Agreement between CAAN and NREN to launch eduroam at TIA

KATHMANDU, April 27:The EDUROM service is  set to starts from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport. A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) and the Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN). Following the signing, everyone will be able to access the eduroam network at the airport.

It has a global network of world-class educational institutions and research organizations. Each country establishes a distinct company to join to the network. In Nepal, the organization is known as the NREN.

EDUROM is a distinct Internet-like network that connects the world's educational institutions and research agencies. This edurom, which is primarily used for teaching, research, and professional purposes, has little risk of infecting your computer viruses.

With unlimited access to the world's most powerful supercomputers, teaching and research do not require their own large servers. If you have the Edurom service installed on your mobile device or computer, you can connect to any airport, university, or research facility in the globe without having to login.

NREN has been offering free EDUROM services to all Nepalese educational and research institutes. Even though NREN has been providing this service for many years, many institutions are unaware of it due to Nepal's low priority for research and its continued use of conventional teaching methods.

When the country was hit by the pandemic of covid, making it impossible to hold classes in person, interest in this network grew when NREN began offering online classes to educational institutions via Zoom.

Following this, the network's membership grew rapidly. NREN continues to provide services long after the consequences of the covid pandemic have passed.

The number of NREN members has recently expanded, but due to ignorance, the majority of the country's educational institutions and research bodies are still unable to use the services available through this network.

NREN is registered as a non-profit organization. In many other nations, such organizations are run by the government or national universities. Individual and business NREN members have access to all of the network's facilities.

Many Nepalese government, research, and teaching institutes are currently linked with NREN. NREN provides its members with the ability to run online programs using Zoom, free internet access through professional networks using Edurom, access to research articles published in prestigious professional journals, affiliation with international teaching and research bodies, financial and technical collaboration with those bodies, and the opportunity to use their research infrastructures. It also provides a common platform for Nepalese institutions to expose their academic