Latin America
eduroam is spreading rapidly through Mexico
In Mexico, the eduroam service has grown significantly in the last several years, from two locations 2014 to 444 today, providing the research and education community with a secure, free national and worldwide wifi roaming service.
IoT solution may help in the treatment of obese children
Data from the Internet of Things Applied to Pediatrics project developed in Brazil may contribute to the early identification of risk factors related to obesity.
GPS Network Navigates Climate and Seismic Disaster Prevention
TLALOC-Net is a network of GPS and meteorological stations used to study the atmospheric and solid earth processes, allowing better analysis of the Mexican subduction zone.
Cooperation with Mozambique: from telehealth to cybersecurity
Cyber Security
Education
Health & Medicine
Knowledge Exchange
Technology
MoRENet (Mozambique)
RNP (Brazil)
A collaboration between Brazil and Mozambique involving training and knowledge sharing has yielded beneficial results in a number of areas ranging from telehealth to cybersecurity.
Using educational games to teach math
3rd grade students from seven public schools near Sao Paolo have participated in a pilot project for the preparation of games to favour math learning. The project is proving that learning numbers and calculus can be a more fun experience with the use of educational games in the classroom
LAGO Observatory: global collaboration, cosmic results
Astronomy
Earth Observation
Energy
CEDIA (Ecuador)
CUDI (Mexico)
GÉANT (Europe)
InnovaRed (Argentina)
RAGIE (Guatemala)
RedCLARA (Latin America)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RENATA (Colombia)
REUNA (Chile)
RNP (Brazil)
The LAGO (Latin American Giant Observatory) project traverses the skies of Latin America to set its sights on uncovering the mysteries of faraway galaxies.
System collects data to minimize climate change impact on the Amazon
The Amazon region is one of the ecosystems on the planet most affected by global climate change. The reason is variations in the Ecuador line cause events like floods, droughts and storms that directly affect the environment and the local population.
From cultural heritage to particle physics, VC technology makes global collaboration easy in Latin America
Arts & Culture
Education
Technology
CUDI (Mexico)
RAU2 (Uruguay)
RedCLARA (Latin America)
RENATA (Colombia)
REUNA (Chile)
The Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa in Uruguay, a network of cultural facilities, coproduces online events using second-generation netowrking technologies and promotes both research on new uses of the Internet in cultural production and the exchange of content.
Networking of galactic proportions to uncover the mysteries of the universe
The skies of Latin America have captivated stargazers for centuries. Today, the landscape is dotted with many of the world’s most advanced and important regional, national and international observatories, providing forefront access to the heavens and beyond – enabling groundbreaking research to advance our knowledge of the universe.
Ecuador’s upgraded network fuels groundbreaking research on conservation and biodiversity
Astronomy
Biodiversity
Education
Environment
Food Security
Particle Physics
CEDIA (Ecuador)
RedCLARA (Latin America)
The Amazon is the largest and best-known center of biodiversity on the planet, but its forests are being lost at unsustainably high rates. Ongoing research in the Ecuadorian Amazon since the mid-1990s has resulted in concrete environmental benefits for the region and is now supported by a new connection between Ecuador and the United States.
Supporting environmental public policies of Chile
Dr. Javier Sellanes, a professor at the Universidad Católica del Norte is manager of the project that gave life to Pandora, the platform that manages a distributed repository network for the conservation of information related to biodiversity in Chile, including over 30 thousand species of flora and fauna.
Brazil breaks new ground with advanced telemedicine network
The Telemedicine University Network Rute in Brazil is considered the biggest initiative in telemedicine and telehealth in the world. Watch the interview with Rute’s coordinator, Luiz Ary Messina, and learn more about the reach and roadmap for this world-changing initiative.