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Along with the support from the LAC-ICT Expert Group and from other relevant ICT stakeholders and decision makers, the LEADERSHIP consortium shared, in April, the recent publications of the LEADERSHIP project aimed to enhance Europe-Latin America research & innovation cooperation in ICT as well as to provide an overview of Latin American ICT landscape.

The proposals are currently being evaluated by the Program Committee and on May 18th the selected authors will be notify and they will receive support from RedCLARA to participate in the Conference.

During the call for papers, open since November 19, 2014 until April 25th, 2015, a total of 171 proposals were received from actors involved in the management of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) of the universities and research institutions from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, USA, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Venezuela.

As in previous editions, this year RedCLARA will pay the cost of airfare of those authors whose works are chosen to be part of the conference program. In the case that a work has more than one author, they should choose a representative who will receive the benefit. The benefit will cover the cost of airfare and the author will cover the cost of registration and cost stay (food, lodging and local transportation).

For more information please visit: http://tical2015.redclara.net/

"TICAL has been growing and improving year after year," says the Director of Informatics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Roberto Price, who has participated in the last two editions of the Conference and this year integrates its Program Committee.

TICAL2015 is fast approaching and in our series "Five questions to" we follow talking about the conference with those who were prominent assistants in the previous editions of the event. The interviewed of the week is the ecuadorian Rodrigo Padilla, who participated in all four editions of TICAL. Systems Engineer at the University of Cuenca, Padilla will also participate in 2015 and tells us a little about his experiences in the past versions and about your expectations for the edition to be held in July, in Viña del Mar, Chile

Senior Vice President for IT-Systems and Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Technical University of München, Hans Pongratz will be one of the most relevant voices in TICAL2015. Get to know him.

Register until May 4, at 16h UTC and participate in the meeting to be held through videoconference in May 6, with the participation of speakers from Chile, Colombia, Spain and Brazil discussing the theme "Academic Contribution on a holistic view of cities."