TICAL2017 News

Download the book "Enhancing the University of the XXI Century", launched at TICAL2017

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In what ways can universities take advantage of Big Data, the Internet of Things and mobile devices, enhancing their teaching and research? This and other relevant questions are the subject of the book "Enhancing the University of the XXI Century: ICT Solutions to Think the University of the Future", launched by RedCLARA in the framework of the TICAL2017 Conference (July 3 and 5, in San Jose, Costa Rica), and already available for download at the event website.

Videos of TICAL2017 are now available online

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The material was produced during the three days of the Conference, which was held between July 3 and 5, in San José, Costa Rica.

Presentations of TICAL2017 are now available online

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The files of the presentations shared at the plenary and parallel sessions of the TICAL2017 Conference and the Latin American e-Science Meeting, that took place from July 3 to 5 in San José, Costa Rica, are now available for download and consultation on the event site.

Pura vida! Seventh edition of TICAL, in San José, is concluded sucessfully

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The seventh edition of TICAL, the conference of the Directors of Information and Communications Technologies of the Latin American Universities, ended this Wednesday, July 5th. The event, the only driven to its public in the region, was held at the Hotel InterContinental in San José, Costa Rica, bringing together more than 300 participants from different parts of Latin America, North America and Europe.

Looking at the future without forgetting the present: Session of Young Innovators and Rectors Discussion Table highlighted on the second day of activities of TICAL2017

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The opinion of the rectors of important universities of the region on the use of ICT in the university work, as well as the development of young people using these technologies in favor of their campus marked the second day of activities at the TICAL2017 Conference, that is taking place at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica, from Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 of July, 2017.

Announcement of the new Director of RedCLARA and discussions on emerging technologies mark the first day of activities of TICAL2017

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The lectures of the ION Costa Rica Conference, organized by Internet Society, and the announcement of the new Executive Director of RedCLARA gave the tone of the first day of activities of the TICAL2017 Conference, which began this Monday, July 3, at the Intercontinental Hotel in San José, Costa Rica.

Plenary sessions of TICAL2017 will be broadcasted live

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Good news for those who will not attend the TICAL2017 Conference, which will take place between July 3 and 5, 2017, at the Intercontinental Hotel in San José, Costa Rica. The plenary sessions of the event, as well as the ION Costa Rica conference - organized by Internet Society alongside TICAL-, will be transmitted live by streaming.

Options for everyone: TICAL2017 promotes six different workshops

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To be held together with the Latin American e-Science Meeting and the ION Conference, TICAL2017 (July 3-5, San José, Costa Rica) will offer in its program six different workshops that will discuss topics such as the use of the Colaboratorio platform, IPv6 and Development Methodologies, further enriching its three days of activities.

The workshops will be given by experts in the respective areas during the second day of the Conference, July 4, between 5 and 7 pm, San José time (GMT -6), and require online registration that can be accessed through the links that are presented at the end of this note.

RedCLARA's corporate associate, Microsoft will be responsible for one of the courses, namely "The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Advanced Analytics, Cognitive Services, Open Source Software, Cloud, Trends in Education: Assembling All Pieces to Support Teaching and Digital transformation in Education", which will be taught by Gustavo Fridman, Manager of Solutions for Higher Education for Latin America and the Caribbean of Microsoft.

The purpose of the workshop is to create an interactive space for IT Directors, Rectors and Academic Directors to help them envision action paths in the midst of a new environment of profound change.

Colaboratorio, a platform developed by RedCLARA to support and promote the collaboration of scientific and academic groups, will be the subject of two other workshops, driven to users (Tools for the collaborative work of researchers and academics from all over the world) and technicians (Platform Deployment). The courses will be taught by the General Coordinator of Academic Communities of RedCLARA, Tania Altamirano, and by Carlos Gonzáles, Leader of Development Projects of the regional network, respectively.

"The user workshop seeks to present the main functionalities of the platform through a practical tour of the integrated tools. The technical one, on the other hand, will present, from the technical point of view, what is the Colaboratorio, its structure, the possibilities and requirements for the installation and the general process to guide a National Research and Education Network in the process of local deployment", says Altamirano.

The role of the manager in projects managed through the Scrum framework will also be addressed in the workshop "Agile software development with SCRUM and the role of the project manager according to PMI", which will be taught by Jorge Alvarado Zamora, from the University of Costa Rica.

There will also be two specific workshops for ICT managers: "Sharing problems and solutions" and "IPv6 for ICT managers", which shows basic concepts of IPv6, its importance in the development of the Internet and business cases where IPv6 is shown as the best solution from the technical and business point of view for the problem of address shortage.

Participation in the courses is restricted to those registered in TICAL2017. To register and get more information, visit the workshop pages.

Microsoft Workshop: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/807
Development methodologies Workshop: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/808/
IPv6 Workshop: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/809/
ICT Directors Workshop: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/810/
Colaboratorio Users workshop: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/811/
Colaboratorio Technicians Workshop: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/812/

For more information on TICAL2017, visit: http://tical2017.redclara.net/index.php

Wouter Los: “TICAL may trigger improvement of university ICT in Latin America”

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Originally educated in theoretical and physical chemistry, Wouter Los entered in biology and has never left it. Interested in e-BioSciencie and data science, Dr. Los is the director of the Zoological Museum (Institute for Systematics and Population Biology) at the University of Amsterdam, participating in several European and global initiatives with respect to information technology in systematic biology. In July, Los will be one of the main speakers at TICAL Conference, sharing his experience with the latinamerican ICT directors. In this interview, he tells us a litlle on his expectations.