RedCLARA Communications and Public Relations LA NRENs PR Network

1. RedCLARA Communications and Public Relations LA NRENs PR Network María José López Pourailly RedCLARA PR and Communications Manager TF-CPR Meeting TNC2012 May 20, 2012 Reykjavík, Iceland

2. Outline • About RedCLARA • RedCLARA Communities • Services • Communications and Public Relations • LA NRENs PR Network • CKLN

3. RedCLARA is PEOPLE + eInfrastructure

4. RedCLARA is A human and legal association + the Latin American advanced network

5. RedCLARA is advanced eInfrastructure

6. RedCLARA is the LA Academic Network • 14 NRENs connected among themselves and with Europe, the US and the World • Strong regional infrastructure • NRENs organized in RedCLARA actively participate in international calls • Dark Fiber between AR-BR-CL • Dark Fiber between Panama and Mexico • Gigabit links elsewhere but between Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Panamá

7. RedCLARA is bridging geographical and digital divide

8. RedCLARA is advanced eInfrastructure that is helping to solve big problems in LA ResearchRedCLARA is linking scientists to tackle meaningfull regional problems

9. RedCLARA Members

10. ALICE and ALICE2 Collaborating and growing • € 10 Millions budget to be provided by the EC, through EuropeAid • Co funding of € 2.5 Millions provided by the LA NRENs (National Research and Education Networks) • June 2003 until March 2008 • Emphasis on • To develop a Latin American Research and Education network and connect it to Europe • To create an institution to manage the network and provide continuity • To train technicians • € 12 Millions budget to be provided by the EC, through EuropeAid • Co funding of € 6 Millions to be provided by the LA NRENs • Additional € 2.5 Millon Euros contributed by Brazil • December 2008 until August 2012 • Emphasis on • To create an upgraded long lasting infrastructure, • To build a sustainabilty model, • To foster the creation of MDG Oriented applications • To works towards Inclusion • To Build technical and managerial Capacity

11. Communities Thanks to the ALICE2 and IDB projects, RedCLARA is supporting the creation and development of users and research communities in two ways : • Human Capacity Building ; • LA Scientific Communities.

12. Communities Human Capacity Building: CLARA-TEC + Executive Training CLARA-TEC: Technical WG, support by ALICE2: • GT-SCIFI | Intelligent control system wireless networks • GT- PIT VOIP | Internet Exchange Point Voice over IP • GT-MOF | Mobility wit OpenFlow • GT – Measurements • GT - MCONF| Multiconference system for the interoperable access to Web and mobile devices • GT-IPTV • GT-DEIM-IPV6 • GT-CSIRT | Computer Security Incident Response Team • GT-Mobility Executive Training (ALICE2 and IDB support): Marketing, Management, Projects proposals, etc.

13. Communities LA Sientific Communities: identification and building COMCLARA2011: Open call for research / users groups to foster the creation of scientific / academic communities in FP7 and MDGs relevant topics, in order to receive support from RedCLARA in both technical and financial forms. Proposals came from the following scientific areas and countries: 13

14. Communities LA Scientific Communities: identification and building COMCLARA is now supporting the following communities: • Large Aperture Gamma Ray Bursa Observatory (LAGO, Argentina) • Map and Programme of Arts in Digital Dance -and performance- (MAPA D2, Brazil) • Latin-American Community of Learning Objects (LACLO, Venezuela) • Latin-American Community of Libraries and Digital Repositories (COLABORA, Ecuador) • Programme of Influenza for Central America and Panama (Influenza, Guatemala) • Initial Academic Training in ICT (TIC en FID, Chile) • International Network for the Recovery of the Non-Material Inheritage of Musical Traditions (ACHALAI, Chile) • High Performance Scientific Computing (ICT in Grids, Colombia) • Community of Arts and Cultura over the Network (ARCU-RED, Colombia) • Image Processing Online Latin America (IPOL-LA, Uruguay) • Open Latin-American Community of Learning and Social Research (CLARISE, Mexico) • Latin-American Community of Space Data Infrastructure (Latin IDE, Ecuador) • Latin-American Community of Research and Knowledge Building (CLIC, Colombia)

15. + Services + Collaboration • RedCLARA Portal

16. + Services + Collaboration RedCLARA Portal: Focused on Service to Communities. One stop shop for: • Services that requiere registration: • Webconference (VCEspresso) • Videoconference (SIVIC) • Conference/Seminars/Events Management (Indico) • E-Learning System (Moodle) • Video on Demand (RedCLARAVe) • Large File Transfer • Websites homing (eScaparate) • Web 2.0: Wikis, Blogs, Photo & Video sharing • Researchers/Funding oportunities/Partner search • Services without registration: • Find a project partner • Institutions connected in LA to RedCLARA (InteliMap) • Check out your connection (done by REUNA) • News, agenda, bulletins, etc.

17. RedCLARA Communications and PR From TNC2011 till now, we have done… • Regular updates of RedCLARA’s Portal (Spanish, Portuguese and English): contents, projects, news (we are currently working in new updates – contents architecture + services) • 4 editions of the DeCLARA bulletin – EN + ES + PT (http://www.redclara.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=560&lang=en) • 26 editions of the RedCLARA Express newsletter – EN + ES + PT(http://www.redclara.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=629&Itemid=561&lang=en) • 10 editions of the news flash: DeCLARA al día – ES (http://www.redclara.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=630&Itemid=562&lang=en) • @LIS2 Communications Plan (in collaboration with ECLAC and REGULATEL) • @LIS2 Website: http://www.alis2.eu/ • InfoDays dissemination 2011

18. Communications and PR • New material: • Illustrated RedCLARA Topology Map updated • 5 new case studies • 2 brochures for SIVIC • RedCLARA’s brochure update • RedCLARA’s questionnaire for the Compendium of Latin American National Research and Education Networks • Ellaboration of the Compendium (draft version in Spanish delivered in May 12, 2012) • Posters and promotional material for ELLA project • TICAL 2011 Conference (Panama – June 2011) + website • eInfrastructure between EU and LA Conference (October 2011 – Brazil) • Interviews with regional RENs leaders • 2 RedCLARA-ALICE2 member meetings organization (Honduras – June, uruguay – November, 2011) • ELCIRA project branding

19. LA NRENs PR Network • 3 virtual meetings • 1 face-to-face meeting: Montevideo (Uruguay), November 7 and 8 2011 • First Global Virtual Day, March 22nd 2012. The first participation of the Caribbean network (C@ribnet, CKLN) in an international on-line event: http://2012globalday.redclara.net/en_index.html • 2nd LA NREN PR Network Compendium

20. LA NRENs PR Network • Face-to-face meeting: Montevideo (Uruguay), November 7 and 8 2011: • Colleen Wint-Smith from CKLN (the Caribbean) participate with us! She is one of our members – we are eager to go global! • Experience sharing • Twitter + Facebook • Case studies • 2nd LA NREN PR Network Compendium – CKLN and UbuntuNet Alliance have been invited to add their responses in order to transform this in a more global material – what about Europe? • First Global Virtual Day, March 22nd 2012

21. LA NRENs PR Network First Global Virtual Day, March 22nd 2012. The first participation of the Caribbean network (C@ribnet, CKLN) in an international on-line event: http://2012globalday.redclara.net/en_index.html

22. LA NRENs PR Network First Global Virtual Day “2012, end or substantial change of the world?” • 214 people connected to the online transmission, • 11 countries around the world (9 of which were connected to RedCLARA, plus Spain and Jamaica). • Themes ranging from the idea of an apocalypse in 2012; natural disasters; risk scenarios from earthquakes and tsunamis in Chile, Japan and Mexico; the formation of a volcano in the Canary Islands; and disaster preparedness and emergency management. • The audience was invited to pose questions to the experts • A fully interactive and educational global experience: Latin America + the Caribbean + Europe. • The event marked the first time that the Caribbean network CKLN participated in an international event by videoconference.

23. LA NRENs PR Network - Facebook

24. LA NRENs PR Network - Twitter

25. Happy to be part of theLA NRENs PR Network

26. Happy to be part of theLA NRENs PR Network Julio Cardozo, RAU (Uruguay): I appreciate of our group the desire to be alwyas in touch with each other, share things, enhance our knowledge and apply it on specific experiences in our networks. When I became a member of this group I learned to work in a more structural way about topics related to visibility and its strategies for a proper implementation. Monica Aguilera, REUNA (Chile): What I value most is the possibility to meet us in person, to create bonds of friendship in the long term, and most of all to collaborate and share experiences, exchange knowledge and support the disemination of the work of our networks. Laura Casasa, RedCONARE (Costa Rica): What I value the most is the creative and productive capacity of the group, taking into account the economic and development diffiiculties of the advanced networks in different countries. Besides, I love the great affection and team spirit that exists within all members. I felt welcome from the beginning. I have learned to value things that are available and to move forward with ideas and projects.

27. Happy to be part of theLA NRENs PR Network Ixchel Perez RAGIE and RAICES (Guatemala and El Salvador): What I value the most is the group's ability to unite efforts and creativity to make new things that impact most strongly in the region. Together we sound “louder” and our voices can be hear in a more powerful fashion. In addition, the collaboration to promote the activities of different countries is exceptional. Martha Avila, CUDI (Mexico): We were able to link the activities developed in the Latin American networks, through the dissemination of events acomplishing a collaborative work among academics and researchers, a key objective of the NRENs. A good example of this was the Global Virtual Day where we join forces for the participation by videoconference and through streaming of more than 60 institutions in Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean. Sonia Contreras, RAAP (Peru): The great value of our group is the ability of carry out collaborative work, which enabled us to strengthen the visibility of our academic networks in a national and international level, and to overcome difficulties. Being a member of the team is important because we can move forward strategically, improve our communication channels to facilitate the disemination process, and strengthen the relations of work, friendship and fellowship.

28. Happy to be part of theLA NRENs PR Network Camilo Ocazionez Jaimes, RENATA (Colombia): The Public Relations Network is vital to the development of the RENATA communication activities as long as it makes possible to increase the visibility of the institution in the 15 countries connected to RedCLARA, plus Spain, the Caribbean and TERENA , where our network is present. For the particular case of RENATA, has also been very important as a support group for the design of collaborative strategies that will result in more accurate and efficient communication desitions. Due to the accompaniment of this network of relationships, RENATA is the academic network with more publicated news in TERENA, followed closely by CUDI ... This results in the visibility of our networks in Europe. And finally, the communications media of the Public Relations Network has been very useful to articulate the academic community of the countries. Tania Altamirano (RedCLARA): Two heads think better than one and in this case 10 heads had meant a lot of good ideas! The results are collaborative activities, a better and efficient dissemination of the events developed in the national networks and the establishment of a human network aiming to improve and enhance the communications activities developed around the advanced networks. Was it easy? No! But the results are proving that the effort was worth it.

29. LA NRENs PR Network • What comes next? • More virtual meetings – by videoconference • Survive to the end of the ALICE2 project and… • GO GLOBAL!!!: • RedCLARA + CKLN + UbuntuNet Alliance, regional networks aiming to collaborate between us and with the rest of the world… and tackle as a unique group the problem of teaching the final users what our networks are for! • And talking about going global and collaboration, a few slides from CKLN:

30. & The Global Topology

31. Topology 26 million people from 21 Caribbean states

32. Emerging Caribbean NRENs • PHASE 2 • Bahamas • Belize • Guyana • Suriname • Haiti • PHASE 1 • JREN – Jamaica • BREN – Barbados • TTREN – Trinidad and Tobago • RADEI – Dominican Republic - currently the only registered NREN • OECS REN – Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

33. The Caribbean NREN Declaration • The inaugural Assembly of NRENs meeting in Barbados on May 3 - 4 2012, collectively welcome the formal establishment of C@ribNET as a means of linking the technical and national networks of the entire Caribbean region and for regional development. • The Declaration focused on issues of Governance, Sustainability, Applications & Shared Services and NREN Development & Community Building – this included the Development of a marketing plan which presents the value proposition for stakeholders

34. PR/Communications Priorities • Support for • NREN Development & Visibility • Promotion of applications and shared services • Building Communities (Assembly of NRENs) • Collaborative development and sharing of content

35. Thanks! Questions… could we talk about going global? Maria-jose.lopez@redclara.net