghe ŞERBAN, Executive Director of Romanian ISP National Association, Eduard TRIC, President of Romanian ISOC, Bogdan MANOLEA, Executive Director of Romanian Association for Technology and Internet (ApTI), and also representatives of the business environment (Siveco, Oracle Romania, HP Romania, Omnilogic, etc.). The event also enjoyed the attendance of a numerous audience, prominent members of academia and research community, such as Prof. Nicolae ŢĂPUŞ – pro-rector of “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, former rectors of higher education institutions: Prof. Ioan DUMITRACHE (“Politehnica” University of Bucharest), Prof. Ioan PÂNZARU (University of Bucharest), and representatives of other national universities and university libraries. The Rectorate of University of Piteşti, the first university in Romania connected to ICI over the Internet, had an anniversary message on this occasion. Also, the Municipality of Piteşti, sent a message and awarded ICI Bucharest the Diploma of Excellence.

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On November 17 and 18, in Poznan, Poland, took place the 6th European Ministeral Conference on e-Government - "Borderless eGovernment Services for Europeans". There were invited specialists from the European Union, the United States of America, Asia and also UNESCO experts. Romania was represented by Prof. Doina Banciu PhD, General Director of the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics - ICI Bucharest, invited by the European Commission to give a lecture.

The presentation was held during "Impact of Future Internet on eGovernment Services" session, conducted by Mr Paul TIMMERS, Director of "IT&C and Societal Challenges" Directorate of the European Commission. Entitled "e-Services in Future Internet - Study-case on Romania" the lecture presented briefly the development of Internet in Romania and the main on-line services offered by the central public administration. It highlighted both the positive aspects and the obstacles in the implementation of the e-Government procedures, underlining the impact that Future Internet has to make on the development and quality of services offered by public adiminstration bodies.

The presentation also stressed the major role that ICI Bucharest played in the development of .ro domains and the need for research - innovation projects for the sustenability of e-Government procedures. The presentations attracted great interest, many participants in the audience asking questions and requesting information on the subjects.

The National Institiute for Research and Development in Informatics - ICI Bucharest organised and hosted on the 10th of November, 2011, in the "Mihai the Drăgănescu" Hall, the "National Software Library in view of i2020 Digital Agenda" Workshop.
The discussions were attended by software producers and users, IT researchers and representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Information Society.

• strategic promotion:
  • free registration in the National Software Library for a longer period of time;
  • monthly publication of articles in dedicated journals with reviews of new products registered in the National Software Library;
  • publication of a short presentation of BNP in English.
• promotion in the academia and throughout the country;
• promotion of the BNP web site;
• initiation of a workgroup that would meet periodicaly and discuss aspects regarding improvement of BNP services;
• supporting a legislative initiative meant to determin software companies that have ongoing contracts with the public administration bodies to register their products in the BNP database.

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"The Research activity nor dies, nor surrenders

ICI Bucharest, model and hope for romanian research

Nowadays, when other institutions in Romania are letting people off and limit their activities, still there are exceptions. One of them, and, if not the sole one, than surely the most significant one, is the National Institute for Research and Development - ICI Bucharest. This exception is even more important because it cames from a neglected area of research, an area that 20 years ago Romanians were extremely proud of."

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"In 1993, Romania made its first connection to the Internet. In the same year the ".ro" domain is recognised internationally. Twenty years ago, in August 1991, the first Internet page and the World Wide Web (www) were born. Romania needed two years to connect to the network.

Naturally, in the beginning there was the computer. Although today it seems hard to believe, Romania was among the first ten countries in the world that started to manufacture computers nationally. As soon as 1953, at the Institute for Atomic Physics, Prof. Victor Toma designes the computer with vacuum tubes. After 11 years of hard work, in 1964, the first Romanian made computer, with germanium transistors, comes to life. At that moment, all over the world, there were only a few countries that have reached that level of performance: USA, Japan, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom, Nederland, France, Soviet Union, Italy and Denmark.

Subsequently, on July 15, 1970, it was founded the Central Institute for Informatics - called nowadays the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI) - an institution that took the first steps in the field of computer networks and the first entity in Romania to be connected to the Internet."

The Research Centre for Digital Information from Bucharest - DIGINFO - together with ”Ion Barbu” Library of Câmpulung Muscel, with support form Câmpulung Town Hall, have organised the Workshop “Library in Support of Education and Culture” that took place under the second edition of “SLOVE” Book Fair, between 18-22 of July 2011. Moderated by Prof. Doina Banciu PhD the workshop brought into attention the role of digital information and of virtual libraries in training and educating the public.

The event was attended by Directors of County and University Libraries from “Carol I” Central Library - University of Bucharest - “Dinicu Golescu” Argeş County Library, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, ”Valahia” University of Târgovişte, University of Piteşti, as well as numerous representatives of education and cultural intitutions. The debate was also welcomed by the Mayor of Câmpulung and members of the Town Council interested in the educational and cultural development of the community.

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ICI Bucharest organised on May 16 the workshop on ”THE ROLE OF IT&C RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN PROMOTING A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY”. The event, under high patronage from the Ministry of Communication and Information Society and moderated by Prof. Doina Banciu PhD - General Director of ICI Bucureşti, was attended as special guests by Mr. Valerian VREME - Minister for Communications and Information Society and Mr. Florin Lupescu – Principal Advisor of the European Commission's General Directorate for Information Society – DGINFSO.

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On the November 5, 2010 at the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics - I.C.I. Bucharest, it was held the Meeting of the RoGRID - NGI Consortium, that established new directions for consolidation of the GRID strategy on national level. At this meeting have participated representatives from major national universities (members of the consortium), such as: West University of Timişoara, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, University of Piteşti, Bucharest University, as well as National Institute for Aerospace Research (represented by ing. Cătălin Nae, Ph.D. General Director). There was also present Mr. Ionuţ Gogu, adviser of the Minister Communication and Information Society.

The National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics - ICI Bucharest organised on October 4th, 2010, the celebration of 40 years of activity; the event was held at the Romanian Academy Library, Ion Heliade Radulescu Hall.

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