The year has come to an end and brought with it the latest edition of the DeCLARA bulletin. In its version of number 40, the publication presents, as always, relevant content that will help you to understand the ICT environment in Latin America. Our cover story is about the choice of Viña del Mar, in Chile, to host the TICAL2015. Also known as "Garden City", Viña will receive the Latin American ICT directors from July 6 to 8 of 2015. The call for papers for the meeting is already opened.
DeCLARA also brings an important report on the Strategic Plan 2014-2018 of RedCLARA, with explanations about the prospects of the Network for the next three years, reports about the participation of the advanced networks in the Football World Cup in Brazil and about the union of TERENA and DANTE in Europe, as well as an interview with Javier de la Plaza, from Telefónica, talking about the importance of TICAL for the ICT environment. DeCLARA wishes you happy holidays and a great read!
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A meeting held during the last December 12th, in Rio de Janeiro, set the final details of a project that will benefit the entire Latin American community of advanced networks: the deployment of the Escola Superior de Redes (ESR, or Superior School of Networks, in english) of Colombia, which will be inaugurated on February 13th of 2015.
The event will involve the participation of experts from Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela, who will speak about the importance of open textbooks and the experience of the LATIn project in this area.
The event will include three meetings on 10, 12 and December 15 and will be held by videoconference (VC) with a simultaneous transmission through Internet. All the institutions members of the national networks connected to RedCLARA are invited to register their VC room until December 5th, 2014 at the 
To be held between July 6th and 8th of 2015 in the city of Viña del Mar, Chile, TICAL2015 - the Conference of the Network of Directors of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Latin American Universities - opened its call for submitting papers around the seven thematic axis defined by the Programme Committee of the event. The closing date of the call is dated for April 15th of 2015, at 24:00 GMT, and the papers must be submitted in strict alignment to the format established by the 