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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.

The National Academic Network of Advanced Technology of Colombia (RENATA) and Colombia Telecomunicaciones S.A. signed an agreement to renegotiate the IRU contract, which has been in operation since 2015, in order to generate new service models, expand coverage, provide high-capacity connectivity throughout the national territory, maintaining the autonomy to generate alliances with other suppliers.

The National Center for Health Information Systems of Chile (CENS), an ally organization of the Chilean advanced network, REUNA, invites the medical and scientific community of the region and the world to be part of Huemul, the first Chilean educational platform, created for the community of developers in Digital Health, with the aim of promoting the teaching and learning of the health information exchange standard, HL7 FHIR.

The five interns who completed the process oversaw the deployment, configuration, testing and integration of computational computing systems (Jupyter notebooks), user interface (Django), version control (gitlab) and SAML 2.0 federated authentication.
The state-of-the-art fiber optic cable that connects Portugal and Latin America has already arrived in Sines.
The system should be fully operational in the second quarter of 2021, making Portugal the new gateway to Europe to an unprecedented level of international connectivity.

Participation period is extended until January 25, 2021! Why should you participate? The pandemic took us to implement new ways of working and collaborating. Specifically, in the context of the Latin American Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), this change posed major challenges for the information and communication technology departments. In order to know these challenges and the solutions implemented in each case, we invite you to participate in the 3rd Study of “Governance Maturity of Information and Communication Technologies in Higher Education Institutions in Latin America”.