Project "OCCASION"

According to the Virtual Silk Highway Project the another project called "OCCASION (Organising Caucasus and Central Asian Internet Offerings to NRENs)" was proposed and realized. This project is directed to advance collaborations and exchange the information between scientists taking part in the Virtual Silk Highway Project.
For reaching the objects of the project organized multimedia conferencing and Voice/IP technologies.
The role of user groups can be played by every scientific and educational organizations. Four organizations showed the interests in this project:

     Institute of New Information Technologies, Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and
        Architecture

     International University of Kyrgyzstan;

     Institute of seismology, National Academy of Science;

     Institute of Water Problems and Hydropower under the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz
        Republic.

The begining of videoconferences is planned for the autumn of 2006.