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Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands will share its experience in raising awareness of the importance of cybersecurity among its staff at the third and final session of the series of meetings promoted by GÉANT as part of the "Cybersecurity Month 2023: Become a cyberhero" campaign.

A pilot project for the digital issuance of verifiable credentials applied to digital diplomas created jointly by experts from the advanced networks CUDI (Mexico), RENATA (Colombia), REUNA (Chile) and CEDIA (Ecuador), with the support of RedCLARA, was one of the initiatives presented at the first Symposium of the Ibero-American Network of Blockchain and Cybersecurity - RIBCI, which was held on October 5 and 6, in hybrid format, with the face-to-face activities developed in the premises of the Technological University of Panama.

More than 100 students from Latin America registered, representing 8 countries, 30 universities, and more than 20 of knowledge, resulting from the calls of the second edition of the Co-Afina Hackathon, which will be held remotely from October 20 to 22.

Online privacy, phishing, social engineering, ransomware, and the importance of reporting cyber incidents are the main topics of the “Become a Cyber Hero” campaign being promoted for another year by the European advanced network GÉANT.

French-Costa Rican Guy de Téramond Peralta was one of the 2023 inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame. De Téramond is the former Costa Rican Minister of Science and Technology, a post in which he led the Advanced Internet Network project to bring broadband connectivity to the entire country.

The European Commission is calling for expressions of interest for the selection of members of the "Global Gateway Civil Society (CSOs) and Local Authorities (LA) Dialogue Platform", sectors that play a key role in ensuring an inclusive and value-based approach to the implementation of this strategy. The Platform will be set up as a working group of the European Union (EU) Policy Forum on Development.