Speaker
Description of the work
In order for EGI to become sustainable, it is essential that also the national grid infrastructures (NGIs) achieve sustainability. The aim of this session is to continue the discussion on this matter by addressing key sustainability issues such as costs, cost models, service portfolio, business model and service management structures. The session will open with a presentation on a checklist for sustainable NGIs that will help to stimulate discussion and sharing of best practices or approaches across NGIs. Further presentations will develop some specific aspect and through a final panel discussions, key results will be identified and agreed together with future actions. Presentations and discussions build on the three key EGI-InSPIRE deliverables (EGI2020 Strategy, Evolving the EGI Business Model, and EGI Sustainability Plan) and on the results and support from collaborating projects (e-FISCAL, gSLM, FedSM).
Link for further information
https://documents.egi.eu/document/1040; https://documents.egi.eu/document/960; https://documents.egi.eu/document/1147
Printable Summary
This session aims at guiding NGIs to analyse the key issues that need to be faced to become sustainable: costs, cost models, service portfolio, business models and service management structures. The evolution of the European Grid from a project-based structure to a network of organisations with a common strategy to provide federated services is a major step forward for long-term sustainability of the EGI community. In this context, each national infrastructure needs to develop or consolidate its own business model and service management structures to achieve sustainability. This dedicated session is designed to better understand the development and progress of the sustainability plans and strategies coming from the national infrastructures, therefore participation from these representatives is essential.
Wider impact of this work
The final goal for the community is that by the end of EGI-InSPIRE, the implementation of the initial phases of the EGI2020 strategy will have established an open ecosystem where individual actors supported through public and/or private funding have been able to define their own added value and business models to support their activities sustainably. This foundation will enable EGI to continue to play a key role in bringing the digital European Research Area online.
