Cases & Voices
Cape Verde is an archipelago of ten islands on the west coast of Africa with around 500,000 inhabitants. The country is on the route of the ELLALink submarine cable, the first to directly connect South America to Europe via the Atlantic Ocean. However, it was not possible for it to have access to this connectivity because it did not have its own academic network. This meant that Cape Verde did not qualify to make use of fiber pairs from the BELLA Project (Building the Europe Link to Latin America), for collaboration between the two regions.
María José López Pourailly
Through the Case Study - LiMoNet (Lightning Monitoring Network), learn how MiLab, the platform as a service deployed to support data management, the preservation of digital history and the collaborative work of research groups associated with RedCLARA supports the LiMoNet data preservation challenge.
Brazil is now the country with the largest eduroam network in the world. There are 3,000 access points spread throughout its national territory, connecting members of the academic community from 177 Brazilian institutions that use the service with secure Wi-Fi, including universities, professional and technological education institutes, research centers and university hospitals. The service, which is also present in around 100 other countries, is managed and operated in Brazil by the National Education and Research Network (RNP), member of RedCLARA.
Students of socioeconomic vulnerability in Brazil will be provided internet access, while many other students will have their existing connections upgraded.
The pan-European academic network GÉANT has prepared a series of videos highlighting the role of women in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics around the world. The material has been prepared in celebration of Women's Month and counts with the participation of Latin American representatives.