Cases & Voices

Following a previous article on the management of cybersecurity incidents for the academic community in Ecuador and Chile, it is interesting to also talk about Yari, the system that to some extent enabled and promoted this work and collaboration.

The National Academic Network of Advanced Technology of Colombia, RENATA, provided the collaboration tools and the technical support in the implementation of the 2020 International Image Festival organized by the University of Caldas.

Make free internet available to students in situations of socioeconomic vulnerability enrolled in institutions of the federal network throughout the country. This is the goal of the “Connected Students” Project of the Ministry of Education of Brazil (MEC), which began to be implemented by the Brazilian advanced network, RNP, in October. With the action, in this pandemic scenario, it will be possible to resume academic activities remotely this year and these students will be able to access the educational content offered by the institutions where they study. More than that: the project contributes to democratizing access to education, promoting digital inclusion and reducing inequalities in access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), especially in areas further away from large centers.

João Nuno Ferreira - General Coordinator of the Portuguese NREN, the FCCN Unit of FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology - visited the Sines station, designed to accommodate the EllaLink submarine cable, and revealed some details about this structure.

Today, the Internet Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean (LACNIC) presented its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Rafael “Lito” Ibarra for his contribution to Internet development and deployment in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In the context of universities, the digital route, through the transformation of ICT services, aims to convert traditional universities into intelligent digital universities, obtaining improvements and satisfaction for the different types of users that make up the University in these times of the digital age, in such a way that significant resources are contributed to training and education.