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RedCLARA Communications and Public RedCLARA Communications and Public RelationsRelations

LA NRENs PR NetworkLA NRENs PR NetworkMaría José López PouraillyMaría José López Pourailly

RedCLARA PR and Communications ManagerRedCLARA PR and Communications Manager

TF-CPR MeetingTNC2012May 20, 2012Reykjavík, Iceland

Outline Outline

• About RedCLARA • RedCLARA Communities• Services• Communications and Public Relations• LA NRENs PR Network• CKLN

RedCLARA is RedCLARA is

PEOPLE + eInfrastructure

RedCLARA is RedCLARA is

A human and legal association + the Latin American advanced network

RedCLARA is advanced eInfrastructure RedCLARA is advanced eInfrastructure

RedCLARA is the LA Academic Network RedCLARA is the LA Academic Network

• 14 NRENs connected among themselves and with Europe, the US and the World

• Strong regional infrastructure

• NRENs organized in RedCLARA actively participate in international calls

• Dark Fiber between AR-BR-CL

• Dark Fiber between Panama and Mexico

• Gigabit links elsewhere but between Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Panamá

RedCLARA is RedCLARA is bridging geographical and bridging geographical and

digital dividedigital divide

2002 2012

Countries connected

6 14

Max. Bandwidth availability (intra LA)

45 Mbps10,000 MbpsX 222 times

Max. Bandwidth availability (extra

LA)

45 Mbps 4,500 MbpsX 100 times

Annual Cost € 1,000,000

€ 2,400,000X 2,4 times

RedCLARA is advanced eInfrastructureRedCLARA is advanced eInfrastructure

that is helping to solve big problems in LA that is helping to solve big problems in LA

ResearchRedCLARA is linking scientists to tackle

meaningfull regional problems

RedCLARA Members RedCLARA Members

• € 10 Millions budget to be provided by the EC, thru EuropeAid

• Co funding of € 2.5 Millions provided by the LA NRENs (National Research and Education Networks)

• June 2003 until March 2008• Emphasis on

– To develop a Latin American Research and Education network and connect it to Europe

– To create an institution to manage the network and provide continuity

– To train technicians

ALICE and ALICE2 ALICE and ALICE2

Collaborating and growing Collaborating and growing

• € 10 Millions budget to be provided by the EC, through EuropeAid

• Co funding of € 2.5 Millions provided by the LA NRENs (National Research and Education Networks)

• June 2003 until March 2008• Emphasis on

• To develop a Latin American Research and Education network and connect it to Europe

• To create an institution to manage the network and provide continuity

• To train technicians

• € 12 Millions budget to be provided by the EC, through EuropeAid

• Co funding of € 6 Millions to be provided by the LA NRENs

• Additional € 2.5 Millon Euros contributed by Brazil

• December 2008 until August 2012• Emphasis on

– To create an upgraded long lasting infrastructure,

– To build a sustainabilty model, – To foster the creation of MDG

Oriented applications – To works towards Inclusion– To Build technical and managerial

Capacity

Communities Communities

Thanks to the ALICE2 and IDB projects, RedCLARA is supporting the creation and development of users and research communities in two ways :

1) Human Capacity Building ; 2) LA Scientific Communities.


Human Capacity Building: CLARA-TEC + Executive TrainingCLARA-TEC: Technical WG, support by ALICE2:• GT-SCIFI | Intelligent control system wireless networks• GT- PIT VOIP | Internet Exchange Point Voice over IP• GT-MOF | Mobility wit OpenFlow • GT – Measurements• GT - MCONF| Multiconference system for the interoperable

access to Web and mobile devices• GT-IPTV• GT-DEIM-IPV6• GT-CSIRT | Computer Security Incident Response Team• GT-MobilityExecutive Training (ALICE2 and IDB support): Marketing,

Management, Projects proposals, etc.


LA Sientific Communities: identification and buildingCOMCLARA2011: Open call for research / users groups to foster

the creation of scientific / academic communities in FP7 and MDGs relevant topics, in order to receive support from RedCLARA in both technical and financial forms.

Proposals came from the following scientific areas and countries:


LA Scientific Communities: identification and buildingCOMCLARA is now supporting the following communities:1. Large Aperture Gamma Ray Bursa Observatory (LAGO, Argentina)2. Map and Programme of Arts in Digital Dance -and performance- (MAPA D2,

Brazil)3. Latin-American Community of Learning Objects (LACLO, Venezuela)4. Latin-American Community of Libraries and Digital Repositories (COLABORA,

Ecuador)5. Programme of Influenza for Central America and Panama (Influenza,

Guatemala)6. Initial Academic Training in ICT (TIC en FID, Chile)7. International Network for the Recovery of the Non-Material Inheritage of

Musical Traditions (ACHALAI, Chile)8. High Performance Scientific Computing (ICT in Grids, Colombia)9. Community of Arts and Cultura over the Network (ARCU-RED, Colombia)10. Image Processing Online Latin America (IPOL-LA, Uruguay)11. Open Latin-American Community of Learning and Social Research (CLARISE,

Mexico)12. Latin-American Community of Space Data Infrastructure (Latin IDE, Ecuador)13. Latin-American Community of Research and Knowledge Building (CLIC,

Colombia)

+ Services + Collaboration + Services + Collaboration

• RedCLARA Portal

+ Services + Collaboration + Services + Collaboration

RedCLARA Portal: Focused on Service to Communities. One stop shop for:• Services that requiere registration:

1. Webconference (VCEspresso)2. Videoconference (SIVIC)3. Conference/Seminars/Events Management (Indico)4. E-Learning System (Moodle)5. Video on Demand (RedCLARAVe)6. Large File Transfer7. Websites homing (eScaparate)8. Web 2.0: Wikis, Blogs, Photo & Video sharing9. Researchers/Funding oportunities/Partner search

• Services without registration:1. Find a project partner2. Institutions connected in LA to RedCLARA (InteliMap)3. Check out your connection (done by REUNA)4. News, agenda, bulletins, etc.

RedCLARA Communications and PR RedCLARA Communications and PR

From TNC2011 till now, we have done…• Regular updates of RedCLARA’s Portal (Spanish, Portuguese and English): contents,

projects, news (we are currently working in new updates – contents architecture + services)

• 4 editions of the DeCLARA bulletin – EN + ES + PT (http://www.redclara.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=560&lang=en)

• 26 editions of the RedCLARA Express newsletter – EN + ES + PT (http://www.redclara.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=629&Itemid=561&lang=en)

• 10 editions of the news flash: DeCLARA al día – ES (http://www.redclara.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=630&Itemid=562&lang=en)

• @LIS2 Communications Plan (in collaboration with ECLAC and REGULATEL)• @LIS2 Website: http://www.alis2.eu/• InfoDays dissemination

2011

Communications and PR Communications and PR

• New material:• Illustrated RedCLARA Topology Map updated• 5 new case studies• 2 brochures for SIVIC• RedCLARA’s brochure update• RedCLARA’s questionnaire for the Compendium of Latin

American National Research and Education Networks• Ellaboration of the Compendium (draft version in Spanish

delivered in May 12, 2012)• Posters and promotional material for ELLA project • TICAL 2011 Conference (Panama – June 2011) + website• eInfrastructure between EU and LA Conference (October

2011 – Brazil) • Interviews with regional RENs leaders• 2 RedCLARA-ALICE2 member meetings organization

(Honduras – June, uruguay – November, 2011)• ELCIRA project branding

LA NRENs PR Network LA NRENs PR Network

• 3 virtual meetings• 1 face-to-face meeting: Montevideo (Uruguay), November 7

and 8 2011• First Global Virtual Day, March 22nd 2012. The first

participation of the Caribbean network (C@ribnet, CKLN) in an international on-line event: http://2012globalday.redclara.net/en_index.html

• 2nd LA NREN PR Network Compendium


• Face-to-face meeting: Montevideo (Uruguay), November 7 and 8 2011:• Colleen Wint-Smith from CKLN (the Caribbean) participate with us! She is one of

our members – we are eager to go global!• Experience sharing• Twitter + Facebook• Case studies• 2nd LA NREN PR Network Compendium – CKLN and UbuntuNet Alliance have been

invited to add their responses in order to transform this in a more global material – what about Europe?

• First Global Virtual Day, March 22nd 2012


First Global Virtual Day, March 22nd 2012. The first participation of the Caribbean network (C@ribnet, CKLN) in an international on-line event: http://2012globalday.redclara.net/en_index.html


First Global Virtual Day “2012, end or substantial change of the world?”

• 214 people connected to the online transmission, • 11 countries around the world (9 of which were connected

to RedCLARA, plus Spain and Jamaica).• Themes ranging from the idea of an apocalypse in 2012;

natural disasters; risk scenarios from earthquakes and tsunamis in Chile, Japan and Mexico; the formation of a volcano in the Canary Islands; and disaster preparedness and emergency management.

• The audience was invited to pose questions to the experts• A fully interactive and educational global experience: Latin

America + the Caribbean + Europe.• The event marked the first time that the Caribbean network

CKLN participated in an international event by videoconference.

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FACEBOOK

First post I like Friends Publication

REDCLARA 23-nov-10 268 News, photos

GEANT 07-jun-10 206 News, photos,

posters

TERENA 23-ene-11 145 News, photos,

posters

CEDIA 27-sep-11 13 News, photos

REUNAChile 31-ene-11 no aplica News, photos

RedCONARE 20-jul-11 30 News, photos

Red RENATA 20-abr-10 1296 News, photos

CUDI 02-jul-10 57 News

RAICES 12-feb-2011 43 n/a News, photos

INTERNET2 13-ene-10 841 n/a

SURFNET n/a n/a 2152 Wikipedia

RNP_PD n/a n/a n/a n/a

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Twitter

First Tweet Followers N° of Tweets First Tweet

REDCLARA 23-nov-10 295 470 23-nov-10

GEANT 07-jun-10 145 125 07-jun-10

TERENA 19-oct-10 128 45 19-oct-10

CEDIA

REUNAChile 19-abr-10 286 769 19-abr-10

RedCONARE 20-jul-11 11 9 20-jul-11

Red RENATA 21-sep-09 2342 431 21-sep-09

CUDI 30-jun-10 109 114 30-jun-10

INTERNET2 28-mar-08 1179 480 28-mar-08

SURFNET 27-jul-09 1133 727 27-jul-09

RNP_PD 13-jul-10 150 62 13-jul-10

Happy to be part of theHappy to be part of the

LA NRENs PR NetworkLA NRENs PR Network


LA NRENs PR NetworkLA NRENs PR NetworkJulio Cardozo, RAU (Uruguay): I appreciate of our group the desire to be alwyas in touch

with each other, share things, enhance our knowledge and apply it on specific experiences in our networks. When I became a member of this group I learned to work in a more structural way about topics related to visibility and its strategies for a proper implementation.

Monica Aguilera, REUNA (Chile): What I value most is the possibility to meet us in person, to create bonds of friendship in the long term, and most of all to collaborate and share experiences, exchange knowledge and support the disemination of the work of our networks.

Laura Casasa, RedCONARE (Costa Rica): What I value the most is the creative and productive capacity of the group, taking into account the economic and development diffiiculties of the advanced networks in different countries. Besides, I love the great affection and team spirit that exists within all members. I felt welcome from the beginning. I have learned to value things that are available and to move forward with ideas and projects.


LA NRENs PR NetworkLA NRENs PR NetworkIxchel Perez RAGIE and RAICES (Guatemala and El Salvador): What I value the most is the

group's ability to unite efforts and creativity to make new things that impact most strongly in the region. Together we sound “louder” and our voices can be hear in a more powerful fashion. In addition, the collaboration to promote the activities of different countries is exceptional.

Martha Avila, CUDI (Mexico): We were able to link the activities developed in the Latin American networks, through the dissemination of events acomplishing a collaborative work among academics and researchers, a key objective of the NRENs. A good example of this was the Global Virtual Day where we join forces for the participation by videoconference and through streaming of more than 60 institutions in Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean.

Sonia Contreras, RAAP (Peru): The great value of our group is the ability of carry out collaborative work, which enabled us to strengthen the visibility of our academic networks in a national and international level, and to overcome difficulties. Being a member of the team is important because we can move forward strategically, improve our communication channels to facilitate the disemination process, and strengthen the relations of work, friendship and fellowship.


LA NRENs PR NetworkLA NRENs PR NetworkCamilo Ocazionez Jaimes, RENATA (Colombia): The Public Relations Network is vital to

the development of the RENATA communication activities as long as it makes possible to increase the visibility of the institution in the 15 countries connected to RedCLARA, plus Spain, the Caribbean and TERENA , where our network is present. For the particular case of RENATA, has also been very important as a support group for the design of collaborative strategies that will result in more accurate and efficient communication desitions. Due to the accompaniment of this network of relationships, RENATA is the academic network with more publicated news in TERENA, followed closely by CUDI ... This results in the visibility of our networks in Europe. And finally, the communications media of the Public Relations Network has been very useful to articulate the academic community of the countries.

Tania Altamirano (RedCLARA): Two heads think better than one and in this case 10 heads had meant a lot of good ideas! The results are collaborative activities, a better and efficient dissemination of the events developed in the national networks and the establishment of a human network aiming to improve and enhance the communications activities developed around the advanced networks. Was it easy? No! But the results are proving that the effort was worth it.


• What comes next?• More virtual meetings – by videoconference• Survive to the end of the ALICE2 project and…• GO GLOBAL!!!:• RedCLARA + CKLN + UbuntuNet Alliance, regional networks

aiming to collaborate between us and with the rest of the world… and tackle as a unique group the problem of teaching the final users what our networks are for!

• And talking about going global and collaboration, a few slides from CKLN:

& The Global Topology

Topology

26 million people from

21 Caribbean states

Emerging Caribbean NRENs

PHASE 1

JREN – Jamaica

BREN – Barbados

TTREN – Trinidad and Tobago

RADEI – Dominican Republic - currently the only registered NREN

OECS REN – Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

PHASE 2

Bahamas

Belize

Guyana

Suriname

Haiti

The Caribbean NREN Declaration The inaugural Assembly of NRENs meeting in

Barbados on May 3 - 4 2012, collectively welcome the formal establishment of C@ribNET as a means of linking the technical and national networks of the entire Caribbean region and for regional development.

The Declaration focused on issues of Governance, Sustainability, Applications & Shared Services and NREN Development & Community Building – this included the Development of a marketing plan which presents the value proposition for stakeholders

PR/Communications Priorities

Support for NREN Development & Visibility

Promotion of applications and shared services

Building Communities (Assembly of NRENs)

Collaborative development and sharing of content

Thanks!

Questions… could we talk about going global?

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