Seeking for the establishment of agreements for real time collaboration, the Work Package 4 of the MAGIC Project achieved a new milestone with the incorporation of the Salvadorian NREN, RAICES, to NRENum.net. The country code +503 is now officially delegated to RAICES.
Within the framework of the tasks developed by its Work Package 4 -which is in charge of the establishment for agreements for real time collaboration- the MAGIC Project has launch an on-line course on NRENum.net and DNS Configuration. With its contents fully developed both in English, French and Spanish, the course is opened to all those who are interested in NRENum, and mainly targeted to those NRENs that want to offer their member institutions the possibility of registering their equipments of videoconference and of voice over Ip in this global directory.
In order to collect information that allows to identify the state of advancement of the incorporation of identity federation services and the provision of services under a federation structure in Latin American universities, the TICAL community by means of RedCLARA will carry out an online study targeted to ICT leaders of the higher education and research institutions of Latin America.
Rafael Ibarra, one of the founders of RedCLARA and leader of the Salvadorian NREN, RAICES, was selected as one of the members of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors.
The event is a high-level visit to take place from October 26 to 30, 2015, in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina. The call for papers ends this Tuesday, September 29.
In October, the Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP) promotes the Security Month, aiming to foster the culture of information security in Academic institutions in Brazil and Latin America. The celebration strives to create opportunities for institutions to discuss good practices in the use of technology in its local communities.
