REUNA2: The Chilean BroadBand Network

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"RedCLARA Latin American network for Science,
Education and Innovation"
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• _at_LIS Program Alliance for the Information
  Society.
• ALICE América Latina Interconectada con
  Europa.
• CLARA - Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes
  Avanzadas - RedCLARA.

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_at_LIS Program

• Cooperation programme resulting of the political
  dialogue between the Heads of State or of
  Government of the European Union and Latin
  America aiming to promote the Information Society
  and to fight the digital divide throughout Latin
  America.
• Action Lines
• Stimulate the cooperation between European and
  Latin American participants.
• Facilitate the integration of the Latin American
  countries in a global Information Society.
• Promote the dialogue between all actors and users
  of the Information Society.
• Improve the interconnection between research
  communities of both regions
• Meet the needs of local communities and citizens.
  
• Implement innovative applications through 19
  demonstration projects.

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ALICE Project(América Latina
Interconectada con Europa)

• Objective to improve connectivity for research
  and education institutions within the region by
  providing research networking infrastructure
  within Latin America
• EC Funded project within the _at_LIS Program 12.5
  Million. 10 Million from EC, 2.5 Million from
  LA Regional Networks
• Set up in May 30, 2003 to develop RedCLARA
• Provides infrastructure, training, seminars,
  meetings, dissemination, sustainability actions
• 3 years project.

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ALICE Project(América Latina Interconectada con
Europa)

• (cont.)
• Alice approach To invite all 18 Latin American
  countries to participate.
• Managed by DANTE, a non-profit organization,
  owned by european NRENs, which played a pivotal
  role in GEANT development.
• Owing to its success, the ALICE project has been
  extended until 31 March 2008 from its original
  end date of May 2006.

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CLARA Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes
AvanzadasLatin American Cooperation for
Advanced Networks
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CLARA Organization

• Born in June 2003 (México).
• Private, non governmental, non for profit
  organization, legally established in Montevideo
  (Uruguay).
• Partners Regional Networks (NRENs) form Latin
  America countries.

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CLARA Objectives

• To integrate a regional telecommunications
  network - of the higher technology - to
  interconnect the National Academic Networks of
  the region (NRENs).
• To foster the cooperation for the promotion of
  scientific and technological development
• To establish the coordination between the
  National Academic Networks of Latin America and
  with other blocks
• CLARA connects more than 700 universities and
  research centers of Latin America and stimulates
  the regional cooperation in educative and
  scientific activities, besides to promote direct
  integration with scientific communities of
  Europe, USA and the Pacific regions.

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CLARA A descentralized organization
NRENs
NRENs TECHs
Chile
Mexico (CUDI)
Brasil (RNP)
Chile
Mexico
Uruguay
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CLARA Members

• Conectados (13 países)
• Chile (Sep/04)
• Argentina (Oct/04)
• Brasil (Oct/04)
• México (Nov/04)
• Perú (Abr/05)
• Uruguay (Jun/05)
• Panamá (Jun/05)
• Venezuela (Nov/05)
• Guatemala (Dic/05)
• El Salvador (Dic/05)
• Ecuador (Ene/06)
• Colombia (Mar/06)
• Nicaragua (Mar/06)
• Pendientes
• Costa Rica (reconecting)
• Bolivia
• Paraguay

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REDES REGIONALES
REDES REGIONALES

• RUMBO - Bogotá12 instituciones
• www.rumbo.edu.co
• RUMBA - Barranquilla6 instituciones
• www.redrumba.edu.co
• UNIRED - Bucaramanga9 instituciones
  www.unired.edu.co
• RUAV - Cali8 instituciones www.ruav.edu.co
• RUANA - Medellín8 instituciones
• www.ruana.edu.co
• RUP - Popayán7 instituciones
• www.rup.edu.co

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Datos de interés Redes CLARA
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The Lisbon Summit

• 13. .. In this regard, we want to bring to the
  attention of the Heads of State and Government
  the importance of maintaining the political and
  financial support to initiatives that consolidate
  the ICT based scientific collaboration space,
  such as redCLARA and its interconnection with
  GEANT, to guarantee its continued operation and
  bring an extension to the Caribbean region. .

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The EC-LA Summit in Vienna

• We acknowledge the encouraging achievements of
  the on-going bi-regional (EU-LAC) activities in
  this field and consider that it is important to
  maintain the political and financial support to
  initiatives that consolidate the ICT-based
  scientific collaboration space.

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The WSIS Recommendation

• 90.r)promoting the development of advanced
  research networks, at national, regional and
  international levels, in order to improve
  collaboration in science, technology and higher
  education

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On Going Proyects
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• ACLARA
• To develop a catalog (data base) of Research
  Projects being developed by the Latin American
  University System
• To stablish a shared infrastructure
• Shared acces to information
• Supports exchange of information, contacts, in
  order to promote collaborative projects
• StateOn going

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Regional Public Goods IBD contest

• Consolidation of RedCLARA and the national
  networks (NRENs)
• Resources US 600.000 (not refundable)
• Already approved and signed (April 2006)
• Main aspects
• Normative aspects (US62.000)
• Institutional structure of CLARA and of the NRENs
  - (US 183.000)
• Strenghthening of the National Academic Networks
  (US 524.000)
• Development of thematical regional networks and
  creation of content (US 144.000)

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• EELA Extending EGEE to Latin América.
• E- Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin
  America
• Grid Computing - among LA and Europe
  institutions.
• Human network working ion grids, e-science and
  e-infrastructure
• Financing EC VI Frame Cooperation Program
  (FP6)
• Started Jan. 2006
• EELA2 Resources from FP7.

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ESO Paranal Optical Observatory

• Very Large Telescope located near Antofagasta in
  Chile
• VLT Interferometer

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Pierre Auger Observatory Cosmic Rays in the
Argentinean Andes

• To study the universe's highest energy particles
• Located 400 Km South of Mendoza in Argentina
• US 50 Million Budget
• Data must leave the Pampa and go to Europe,
  Japan, US
• AugerAccess to link the observatory to RedCLARA

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Sharing Instrumentation RINGrid Remote
Instrumentation on Next Generation Networks

• 8 countries
• Remote access to scientific instruments
• Hundreds of Instruments
• Funded by EC
• Jan2007

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Related projects

• Access to Data
• Access to Digital Libraries
• Sharing expensive instruments and laboratories
• Access to expensive computer clusters and
  computational grids

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And more

• Geodesic Observatories (Brazil and Chile)
• Oceanography
• Desertification (Argentina, Chile)
• Seismology (Pacific Fire Belt)
• Health
• Cultural Heritage (Guatemala, Mexico, Perú, etc.)
• Education

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What else

• Earth Sciences ( Disasters, Pollution,
  Earthquakes, Changes in environment,
  Biodiversity, Oceanography, Agriculture, Climate,
  Hidrology, vulcanology, ..)
• Physics
• Robotics
• Art, culture Distribution of high quality
  videos, high resolution mages
• Virtual educatión Masters, PHds shared among
  teachers of different nal./int.. universities.
• Grid computing
• Virtual reality
• Telemedicine .Ej surgeries available to students
  through videoconferences Visualization of
  graphic models for histology, anatomy, molecular
  biology, anatomy..
• Services Voice over Internet, videoconference,
  multicasting, video streaming,
• Mapping

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EC Cooperation Program FP7Total Budget B
50,521 Cooperation program B 32,365
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CLARA and RedCLARA

• CLARA and RedCLARA are important means to diffuse
  knowledge and to exchange experiences among
  countries.
• CLARA foments and supports the development of
  multi national collaborative projects in Latin
  America.

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http//www.redclara.netMartha
Giraldomgiraldo_at_agenda.gov.co