Sponsors in the UzSciNet project UNDP NATO

Sponsors in the UzSciNet project

From the very beginning of its existing the UzSciNet network gains financial support from non-governmental, non-profit organizations. Without such support the network is not likely to be built, and all the projects would not have been put into practice.

It is only thanks to our sponsors we have become what we are � dependable information technology support for more than 300 scientific and educational organizations of Uzbekistan. The first sponsor was the Scientific Committee of NATO providing the grant for building the UzSciNet control center in 1977.

In 1988, the grant given by the Open Society Institute afforded us an opportunity of expanding the network, increasing the number of modem pools and connecting to the system Zaknet. Due to supporting the OSIAF and the Scientific Committee of NATO, the UzSciNet had numbered over a hundred users by the end of 1998.

In 1999, the Scientific Committee of NATO provided a new grant allowing a further expanding the network. At the same period the OSIAF took another program for supporting Uzbekistan and decided on the UzSciNet as the basic network in Uzbekistan. In autumn of 1999 the United Nations Development Program and the OSIAF made decision on realization of the joint project "Capacity Building for Internet Technologies Development and Promotion in Uzbekistan" designed to develop Internet in the country, with main accent being made on building the network for science and education. In February,2000, this project was signed and the network gained its advancement.