In the meeting of its Board of Directors, held on October 25 and 26 in Santiago, Chile, LA Referencia elected Bianca Amaro, General Coordinator of Research and Maintenance of Consolidated Products of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), as its new president for a two-year term.
On Wednesday, October 24, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Council of LA Referencia and CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) to facilitate the use of the Zenodo repository for Latin American researchers and institutions.
Those interested in submitting papers for TNC19 can now submit their proposals. The call for papers of the annual conference of the pan-European advanced network, GÉANT, which will be held between June 16 and 20, 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia, is open from October 10 to November 30
Angola Cables announced this October the start of the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) operation, the first submarine cable in the Southern Hemisphere to connect Africa to South America. It is extended between Fortaleza (Brazil) and Luanda (Angola) and has a transmission capacity of 40 Tb/s, offering lower latency between the two continents. According to Angola Cables, the cable, which cost approximately 130 million dollars, aims to reduce traffic costs for the African continent and attract regional internet providers, large operators, multinational companies and research networks.
The new link that goes from Miami to Panama City and from there to Santiago, was made in collaboration with AmLight and completes the 100 Gbps ring that closes with the link that goes from Santiago to Sao Paulo and from there to Miami. Thus, the collaboration with the American AmLight project enables RedCLARA to substantially improve the capacity of its network.
The Pan American Health Organization will be awarding grants to project implementation proposals to improve Information Systems for Health (IS4H) in the Americas. The call for applications will be open until November 15 and it is driven to public institutions at National or Subnational levels from countries of the Americas region.
