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Gathered in Medellin, Colombia, on November 2 and 3, 2017, at the Fifth Meeting of Ministers and High level Authorities on Science and Technology of the Americas (V REMCYT) within the framework of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), the ministers and high authorities of science and technology of the Organization of American States (OAS) member states, issued the "Declaration of Medellín: Science, Technology and Innovation as Pillars of Transformation in the Americas", where they agree to accelerate the technological development of the region.

With the participation of representatives from Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador, Colombia, Argentina and Costa Rica, the Directive Council of LA Referencia met from September 27 to 29 in Buenos Aires aiming to generating a strategy to consolidate the network as a public good, highlighting the capacity for articulation and generation of agreements among member countries.

(Source: GLIF) GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, announces the availability of new world maps that showcase the global Research & Education multi-gigabit optical network infrastructure owned by its participating organizations. GLIF is a virtual organization (or facility) that consists of network providers, network engineers, computer scientists and computational scientists.

Aiming to consolidate efforts to guarantee the high-speed connectivity of Central America and its connection to the rest of Latin America through the BELLA Project (Building Europe Link to Latin America), RedCLARA Executive Director Luis Eliécer Cadenas, visited Mexico and its national advanced network, RedCUDI, during the first half of October.

Held between Oct. 11-13 in Montreal, Canada, the Congress of the Americas on International Education (CAEI) opened the way for the discussion on the role and place of ICT within higher education institutions - a subject that is being worked by RedCLARA during the last years in its TICAL Conference -, by means of a roundtable entitled "The ICT and the Internationalization of the Institutions of Higher Education: opportunities or a latent risk?".

“Ransomware: do not be a victim of virtual kidnapping” will be the central subject of DISI 2017 - the International Computer Security Day - that will be held at the National Confederation of Workers in Commerce (CNTC), in Brasilia (DF). Follow the online trasmission from 11;00 GMT and on!