"RedCLARA: Latin American network for Science, Education and Innovation"

1. "RedCLARA: Latin American network for Science, Education and Innovation"

2. @LIS Program: Alliance for the Information Society. • ALICE – América Latina Interconectada con Europa. • CLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas - RedCLARA.

3. @LIS Program Cooperation programme resulting of the political dialogue between the Heads of State or of Government of the European Union and Latin America aiming to promote the Information Society and to fight the digital divide throughout Latin America. Action Lines: • Stimulate the cooperation between European and Latin American participants. • Facilitate the integration of the Latin American countries in a global Information Society. • Promote the dialogue between all actors and users of the Information Society. • Improve the interconnection between research communities of both regions • Meet the needs of local communities and citizens. • Implement innovative applications through 19 demonstration projects.

4. ALICE Project(América Latina Interconectada con Europa) Objective: to improve connectivity for research and education institutions within the region by providing research networking infrastructure within Latin America • EC Funded project within the @LIS Program: € 12.5 Million. € 10 Million from EC, € 2.5 Million from LA Regional Networks • Set up in May 30, 2003 to develop RedCLARA • Provides infrastructure, training, seminars, meetings, dissemination, sustainability actions • 3 years project.

5. ALICE Project(América Latina Interconectada con Europa) • (cont.) • Alice approach: To invite all 18 Latin American countries to participate. • Managed by DANTE, a non-profit organization, owned by european NRENs, which played a pivotal role in GEANT development. • Owing to its success, the ALICE project has been extended until 31 March 2008 from its original end date of May 2006.

6. CLARACooperación Latino Americana de Redes AvanzadasLatin American Cooperation for Advanced Networks

7. CLARA Organization • Born in June 2003 (México). • Private, non governmental, non for profit organization, legally established in Montevideo (Uruguay). • Partners: Regional Networks (NRENs) form Latin America countries.

8. CLARA Objectives • To integrate a regional telecommunications network - of the higher technology - to interconnect the National Academic Networks of the region (NRENs). • To foster the cooperation for the promotion of scientific and technological development; • To establish the coordination between the National Academic Networks of Latin America and with other blocks; CLARA connects more than 700 universities and research centers of Latin America and stimulates the regional cooperation in educative and scientific activities, besides to promote direct integration with scientific communities of Europe, USA and the Pacific regions.

9. CLARA A descentralized organization NREN´s NREN´s TECHs Chile Mexico (CUDI) Brasil (RNP) Chile Mexico Uruguay

11. CLARA Members Conectados (13 países): • Chile (Sep/04) • Argentina (Oct/04) • Brasil (Oct/04) • México (Nov/04) • Perú (Abr/05) • Uruguay (Jun/05) • Panamá (Jun/05) • Venezuela (Nov/05) • Guatemala (Dic/05) • El Salvador (Dic/05) • Ecuador (Ene/06) • Colombia (Mar/06) • Nicaragua (Mar/06) Pendientes: • Costa Rica (reconecting) • Bolivia • Paraguay • Honduras • Cuba

13. REDES REGIONALES REDES REGIONALES • RUMBO - Bogotá12 instituciones www.rumbo.edu.co • RUMBA - Barranquilla6 instituciones www.redrumba.edu.co • UNIRED - Bucaramanga9 instituciones www.unired.edu.co • RUAV - Cali8 instituciones www.ruav.edu.co • RUANA - Medellín8 instituciones www.ruana.edu.co • RUP - Popayán7 instituciones www.rup.edu.co

14. Datos de interés Redes CLARA

16. The Lisbon Summit 13. …….. In this regard, we want to bring to the attention of the Heads of State and Government the importance of maintaining the political and financial support to initiatives that consolidate the ICT based scientific collaboration space, such as redCLARA and its interconnection with GEANT, to guarantee its continued operation and bring an extension to the Caribbean region. ….

17. The EC-LA Summit in Vienna • We acknowledge the encouraging achievements of the on-going bi-regional (EU-LAC) activities in this field and consider that it is important to maintain the political and financial support to initiatives that consolidate the ICT-based scientific collaboration space.

18. The WSIS Recommendation 90.r)promoting the development of advanced research networks, at national, regional and international levels, in order to improve collaboration in science, technology and higher education;

19. On Going Proyects

20. ACLARA: • To develop a catalog (data base) of Research Projects being developed by the Latin American University System • To stablish a shared infrastructure • Shared acces to information • Supports exchange of information, contacts, in order to promote collaborative projects • State:On going

21. Regional Public Goods – IBD contest Consolidation of RedCLARA and the national networks (NRENs) Resources: US$ 600.000 (not refundable) Already approved and signed (April 2006) Main aspects: • Normative aspects (US$62.000) – • Institutional structure of CLARA and of the NRENs - (US$ 183.000) – • Strenghthening of the National Academic Networks (US$ 524.000) – • Development of thematical regional networks and creation of content (US$ 144.000)

22. EELA: Extending EGEE to Latin América. • E- Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America • Grid Computing - among LA and Europe institutions. • Human network working ion grids, e-science and e-infrastructure • Financing : EC VI Frame Cooperation Program (FP6) • Started: Jan. 2006 • EELA2 : Resources from FP7.

23. ESO Paranal Optical Observatory • Very Large Telescope located near Antofagasta in Chile • VLT Interferometer

24. Pierre Auger Observatory: Cosmic Rays in the Argentinean Andes • To study the universe's highest energy particles • Located 400 Km South of Mendoza in Argentina • US$ 50 Million Budget • Data must leave the “Pampa” and go to Europe, Japan, US • AugerAccess to link the observatory to RedCLARA

25. RedCLARA GÉANT Sharing Instrumentation: RINGrid: Remote Instrumentation on Next Generation Networks • 8 countries • Remote access to scientific instruments • Hundreds of Instruments • Funded by EC • Jan2007

26. Related projects: • Access to Data • Access to Digital Libraries • Sharing expensive instruments and laboratories • Access to expensive computer clusters and computational grids

27. And more… • Geodesic Observatories (Brazil and Chile) • Oceanography • Desertification (Argentina, Chile) • Seismology (Pacific Fire Belt) • Health • Cultural Heritage (Guatemala, Mexico, Perú, etc.) • Education

28. What else… • Earth Sciences ( Disasters, Pollution, Earthquakes, Changes in environment, Biodiversity, Oceanography, Agriculture, Climate, Hidrology, vulcanology, …..) • Physics • Robotics • Art, culture – Distribution of high quality videos, high resolution mages • Virtual – educatión – Masters, PHds shared among teachers of different nal./int.. universities…. • Grid computing • Virtual reality • Telemedicine .Ej: surgeries available to students through videoconferences – Visualization of graphic models for histology, anatomy, molecular biology, anatomy….. • Services – Voice over Internet, videoconference, multicasting, video – streaming,… • Mapping

29. EC Cooperation Program FP7Total Budget B€ 50,521 Cooperation program B€ 32,365

30. CLARA and RedCLARA • CLARA and RedCLARA are important means to diffuse knowledge and to exchange experiences among countries. • CLARA foments and supports the development of multi national collaborative projects in Latin America.

31. http://www.redclara.netMartha Giraldomgiraldo@agenda.gov.co