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At the recent G7 ICT Ministers’ meeting held in Kagawa, Japan (the first such meeting the G7 group has held in nearly 20 years) strong and clear recognition was made of the importance of national research and education networks (NRENs) and of the global networking of the research and education community.

Research and Education Leaders will convene in Chicago for 2016 Global Summit, where the operator of the USA largest research and education infrastructure will celebrate its 20th anniversary.

The Undersecretariat of Telecommunications of Chile (SUBTEL) created in 2015 the " Telecommunication Day Recognition " to honor important people for their contribution and work in the development of this important area of the technology.

What is a Global Science Community (GSC) and how to become part of it? These and many other important questions about MAGIC’s GSC will be answered next May, in Africa, during the IST-Africa2016 Conference.

“The best way to celebrate the birthday of RENATA is to provide to the academic community a better network infrastructure, with better monitoring service in the ownership of our services. In July we will finish the implementation of the new network infrastructure with which Colombia will enter the top 10 of NREN - National Research and Education Networks - around the world”, says Lucas Giraldo Rios, Executive Director of RENATA.

This year the Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean (FRIDA) and the Internet Society will support two technical projects seeking to improve Internet security and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean by providing them with US$20,000 or US$30,000 in the form of grants.