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Dear Latin American Research and Education Community, given the uncertain scenario imposed on us by the Coronavirus pandemic, and with the objective of protecting our entire community, considering that the pandemic could be extended until the third trimester of this year, RedCLARA, its members and the Organizing and Programme Committees of TICAL2020 made the decision to hold the tenth edition of the conference in virtual format (keeping the date: August 31 to September 2).

The Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Postgraduate and Research of Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE-UFRJ), and the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), both from Brazil, join forces with SCALAC and make available to researchers and scientists, free of charge, the data processing capabilities of their supercomputers for research in search of the solution to the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).

In recognition of the growing, innovative collaboration between Mexico’s research and education network, the Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (CUDI), and CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN), CUDI and the individual who has led CUDI since its inception, Carlos Casasús, were awarded the CENIC 2020 Innovations in Networking Award for R&E Network Partner.

In order to contribute to the search for a cure for the Coronavirus, the National Research and Education Networks in Latin America, united through RedCLARA, and in partnership with SCALAC (Advanced Computing System for Latin America and the Caribbean), made available to researchers and scientists data processing capacity for research projects for free as a way of finding solutions to the pandemic.

Free access to the “Mathematica Online” tool will last until August 15, 2020. Wolfram's goal is “to collaborate with academic continuity and academic research, which are fundamental to face together this difficult global challenge”.

The alliance with Cisco is part of the initiative established by the Latin American academic networks, united in RedCLARA, to contribute to the search for the cure of COVID-19 and to enhance remote work and study. Cisco WebEx Meetings licenses will be offered for a period of 90 days to the aforementioned institutions and include the WebEx Meetings, WebEx Teams and Control Hub programs. Up to one thousand licenses will be distributed so that users can manage (create, invite and record) sessions for each institution.