Mission and Vision
CARNet's mission is to "provide the infrastructure, knowledge and the necessary resources to individuals and organizations that wish to build Croatia as an information society. Improvement of higher education and science as well as of the work and lives of students, associates, lecturers and scientists by applying the information and communication technology, getting to know its capabilities and assisting in its implementation.
Stimulating information and communication technology implementation, and especially providing support to knowledge dissemination and information exchange as well as the development of contents available through the network.
Co-operation with international organizations and linking with the academic and research networks, establishing and maintaining of central national services for the Internet.
Although CARNet activities are significant for the whole region of the Republic of Croatia, these are primarily targeted at the academic and research community. The role of the academic and research community in every society, including also the Croatian society, is to design, introduce and implement new technologies. This is the reason why the best and the latest information technology and infrastructure have to be made available first and foremost to the academic and research community.
Croatia in the society of knowledge.
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