At the end of October, a Distributed Acoustic Detection (DAS) interrogator was installed at the EMACOM Cable Landing Station in Praia Formosa, in Madeira Island, Portugal.
The international project is driven by HEAnet, Ireland's national research and education network, and aims to make eduroam available beyond university campuses, in as many places as possible.
Interview with Félix Fernández-Shaw, Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships
The Chilean Academic Network's Point of Presence will directly connect the numerous astronomical projects that will be installed on the Chajnantor plain in the Atacama Desert, in order to transmit the data generated by them via the global networks for research and development.
With the goal of recruiting at least 30,000 students, RNP – the national research and education network (NREN) of Brazil – and partners have introduced an ambitious cyber-security initiative. The program “Hackers do Bem” – Hackers of good or, if you will, white hat hackers – addresses a significant deficit of professionals in cybersecurity. According to RNP estimates, more than 300,000 vacancies cannot be filled due to lack of manpower.
An Internet pioneer in his country and director of the Guatemalan Advanced Network for Research and Education (RAGIE), Luis Furlán talks about the creation of the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks (RedCLARA), the main contributions it has made to Latin America and the Caribbean, and what he sees as the “misión” for the next generations of regional advanced networks: to increase scientific production and thus reduce the gaps in education and research in the region.
