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The fourteenth annual GÉANT Association Compendium of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Europe is now available. The Compendium documents the work currently being done by NRENs, examining the different contexts in which they operate and explaining important trends in research and education networking that concern them.

To be held in the city of Lima, Peru, from May 18 to 22, 2015, LACNIC23 a space designed for networking and sharing experiences as well as for keeping up with key regional and global Internet news and issues. For those RedCLARA members interested in participate the deadline to participate in the draw for the ten grants is up to 02.20.2015, at 00 UTC.

In 2014 Kenya held the badge of being the country with the fastest Internet connectivity and highest rate of Internet access for its people across all sectors of the economy including education and all this at some of the lowest prices in Africa! In 2015 the status quo remains the same.

With this interview to the Brazilian researcher Mauro Cesar Bernardes, we began the series entitled "Five questions to" where we will discover the importance that those who have been involved in the TICAL conferences give to this annual meeting.

Mobile apps are critical emergency telecommunications component responding to epidemics.

In Netherlands, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (Erasmus MC) and the Delft University of Technology are working on analysis techniques of medical imaging and other data. Large-scale imaging data sets containing brain scans of participants in long-term studies help to diagnose – and even predict – the onset of illness (a method known as ‘population imaging’). The accuracy of a prediction depends on the quantity of data available: the more data, the better the prediction. In this respect, collaboration over the advanced e-Infrastructure provided by SURF is crucial.