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The new strategy of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) - Canada-based institution - reaffirms its commitment to invest in high quality research and innovation, expanding its focus on sharing knowledge and continuing to mobilize global alliances to support more sustainable and inclusive societies in the developing world, facing the problems of global climate change and persistent inequalities that today are especially aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

LACNIC announces that registration to participate in the ninth edition of the IPv6 Challenge, a competition designed to promote the use of this protocol in Latin America and the Caribbean, is now open. 

The TICAL Conference and the Latin American e-Science Meeting announced during February 10th, the opening of their calls for papers, inviting ICT directors, academics and researchers from Latin American universities to present their research efforts that express the development of initiatives that are contributing to the theme chosen for this edition of the events that will be held between August 30 and September 2, 2021, in virtual and free of charge format.

The National Center for Health Information Systems of Chile (CENS), an ally organization of the Chilean advanced network, REUNA, invites the medical and scientific community of the region and the world to be part of Huemul, the first Chilean educational platform, created for the community of developers in Digital Health, with the aim of promoting the teaching and learning of the health information exchange standard, HL7 FHIR.

In 2021 South America will be able to count for the first time on a latest generation submarine communication cable system directly connected to Europe. On December 14th, 2020, EllaLink, owner of the submarine cable of the same name, and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), responsible for the manufacture and deployment of the cable system, carried out the anchorage of the EllaLink cable at the Beach of the Future in Fortaleza, capital of the Brazilian state of Ceará. The connection between Fortaleza and Sines in Portugal, a distance of around 6000 km, is expected to be completed in January, 2021, and the resulting cable is expected to be ready for service (RFS) in the second quarter of 2021.

The state-of-the-art fiber optic cable that connects Portugal and Latin America has already arrived in Sines.

The system should be fully operational in the second quarter of 2021, making Portugal the new gateway to Europe to an unprecedented level of international connectivity.