New Use Policy is approved and institutes the RNP System

- 04/09/2019

On June 24, the RNP Management Committee approved the organization's new Use Policy, which strengthens the value of the teaching, research and innovation communities in the country for maintaining the RNP System. The main change is in the reformulation of the Inter-department Program that maintains the organization and is renamed to Programa Interministerial RNP (Pro-RNP).

According to the Portaria Interministerial 3.865 [Interministerial Ordinance 3,865] (12.12.2018), RNP is responsible for developing and maintaining the RNP System. The new Use Policy defines the concept as the “national cyber infrastructure that offers national and local transit and facilities that integrate people and institutions for the production of knowledge, applications and critical skills for Brazil.”

These features include remote collaboration through high quality video; massive processing of high performance data and information with cloud computing; management of data collections, memorial collections and digital objects as scientific bases; and sharing devices and distributed software for accelerators, movie theaters, among others.

The document establishes as this System components the national academic network - Ipê Network, its Points of Presence (PoP) and Aggregation Points (PoA) in the Federation Units; Redes Metropolitanas Comunitárias (Redecomep), based on associative models; public and private User organizations; and community collaboration networks, such as the Rede Universitária de Telemedicina (Rute), the University Cinemas network, among others.

Also, the following may apply as RNP System users: higher education and research institutions; research funding agencies; health facilities with teaching and research; innovative companies; innovation-promoting environments (technology parks); and museums and cultural institutes.

The Programa Interministerial RNP (Pro-RNP) is coordinated by two Brazilian departments – Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC) and Education (MEC) – alternately for a two-year period, assisted by the Managing Committee (CG-RNP) and executed by RNP.

The Management Committee (CG-RNP) is made up of representatives of the departments that make up the Pro-RNP. In addition to the MCTIC and MEC, the Brazilian Departments of Health (MS), Citizenship and Defense (MD), as well as the National Council of Secretaries for Science, Technology and Innovation Affairs (Consecti).

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