Cases & Voices

With the aim of “decongesting” the health centres in its region and providing professional guidance to the community, the University of Concepción, in Chile, through its Faculty of Medicine and its Telemedicine Unit, launched the website https://coronavirus.udec.cl

The battle against the Coronavirus pandemic in El Salvador has in its front line two very important allies: the country's national research and education network (NREN), RAICES, and the Francisco Gavidia University (UFG), which, with the support and broadband offered by the advanced network, developed some actions to strengthen the fight against COVID-19.

(By: Marco Antonio To) The digital route is understood as the steps that a university takes to be able to reach a complete transformation in its Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services, for the benefit and improvement of all the users that make up the contemporary university. This allows us to be better prepared for fast changes foster by new generations or, as has happened in 2020, due to extreme emergencies.

The National Academic Network of Advanced Technology of Colombia, RENATA, provided the collaboration tools, as well as the support and technical follow up that allowed the evaluation of the proposals of the Mincienciatón in its country. The initiative led by the country's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, managed to mobilize the presentation of 531 proposals of which 401 were filed, all aimed at providing forceful solutions to deal with the coronavirus and presented by researchers, innovators, scientists and academics.

(By: Ernesto Chinkes) I believe that traveling this route is today an obligation for all higher education institutions. Luckily, the end of the road is not fixed, and each university will be able to decide where it wants to go, and how and where it should travel.

The suspension of classes, as a result of the health emergency, forced Chilean universities to accelerate their digitization processes and the incorporation of videoconferencing platforms, to ease administrative meetings and online classes for their communities.