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The Evaluation Committee of the TICAL Conference and the Latin American e-Science Meeting presented this Friday, July 6, the list of papers selected for presentation at the two events, which will be held from September 3-5 at the Las Americas Convention Center, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. (See below)

The traditional Workshop on Internet Network Technologies for Latin America and the Caribbean (WALC), organized by the Fundación Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes (EsLaRed), divulged details about its 21st edition. The event, which takes place since 1992, will be held from November 26 to 30, 2018, at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The Expanded Program Committee of the TICAL2018 Conference and the 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting, which will take place from September 3 to 5 at the Las Americas Convention Center in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, announced that the next Friday, July 6, is the date on which the papers chosen to be presented in both events will be announced.

The directors and responsibles for ICT in Latin American universities are invited to respond the survey "II Study on the Maturity of ICT Governance in the Universities of Latin America" published this Wednesday, June 20 at http://encuesta-reditic.redclara.net. The deadline to answer closes on July 20.

The 2017 Annual Reports of RNP and REUNA, the advanced networks of Brazil and Chile, respectively, are now available online. The publications detail the main milestones, goals and results that marked the work of the organizations in the last year.

A little less than four months after the launch of the TICAL and the 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting calls (closed on Monday, June 11), the Program Committee of the events disclosed the number of received proposals: There were 175 in total; 133 of TICAL and 42 of the Meeting of e-Science. Colombia, with 49 proposals, and Ecuador, with 37, were the most participatory countries, followed by Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.