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While awaiting the fourth session of Redollaboration Community Webinars, researchers and those interested in the topic can now review the content of the first three meetings, which are now available on the RedCLARA website and YouTube channel.

The video recording of the "Computer resources to fight the pandemic: do's and don'ts" Webinar, carried out on April 23 by a collaboration of TACC, BSC and COPPE / UFRJ, from Brazil, with the support of RedCLARA, is already available on YouTube. At the meeting, different experiences of using computer resources in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic were presented and discussed to understand what are the best practices.

In view of the growing demand for services for the provision of reserved instances, once again RedCLARA supports its member national academic networks and, through them, the higher education institutions in the region, through agreements that allow the provision of these instances of Microsoft Azure using the CSP Store platform. Offered by Nexsys, this platform allows the user to add, modify and cancel subscriptions, automatically, in reserved instances of Azure through web services in real time; all this with the support of a qualified and constantly evolving team.

Aiming to offer resources for the educational community to face the challenges of the virtualization process accelerated by the pandemic, the national research and education networks (NRENs) of Mexico (CUDI), Ecuador (CEDIA) and Colombia (RENATA), in alliance with RedCLARA, make available to the public the recordings of the "COVID-19: Technological Innovation in education in times of crisis" Webinar, which took place in two sessions, on April 22 and 24, 2020.

In an extra effort, the organization of the events has decided that those papers that will be selected to be presented at the Conference - which will take place on-line from August 31 to September 3 - will be rated by the audience, and the five best evaluated will receive tickets, stays and registration to participate in the Internet2 Summit of 2021 as an award. Participate with your paper until May 25 at 24:00 GMT and invite members of your academic community to register for the event, registration is free and mandatory to ensure your participation.

The Memorandum of Understanding, dated on April 24, 2020, and an extendable extension of five years, has the central objective of promoting collaboration in activities and initiatives to strengthen capacities in science, technology and innovation within the Latin American region.