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The European program's new data center will work in synergy with its Chilean counterpart, promoting scientific and digital cooperation, private sector development and business opportunities in the region.

The regional Technical Community organizations coordinated a meeting with the eLAC-ECLAC Working Groups on December 12 and 13 at Casa de Internet for Latin America and the Caribbean. The event in Montevideo, Uruguay brought together representatives from LACNIC, ICANN, the Internet Society, RedClara and LACTLD with government, private sector and academia stakeholders that are currently members of the eLAC-ECLAC Working Groups on digital economy and meaningful connectivity.

The initiative, which involves nine organizations from Europe and Latin America, is funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Program and began its activities in December of this year.

The Co-Afina 2023 hackathon was promoted by the organizing alliance of the LA-CoNGA physics project with Creative Commons Venezuela, RedClara and the Academic Network of Ecuador (CEDIA), and sponsored by the ICTP Institute and its Physics Without Frontiers (PWF) program, the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) and the artificial intelligence company INAIT SA.

Are you interested in finding out which ransomware attacked academia, which library suffered a major outage due to a cyber attack, or you might be wondering if any universities were fined due to cyber issues this past month? You will find the answers to these questions – and more – in GÉANT monthly academic cyber newsletter.

The project proposes a catalogue of essential skills that all internet users should have in order to be safe in cyberspace, as well as a tool to measure them.