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The second open strategic dialogue of the BELLA II project was held on October 9 and 10 in San Salvador, El Salvador, with the aim of facilitating the exploration of strategies and enabling practices for meaningful connectivity and contributing to the development of a people-centered digital ecosystem that promotes innovation, knowledge management, and socio-economic development.

More than 100 students from Latin America registered, representing 8 countries, 30 universities, and more than 20 of knowledge, resulting from the calls of the second edition of the Co-Afina Hackathon, which will be held remotely from October 20 to 22.

As part of the celebrations of Cybersecurity Month in October, the Chilean Advanced Network, REUNA, and the Vice-Rectorate of Information Technologies (VTI) of the University of Chile, with the support of the University Cybersecurity Collaboration Network (UCISO), the Chilean Society for Information Security (Sochisi) and the Chilean Institute of Law and Technologies (ICDT), launched the virtual course "Cybersecurity for Higher Education: Regulatory Aspects and Security Fundamentals".

French-Costa Rican Guy de Téramond Peralta was one of the 2023 inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame. De Téramond is the former Costa Rican Minister of Science and Technology, a post in which he led the Advanced Internet Network project to bring broadband connectivity to the entire country.

Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands will share its experience in raising awareness of the importance of cybersecurity among its staff at the third and final session of the series of meetings promoted by GÉANT as part of the "Cybersecurity Month 2023: Become a cyberhero" campaign.

A pilot project for the digital issuance of verifiable credentials applied to digital diplomas created jointly by experts from the advanced networks CUDI (Mexico), RENATA (Colombia), REUNA (Chile) and CEDIA (Ecuador), with the support of RedCLARA, was one of the initiatives presented at the first Symposium of the Ibero-American Network of Blockchain and Cybersecurity - RIBCI, which was held on October 5 and 6, in hybrid format, with the face-to-face activities developed in the premises of the Technological University of Panama.