LACNIC and APNIC, the Internet address registry for the Asia Pacific region, are inviting proposals by external consultants to conduct a study on the Internet's technical success factors.
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- María José López Pourailly
Francesc Pedró: The Director of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean has been confirmed as the first panelist of TICAL2021
Given the pandemic, TICAL2021 and the 5th Latin American e-Science Meeting will be held, for the second consecutive year, on-line. To be held between August 30 and September 2, 2021, and with their calls for papers open, the events that bring together the ICT leaders of Latin American universities and researchers who use technology intensively for their daily work, confirmed their first international panelist: the leader of IESALC. Check out his biography here.
- María José López Pourailly
Discover IDRC's 2030 Strategy for a more sustainable and inclusive world
The new strategy of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) - Canada-based institution - reaffirms its commitment to invest in high quality research and innovation, expanding its focus on sharing knowledge and continuing to mobilize global alliances to support more sustainable and inclusive societies in the developing world, facing the problems of global climate change and persistent inequalities that today are especially aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The TICAL Conference and the Latin American e-Science Meeting announced during February 10th, the opening of their calls for papers, inviting ICT directors, academics and researchers from Latin American universities to present their research efforts that express the development of initiatives that are contributing to the theme chosen for this edition of the events that will be held between August 30 and September 2, 2021, in virtual and free of charge format.
In 2021 South America will be able to count for the first time on a latest generation submarine communication cable system directly connected to Europe. On December 14th, 2020, EllaLink, owner of the submarine cable of the same name, and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), responsible for the manufacture and deployment of the cable system, carried out the anchorage of the EllaLink cable at the Beach of the Future in Fortaleza, capital of the Brazilian state of Ceará. The connection between Fortaleza and Sines in Portugal, a distance of around 6000 km, is expected to be completed in January, 2021, and the resulting cable is expected to be ready for service (RFS) in the second quarter of 2021.
LACNIC announces that registration to participate in the ninth edition of the IPv6 Challenge, a competition designed to promote the use of this protocol in Latin America and the Caribbean, is now open.
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