Ckln presentacion t&t

Oct. 10,2011

CKLN - Trinidad and Tobago´s workshop on appropriation

Martha Giraldomigiraldo@gmail.com

“NETWORKING”

The solutions to most of the world´s problems must be addressed – in collaboration– among interdisciplinary teams– as global projects, addressing local and regional

information and participation

“NETWORKING”

e-SCIENCE, e-LEARNING, e-CULTURE, e-INNOVATION

Thanks to the advanced academic networks, institutions are not limited to the usage of their local resources for developing their projects: human resources, processing

capacity, storage capacity, remote labs. and instruments, …

are now available.

The boundaries are those of the world itself.

The key words are “collaboration” and “alliances”

CKLNCaribbean Knowledge Learning Network

CKLN's strategic objective is to enhance global competitiveness of the Caribbean by upgrading and diversifying the skills and knowledge of human resources in the region through greater regional collaboration and connectivity.

RENATA AND CLARA

RENATA

The advanced collaboration platform

for developingeducation, research,

innovation and culture.

RENATA CorporationPrivate, mixed entity, not for profit, created in May 2007 with the

participation of:

Government: Government:

Ministry of Comunications Ministry of Education Colciencias

Academy: • 8 Regional Networks

RIESCAR

RENATA – IS A MEMBER OF RED CLARA

CLARA Partners (ALICE2)

ArgentinaBoliviaBrasilChileColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaMéxicoPanamáPerúUruguayVenezuela

CubaHondurasNicaraguaParaguay

EspañaFranciaItaliaPortugalDANTE (UK)

RedCLARA June 2011

Porto Alegre

ALICE2

CLARA

RNP

AmLight

www.redclara.net

Asia-Pacifico

AUSTRALIA (AAIREP)CHINA (CERNET,CSTNET,NSFCNET)HONG KONG (HARNET)JAPAN (SINET,WIDE,JGN2)KOREA (KREONET2)SINGAPORE (SINGAREN) )PHILIPPINES (PREGINET)TAIWAN (TANET2,ASNET)THAILAND (UNINET,THAISARN)

Americas

RED CLARACEDIA (Ecuador)CUDI (Mexico)RAGIE (Guatemala)RAICES (El Salvador)RAAP (Perú)RAU (Uruguay)REACCIUN (Venezuela)RENATA (Colombia)REUNA (Chile)RETINA (Argentina)RNP (Brasil)REDCYT (Panama)

INTERNET2 (EEUU)CANARIE (Canadá)

Europa-Medio Oriente

AUSTRIA (ACONET)BELGIUM (BELNET)CROATIA (CARNET)CZECH REPUBLIC (CESNET)CYPRUS (CYNET)DENMARK (Forskningsnettet)ESTONIA (EENET)FINLAND (FUNET)FRANCE (RENATER)GERMANY (G-WIN)GREECE (GRNET)HUNGARY (HUNGARNET)ICELAND (RHNET)IRELAND (HEANET)ISRAEL (IUCC)ITALY (GARR)LATVIA (LATNET)LITHUANIA (LITNET)LUXEMBOURG (RESTENA)MALTA (UNIV. MALTA)NETHERLANDS (SURFNET)NORWAY (UNINETT)POLAND (POL-34)PORTUGAL (FCCN)QATAR (QATAR FOUNDATION)ROMANIA (ROEDUNET)

Asia Central

ARMENIA (ARENA)GEORGIA (GRENA)KAZAKHSTAN (KAZRENA)TAJIKISTAN (TARENA)UZBEKISTAN (UZSCI)

RUSSIA (RBNET)SLOVAKIA (SANET)SLOVENIA (ARNES)SPAIN (REDIRIS)SWEDEN (SUNET)SWITZERLAND (SWITCH)UNITED KINGDOM (JANET)TURKEY (ULAKBYM)*CERNDANTE (Europe)NORDUnet (Nordic Countries)TERENA (Europe)

Africa

ALGERIA (CERIST)EGYPT (EUN/ENSTIN)MOROCCO (CNRST)TUNISIA (RFR)SOUTH AFRICA (TENET)

RENATA is conected to the world wide

academic networks ~90

Interesting facts about RENATA

• Started operatios in 2.007 : almost last (12/13) country to get connected to CLARA.

• “Best research national portal”, years 2.009, 2.010 and out of contest 2.011. • 2.010: OAS stated RENATA as one of the big players

within acadmic networks in LA with Brasil, Chile and Argentina.

• RENATA is included in about six national policies (CT&I, ICT, Ministry of Education, Competitivenes …)

Interesting facts about RENATA

RENATA´s • Executive Director – member of CLARA´s Board of Diretors

and President of it in 2.009.• Communications Manager – member of RedCLARA´s

communications and public relations comission .• Academic Manager – member of RedCLARA´s applications

comittee .• Technical Manager - member of Red CLARA´s technical

comission and videoconferencing group establishing an Operation Center for all countries in LA. IPV6 recognized national expert.

RENATA´s connected institutions

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Research Centers 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 8

Hospitals 0 3 2 1 4 1 0 2 13

Libraries and museums 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2

TOTAL 28 25 17 13 23 8 16 13 143

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RENATA community

Infrastructure:RENATA network

CORPORACIÓNRENATA

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International networks

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SubdirecciónFinanciera

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Comité de Comunicaciones

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RENATA’sOrganization Chart

Cursos especializados

GRID Colombia

BDCOL

Activities and Servicies

Activities/services – Call for proposals

• Financing projects that take advantage of the Academic Network:Year # projects2006 132009 272010 102011 10

• Thematic encounters (2008)• Dissemination of the financed projects

(www.renata.edu.co)

Comunicaciones presenciales integradas - MCU- Multi Point Unit Control

Videoconferencing

Virtual Office (webconference tool)

Activities - Technical training

Subject 2009 2010 2011 Total Advanced Routing 42 80 167 289 Network security 80 0 0 80 Introducing IPv6 and IPV6 services 23 80 153 256 Technical training 140 97 0 237 Total 285 312 320 917

Academic TrainingCapacitaciones CURSO 2009 2010 2011 BDCOL - 40 219 130

Grid Colombia 33 151 24

Curso básico RENATA (introducción, VC, oficina virtual)

80 367 57

How to write Competitive Research Projects (CLARA)

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Curso básico técnico de RENATA- Redes regionales

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Virtual Objects for learning --- 100 ---

Services/Activities

• Biannual international e-science Seminar• Support of projects

– BDCOL – Open access repositories– Grid Colombia – Distributed processing capacities

• Support of Communities– Health– Research– Culture

• Scientific magazine “e-colabora” (two editions) http://publicaciones.renata.edu.co/index.php/RCEC/issue/archive

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Aug.2011 173 421 508 171 11 203.052 1.117 731 1283 7736

2010 292 356 529 119 10 315.450 4.895 477 733 13857

2009 212 156 221 57 10 185.032 5.766 0 0 0

2008 76 44 99 13 4 170.752 4.895 0 0 0

Total 734 897 1258 325 32 845.895 16.673 1208 2016 21593

Signed alliances

• RedCOLSI – (org. For seed researchers)• OUI – Interamerican Organization of

Universities• Ópera Oberta (Barcelona´s Liceum)• Zoom - (Universities´ TV Channel)• Futura Networks, Campus Party (to engage

ICT youngsters)• CUDI – Mexican NREN

CLARA´s services and projects

CLARA´s Services- RedCLARA’s Portal

Funding Database

Looking for

partners

User Communities and Research Projects

• A set of research communities (researchers, educators, students) working together in the solution of problems related to the MDG goals and actively participating in ALFA & FP7 calls.

RedCLARA Communities1. LACXSER (LAtinoamerican Colaboratory

 of eXperimental Software Engineering Research)

2. ReLANS (Red Latinoamericana de Nanotecnología y Sociedad)

3. MAYA (Red de Microorganismos, Agricultura y Alimentos)

4. MCISur (Manejo Costero Integrado del Cono Sur)

5. LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst Observatory)

6. MAPA D2 (Mapa e Programa de artes em danca digital)

7. LACLO (Latin American Community of Learning Objects)

8. CoLaBoRa (Comunidad Latinoamericana de Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales)

9. URDIMBRE (Research of the impact of TIC in education)

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1. LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst Observatory)

2. MAPA D2 (Mapa e Programa de artes em danca digital)

3. LACLO (Latin American Community of Learning Objects

4. CoLaBoRa (Comunidad Latinoamericana de Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales) 

5. FLU‐CAP Programa de Influenza para Centroamérica y Panamá

6. TIC en FID Formación Docente Inicial7. ACHALAI Red internacional de recuperación del

patrimonio inmaterial de tradiciones musicales8. Grid Computación Científica y de Alto Rendimiento9. ARCU-RED Comunidad de arte y cultura en la red10. IPOL-LA Image Processing Online Latin America

11. CLARISE Comunidad Latinoamericana Abierta Regional de Investigación Social y Educativa

12. Latin IDE Comunidad Latinoamericana de Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales

13. CLIC Comunidad Latinoamericana de Investigación y Construcción de Conocimiento

ComCLARA2011

ComCLARA2010

ESO Paranal Optical Observatory• Very Large Telescope located near

Antofagasta in Chile• VLT Interferometer

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

ALMA: Atacama Large Milimeter Array

San Pedro de AtacamaStorage & Processing

Chajnantor 5000mts

Global High Speed Academic Networks

G-REUNAEurope, Japan, US Computing Facilities

Vancouver & Other Data

Development f a Federated Network of Institutional Repositories for Scientific

Documentation in Latin America.

• Objectives:– Making available the produced information for researchers– Giving visibility to Latin American scientific production,

• Partners: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Perú, Venezuela.

• Executing Agency: CLARA - Cooperación Latinoamericana de Redes Avanzadas.

• Financing Sources: $US 986.465 (IDB: US$632.180)• Execution time: 4 años• Type of Proyect: RPG, Regional Public Good.

Grid initiative

GISELA

• E- Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America

• Grid Computing - among LA and Europe institutions.

• Human network working on grids, e-science and e-infrastructure

RENATA PROJECTS FROM OUR CALLS

Financed by Colciencias and Ministry of Education

12 Universities (interest of 20 more)

60 machines International relations with world

class grids: OSG (USA): support in education GISELA: members of the FP/ project

(EELA, CIEMAT, EGEE Europe) PRAGMA (Asia-Pacífico): invited to

participated in their forums In joint work with the National

Bioinformatics Center just created inColombia with the support of Colciencias and MINTIC.

Distributed processing and storage capacities

Colombian Digital Library (BDCOL)

Colombian Network of Repositories and Digital Libraries indexing the scientific, and academic production of tertiary institutions, libraries, research centers, among others.

75.000 documents, 50 institutions and more being trained to develop and upload their repositories.

Access from a unique site (www.bdcol.org)

BDCOL

IAP• InterAcademy Panel for International Issues (IAP) is an

international network of Academies of Sciences founded in 1993.

• “Open Access to Scientific Literature and other Digital Scientific Information Resources in Central America, the Caribbean and Africa: Focus on Health Education and Sustainable Development ", program developed in 2008-2010.

• Promotes programs that increase access to digital resources of scientific information.

• Led by the National Academy of Sciences (U.S. NAS) in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Senegalese Academy of Sciences and Technologies (ASTS).

“Virtual Education based in interactive televisión to support learning distance processes””

Universidad del Cauca – Universidad del Valle – Universidad de Oviedo

Apoyar procesos educativos a distancia en el programa de Tecnología Agroindustrial ofrecido por la Universidad del Cauca a través del uso de educación virtual soportada en la combinación de tecnologías innovativas de televisión interactiva con la infraestructura y los servicios de la red RENATA.

“Distributed laboratory with remote access for robotic experimentation”

Universidad del Quindío - Universidad del Valle

Concebir e implementar un laboratorio distribuido de acceso remoto a través de la Red Colombiana de Datos de Nueva Generación RENATA para la experimentación en robótica, basado en una arquitectura cliente - servidor y constituido por una plataforma móvil estándar tipo Pioneer 3DX (Universidad del Valle), un manipulador Mitsubishi RV-2AJ (Universidad del Quindío) y una estructura de información para el control o supervisión de los robots por varios usuarios

“Disposable and interoperable biological data and contolled languages”

UT Universidad Nacional – Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

Hacer disponibles e interoperables datos biológicos de alta calidad y permitir su uso a través de redes, como apoyo a los procesos de investigación, educación y desarrollo y al fortalecimiento de nuestra capacidad de cooperación interinstitucional.

“Colombian storms information network. Phase I: Pilot project in Bogotá, Medellín and Manizales”

UT Universidad Nacional – Universidad de Antioquia

Conformar una red de información en tiempo real de actividad eléctrica atmosférica basada en el uso de la red RENATA con sistemas de medición indirecta instalados en Bogotá, Medellín y Manizales.

“Virtual Wind Tunnel”

EAFIT – Uniandes – Universidad de Alberta (Canada)

Construir un software e infraestructura de hardware que permita la experimentación científica en un entorno colaborativo virtual sobre simulaciones complejas de CFD .

“Information services based in colombian cultural heritage, Gold Museum Case”

Universidad de los Andes, Banco de la República, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - sede Manizales, Universidad de Alberta

Desarrollo de un ambiente distribuido sobre Renata para la consulta de reproducciones de alta calidad de algunas piezas del Museo del Oro, con el objeto de soportar labores de investigación.

“Recovering data system from a histological image bank”

Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Bogotá - Politécnico Grancolombiano - Centro Internacional de Física - CIF

desarrollar un sistema de recuperación de imágenes histológicas que permita realizar consultas de forma eficiente y precisa sobre el contenido de las imágenes, para dar apoyo a procesos de investigación y docencia.

4 tejidos analizados de 4 órganos diferentes 20.000 imágenes capturadas analizadas y digitalizadas Modelo de indexamiento de imágenes Sistema de información que permita la carga, búsqueda y comparación de imágenes Sistema de información articulado a la red RENATA

“Mantis-GRID: A platform for managing DICOM medical images “

Eafit – CES – Mayo Clinic (USA) - EIA

Es una infraestructura basada en tecnologías GRID para acceder y compartir repositorios distribuidos de imágenes médicas DICOM e información asociada, que permitirá apoyar la investigación colaborativa en el área biomédica.

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“Mantis-GRID: Managing odontologic images”Eafit – CES – Universidad del Cauca - EIA

Es una infraestructura basada en tecnologías GRID para acceder y compartir repositorios distribuidos de imágenes odontológicas.

“An e-learning Management System (LMS) over a cluster infrastructure using RENATA”

Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Universidad del RosarioSistema de E-Learning por medio de Clusters Computacionales sobre la Red Académica de Alta velocidad Nacional RENATA enfocado al proceso de enseñanza en salud en la temática de análisis de movimiento humano.

“Pathologists prediction using High Resolution Images of on-line virtual microscopy” Universidad Nacional de Bogotá - UIS

Formular, implementar y validar un sistema para la navegación eficiente de megaimágenes ubicadas en servidores remotos mediante la predicción de los patrones de comportamiento de los patólogos en tareas de exploración diagnóstica sobre placas virtuales de histopatología.

NEXT activity : Services/applications/projects list

1. Make a list of the applications, services or projects of major interest.2. Prioritize. 3. For each one, define where you consider they should be offered? CKLN?, NRENs?, institutions?.

NEXT activity : Services/applications/projects list

Let´s separate the initiatives into four groups (*) :

• Applications and services – Communications (*) – VC, IPtelephony…– Support services (*) – training, – Sharing Resources (*) – human, contents, instruments,…

• Projects– Supporting CARICOM´s strategies.– Specific areas: health, education, climate, culture,

agriculture, Bio´s, social sciences, astronomy,… (*)– Institutional interests

Ideas of projects (Martha Giraldo)• Astronomy – capturing and transmitting images -

Picture taken in Barbados Island by the British Damian Peach. It shows Jupiter´s flux of gases and two of its´ satellites. http://noticias.latam.msn.com/co/fotogaleria_bbc.aspx?cp-documentid=30775053&page=1

• Colaboration with CLARA or with any of its associated countries once identified project opportunities.

• What if CKLN or its NREN’s prepare a collaboation project to give english classes to LatinAmerican students and viceversa (spanish)?

Some recommendations

CKLN

CKLN and its members, should conduct the process for making C@ribNET the main base tool for developing CARICOM strategies and plans,– Taking advantage of the new possibilities

/opportunities – Knowing that “unity is strength”. Globalization is real. – Empowering democracy, equity and development for

the Carribbean.– Forge competitiveness of the region.

• How should CARICOM countries be organized as NRENs in order to help the process?

• Where will the economies of scale, budgets, human resources be allocated?

• How will solidarity, equity be adressed?• Should you have different types of NRENs?

(*) Picture taken from Blue Prints study (Telecom Telematique)

BUT…

Recommendations, points of view

– CKLN is different from CLARA – You have CARICOM´s opportunity. LA doesn´t have such an organism. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS!!.

– CKLN is different from RENATA. Although it works with 8 local REN´s , it serves a country.

• Pave your own road, take advantage of other initiatives, find the opportunities and the ways collaborate.

Recommendations, points of view

• CKLN have the conditions for developing a Caribbean Knowledge Learning Network. That is the goal. I don´t know any other networks committed into that. ( It is much more than a network that supports knowledge, learning…)

• There are already important studies done for the Caribbean (Blue prints, ICT4Development, etc.) and has funded a lot of regional collaboration and consultation initiatives. Communication and colaboration instruments were lacking pieces. Take this initiatives into real consideration, get organized, plan and pave the road.

Recommendations, points of view

• Don´t expect short term results.

• CKLN can do a leap frog. (???).

• Continue your important efforts related to the use of the infrastructure for improving learning and teaching processes as well as distance education.

Final recommendation

• Each one of you should promote an activity within the personnel of your institution, puting them to think on how to take advantage of the opportunities behind this new infrastructure and services?

• For innovation, research, education and culture?

THANK YOU !

Martha I. Giraldo

migiraldo@