CARNet
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| Founder | Government of the Republic of Croatia |
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| Headquarters | Josipa Marohnića 5, 10000 Zagreb |
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Number of locations
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6 (Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Osijek, Rijeka, Pula) |
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Number of employees
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97 (2011) |
| Website | http://www.dns.hr/ |
CARNet (Croatian Academic and Research Network, Croatian: Hrvatska akademska i istraživačka mreža) is the national research and education network of Croatia. It is funded from the government budget and it operates from offices in Zagreb and five other cities.
CARNet was established in 1991 as a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. In March 1995 the Government of the Republic of Croatia passed the Decree on founding of the CARNet institution with the purpose of facilitating progress of individuals, as well as of the society as a whole, through the use of new information technologies.
CARNet's activities can be divided in three basic areas: Internet service provision, encouragement of information society development and education for the new era.
Contributing to the development of a digitally mature society.
Comprehensive informatisation of the education and science system in the Republic of Croatia by:
Responsibility, proactivity, purposefulness, completeness, openness.
A body responsible for coordinating the establishment of the Croatian educational computer network has been established on 3 October 1991. That was the beginning of the work of the Croatian Academic and Research Network - CARNet, the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Croatia. In the several years that followed CARNet was the only Internet service provider in Croatia, providing the service free of charge, not only to the academic community, but to all citizens of the Republic of Croatia as well.
In November 1992 the first international communication connection was established, which connected CARNet Internet exchange point in Zagreb to Austria. By that act Croatia became a part of the world computer network – the Internet.
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