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Year 1 - Nº 4, October 2005
Bimonthly bulletin
LOCAL SUBJECTS
19 - 21 of October:
Caracas received the members of
CLARATEC
A new stage for Panamá:
RedCyT in the pole position of RedCLARA
Costa Rica linked
CR2Net made specific its connection to
RedCLARA
Vigny Alvarado Castillo:
Costa Rica has Potential to Offer to the Global
Academic Networks
Peruvian scientists, academics and researchers, be
prepare to take off
RAAP has Started its Flight
November 28 - 30:
Second Annual Meeting of the ALICE –
CLARA Project
RedCLARA NEG-TREK
Captain Porto: We Know What You Did…
(Last Summer)
CENTRAL SUBJECTS
Recommendations of Participant
Organizations of the Civil Society for the IV
Summit of the Américas
RNP stimulates the use of Planet Lab in Brazil
Project endorsed by NSF
GENI: A geniality or the promise of a new
internet architecture?
Important document in Internet2:
How will future academic networks be
handled?
New GÉANT2 Video:
Lights. Camera. Action!
AWARDS & GRANTS
AGENDA
Joaquín Guerrero
President of RAAP (Peru),
Vowel of the Directory of CLARA.
Editorial
The integration through the
electronic communication networks,
has been always a yearning
extremely coveted by the academic
and research communities. We
remember the precursory BITNET, as
the network that in the 70s got
together diverse universities, mainly
North American, that were benefited
from the development of joint
projects that united their better
researchers and equipment, without
concerning the geographical
distances. The development of the
Internet, as we know it nowadays,
appeared like a simple and cheap
alternative, so that who could not
work with the BITNET of long ago,
could look for to do it in modern networks of academic profile. In
our region, diverse circumstances made difficult the integration
between the institutions. The results were inefficient and isolated
efforts. The formation of true national academic networks was
frustrated.
At the beginnings of the present millenium, the European Commission,
through the ALICE project, finances the creati