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Martha Avila is in charge of the space created by CUDI to facilitate its communities work, she worked together with RedCLARA’s software engineering team in order of bring VC Espresso to CUDI’s platform. In this interview we talk with Martha about this experience.

Check out the voice of the Executive Director of the Peruvian Academic Network, RAAP, and his vision about RedCLARA and collaboration. Read this and other interviews in the book “RedCLARA: Name, voice and instrument of collaboration in Latin America”.

“I would like to see more collaboration between users in the Mediterranean and Latin American regions - EUMEDCONNECT2 and ALICE2 are great programmes for encouraging this. Also, I have always been impressed by how CLARA has become self governing and I would welcome greater co-operation between Latin America and the Mediterranean partners, who are keen in moving in this direction too and look at CLARA as a role model.”

“It is ver y impor tant to carr y out the reconnection to RedCLARA, because participating and collaborating through the internet is ver y difficult because of the low bandwidths available in Nicaragua’s state universities, for example. Fur thermore, the problem is not only the low bandwidth, but also the cost it has.”