<<Current events

Internet2 Virtual Briefing

"The Future of Network Security: Examining the Issues from Networking 2003”

Thursday, May 22.

Internet2 Virtual Briefing on Thursday, May 22. Scheduled for 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT (17.00-18.30 UTC), the May Briefing will include remarks on cybersecurity and cybertrust by Peter Freeman, assistant director of the National Science Foundation and head of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. Portions of taped comments by Nancy Wong, director of the Office of Planning and Partnerships in the Department of Homeland Security, and Richard Marshall, deputy director, Office of Planning and Partnerships, United States Department of Homeland Security, from the recent EDUCAUSE NET2003 conference will be included as well (http://www.educause.edu/conference/networking/2003/). Mike Roberts and Gary Bachula from Internet2 will discuss current higher education network security initiatives and provide commentary on key issues raised by the speakers.

Viewers may participate interactively via H.323 videoconferencing and the Internet2 Commons MCU. In addition, questions may be submitted at any time to
vb-questions@internet2.edu

Please join your colleagues and others in the network security community for this Briefing. For more information about the May Virtual Briefing, see
http://events.internet2.edu/briefings/date/200305.html.
 

IX Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Informática

August 11 - 15,  2003

6^th Latin American and Caribbean Workshop on Internet Technology Networks
October 20 - 24

The Latin-American Networking School Foundation (ESLARED) of Los Andes University, Merida, Venezuela,  invites technical personnel of institutions involved with networking technology from Latin America and The Caribbean to this workshop, sponsored by OAS/IACD, InfoDev, FONACIT, UNESCO, FUNDACITE Merida, Internet Society, Universidad de Los Andes, Centro Nacional de Tecnologías de Información - Foro de Redes para América Latina y el Caribe (ENRED).

Venue: Los Andes University, Merida, Venezuela

More information: WALC 2003

American Society for Microbiology Pan-American Health Organization

 Fellowship for Latin America

The American Society for Microbiology is accepting applications for the 2003 ASM International Fellowship Program. The goal of this ASM Program is to encourage research and training collaborations in microbiological sciences. Applicants must be researchers from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, or Peru, holders of Masters, PhD, or other equivalent academic degrees, and with at least five years of laboratory experience in the area of bacterial resistance to antimicrobials.

Deadline: April 15 and October 15, 2003

More information: ASM-PAHO Fellowship for Latin America

III Ibero- American Workshop  on integrated focus on Water Problems

June 9 - 13 2003

Activities of  CYTED Program

The Ibero-American Program on Science and Technology for Development (CYTED) announces its activities to be carried out during March and April 2003.  In particular, these activities include workshops, courses and seminars, coordination meetings, among others.

More information: CYTED Activities

International Symposium

 "Towards a new social contract in science and technology for an equitable development"

May 18 - 21, 2003

Symposium oriented to pursuit scientific and technological development in Colombia as a result of the recommendations of the Science, Education and Development Mission and the Science and Technology Law.

Deadline: April 25, 2003

More information: Antioquia University Bicentenary

The Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program

Announcement of the  2003 competitions.

The Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the US National Park Service will be awarding eight US$78,000 scholarships for Ph.D. students throughout the Americas to conduct research for the conservation of national parks of the region.

Deadline : May 15,  2003

More Information: Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program

May 28 to June 02, 2001

IV Latin American and the Caribbean Workshop on
INTERNET Technology Networks 

Universidad de los Andes, Nucleo la Hechicera
Facultades de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Merida - Venezuela

General Goals: 
-Provide advance hands-on training on networking technology and Internet access and applications in the Spanish language.
-Form a critical mass of professionals in networking technologies, information processing, network services, and project management to foster Internet utilization in the Latin-American and Caribbean countries, with emphasis on educational, health improvement and productivity enhacement.
-Identify and reinforce individual and institutional links for national and regional activities based on Internet.

Organized by:   Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), Latin-American Networking School Foundation (ESLARED), National Center on Information Technology in Venezuela (CNTI),  Latin American and the Caribbean Forum of Networks (ENRED), and Internet Society (ISOC).

For more information visit (ESLARED)

September 20 to 23, 1999

First Network Technology Workshop - RUDAC
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUMM)

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

• This event is geared toward network professionals who will be discussing TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Network Security, Apache server, NT Networking, IP Routing, among other issues. 
  

• The OAS through RedHUCyT, the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), and  the Red Universitaria Dominicana Académica y Científica - RUDAC  are organizing this workshop, which will take place at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.  
  

• Network Workshop is also sponsored by CISCO Systems, which lent routers, and by O'Reilly & Associates  which donated books to be distributed among the participants.
  

• Support to this event by the OAS through the RedHUCyT project is part of  the commitment of this Organization to expand Internet connections of  its member countries.
  
  

For more information visit RUDAC

October 13-15 - Aguscalientes, Mexico

Latin American and the Caribbean Symposium 
on Information Technologies in Society:
Present and Future Use and Impact

For more information visit INEGI

July 13 and 14

SECOND MEETING OF REGIONAL COORDINATION PROJECTS OF INFORMATION ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
INFOCYT - MERCOCYT - RICYT
in Guatemala

Agenda