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Sharing the ISTEC experience: 15 years, over 25 countries; strategic alliance among academia, industry, government

agencies, and multilateral organizations

Dr. Ramiro Jordán

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Why New Mexico? New Mexico

• 5th largest state, rural• Large concentration of scientists (National Labs)• Strong ties with LAC and Iberian Peninsula• Diversity = innovation + creativity: over 20 pueblos

Attitude Change• Act locally think globally• Industry-university relations• DD … to … DO IT!• R&D into the classroom• Multicultural, multidisciplinary, multilingual, multi….• Community development• Culture• Access and connectivity (NM GigaPop)• Content• From the laboratory to the marketplace

ISTEC


Reasons for Creating ISTEC

Lack of current information for planning and developing technology

Lack of expertise in the use of information Lack of international cooperation in developing the critical

mass needed for projects and joint efforts Lack of interaction among academia, productive sector,

governments and international agencies Lack of availability of technology for social, cultural , and

economic development

CREATE A GATEWAY FOR INFORMATION, RESEARCH, EDUCATION, and ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE

IBEROAMERICAN REGION

Content, connectivity, software, policies, scalability, integration, languages, hardware, culture


Process (1990)

Explored Opportunities

Identified Obstacles

Developed Recommedations

ISTEC was born


ISTEC & MISSION

To foster scientific, engineering, and technology education To Promote joint international research and development efforts

among its members in the Ibero American Region To provide a cost-effective vehicle for the application and transfer

of technology (creation of wealth)

ISTEC is a non-profit organization comprised of educational, research, industrial, government agencies, and multilateral

organizations throughout the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula.

Mission


CONCLUSIONS RESTRUCTURING COMMITTEE

ISTEC’S 10-year VISION

ISTEC will be a vehicle to advance socio-economic and educational change for the creation of new wealth and

improvement of the quality of life in Iberoamerica.

ISTEC será un medio que promueva el desarrollo socioeconómico y educativo, para crear bienestar social,

generar riqueza y mejorar la calidad de vida en Iberoamérica.

ISTEC será um veículo para promover o avanco sócio-econômico e educacional, para criar o bem estar social,

gerar riqueza e melhorar a qualidade de vida na Iberoamérica.


ISTEC’S NEW MISSION:

ISTEC’s members and stakeholders (academia, industry, governments, and non-governmental organizations) will:

• Advance the state of higher education• Promote integration between local and international accreditation

and certification initiatives in academia and industry• Create a forum to encourage joint international research and

development• Provide tools, knowledge and environment for entrepreneurship• Provide a cost-effective vehicle for technology transfer.

To accomplish this, ISTEC will create an organization that is flexible, self-sustaining, transparent and effective, and will

be responsible for carrying out the mission.

CONCLUSIONS RESTRUCTURING COMMITTEE


Digital Library Linkages (DLL)

InformationTechnology

Los Libertadores (LL)

R&D Laboratories (R&D)

Advanced ContinuingEducation (ACE)

Istec Initiatives


ISTEC Structure

R&D DLL LL ACE

Exec. Office (Albuquerque, NM, USA)

General Assembly

Board of Directors

> 130 members


Industrial Partners


Honorary Members and Int’l Collaborators


ISTEC Facts

ISTEC has over 130 active members both in the IEEE Section 8 and 9 ISTEC coordinates over 15 events per year ISTEC coordinates IT Challenge forums to create awareness, analyze

existing IT models and develop an IT regional agenda ISTEC has over 70 libraries sharing information in real time within the

ISTEC Digital Library Linkage Initiative (around 12,000 documents transferred annually within the DLL network)

ISTEC has fostered the development of five regional information networks (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina)

Bringing the benefits of technology to people everywhere…

TRUST: transparency, efficiency, effectiveness, professionalism, competitiveness, knowledge


ISTEC Facts

ISTEC has served as catalyzer to promote strategic alliances between Academia, Industry, and Government to incentive social, cultural, political and economic development

ISTEC promotes scientific development by being sensitive to the region’s own cultural and social differences

Promote up-to-date curricula development through forums, seminars, and independent consulting to standardize engineer and science programs

ISTEC has created over 172 DSP labs in the region (these facilities are mostly in the area of digital signal processing, microcontrollers, and embedded systems)

Promoting development of technology in developing countries

TRUST: transparency, efficiency, effectiveness, professionalism, competitiveness, knowledge


NAFTAMercosulMercosul + 1 Non-members of OMC

Prospective OMC members

Integrating first, then negotiating


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Mission: The Digital Library Linkages Initiative (DLL) creates and supports projects in Digital Information (DI), Knowledge Management (KM), and Digital Libraries (DL) as essential components of science, technology and medical (STM) education, research, and policy design. Programs: Rapid Electronic Document Delivery project (REDD) Working with vendors to explore possibilities for Consortial

purchases Library and Information Science skills and leadership

development Digital library skill and manpower development

Digital Library Linkage (DLL)


Goal: This initiative seeks to increase the number of qualified individuals in applicable areas, and it involves curriculum adaptation, design and enhancement, professional development, accreditation, on-site training, web based distance learning, as well as non-traditional faculty, staff, and student exchange programs.

Internationalization!!!

Advanced Continued Education (ACE)

Programs: Dual degree graduate programs (MS, PhD) between universities.

• UNM-ECE: UNICAMP, UVI, others

• Recruitment: undergraduate, graduate


Goal: The ISTEC R&D Laboratories Initiative tackles regional problems such as the lack of current information and resources for planning and developing technology, lack of international cooperation in developing the critical mass needed for projects and joint efforts, and lack of interaction between universities and industries.

Research and Development (R&D)

Programs: joint R&D, entrepreneurship

• 172 laboratories with Motorola

• other facilities with Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel Networks, National Instruments, Xilinx, others


Goal: Creates virtual centers of excellence, linking New Mexico to Latin America, using advanced information technology to enhance the value of science and technology as the basis for economic, social, cultural and political development

Los Libertadores

Programs:

Promotes the creation of a network of Centers of Excellence. These Centers of Excellence serve as a hemispheric backbone for academic R&D purposes, telecommunications services, computing facilities, and teaching stations

Provides researchers, educators, policy makers, the private sector, and scientific administrators real time access to a worldwide system of expertise and knowledge

Promotes collaboration and dialogue among government policy makers, community stake-holders, electrical engineers and computer engineers regarding application of IT to solving practical and development problems.


New Mexico has an abundance of science & technology (S&T) resources in many areas. Iberia and Latin America have close ties to NM and also are large developing markets. ISTEC wants to leverage its solid relationships and focus the new initiative on a two-way exchange of S&T, human capabilities, capital, product development and in the final analysis economic development that helps all parties. Iberia and Latin America can also bring resources to the commercialization effort.

Los Libertadores

HOW CAN WE DO IT!


e-services DL R&DSpecial ToolsTechnology

References

Univ. = UniversityGov = GovernmentMult = Multilateral OrganizationsInd = IndustriesO = Others

DE = Distance EducationDL = Digital LibraryIP = Intellectual Propriety

DE Capital/Funding

References

Univ. = UniversityGov = GovernmentMult = Multilateral OrganizationsInd = IndustriesO = Others

DE = Distance EducationDL = Digital LibraryIP = Intellectual Propriety

IP

Los Libertadores Gateway

UNIV. UNIV 2 UNIV 3

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CREATE A NETWORK FOR ECON., SOC., POL. & CULT DEVELOPMENT USING IT


Current Projects

Latin American GRIDLAC: Developing a Latin American effort to create a Latin American GRID to support biomedical research, MEMS, and nanotechnology

Science and Technology Entrepreneurship for Economic Development (SEED): seeks to build on the strength of ISTEC and combine NM's capabilities in S&T and technology commercialization to partner with Ibero-American universities, government agencies and businesses to build new organizations that blend business expertise and technical knowledge to benefit the economic development activities in Ibero-America, New Mexico and the US. These activities require the participation of engineering schools, business colleges, government, research laboratories and funding groups. Together we can build a

better economic climate based on technology commercialization. First meeting of this group is being planned in November 2005 in Sao Paulo, Brazil


Current Projects

TeleSalud: Developing a network of doctors and engineering professors to support research and development to bridge the digital divide in the area of health. Members of this cluster: USF, Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela, Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial, Ecuador, UNM Center for Telehealth, among others

Information Communication for Social Development (ICTSD): Encourage and develop ways to implement ICTs to support a bottom-up approach to social, cultural, economic, and political development

C3=communications, computing, culture


IT for Social Change “Bridging the Digital Divide in New Mexico and Building Partnership for Sustainable Community Development And Empowerment through Information Technology and Education”

New Approach for NM: Bridging the Digital Divide


Think Locally


Act Globally


Case Studies


IT Challenges

Motorola 5 year commitment Background During IX ISTEC General Assembly held in Ft. Lauderdale, FL in

November 1999, Motorola launched the IT Challenge for Ibero-America. The challenge is to analyze the needs, strengths and expectations of governments, academia, and private sector and to define an agenda in Information Technology (IT) as a catalyst for social and economic development for the next decade (2000-2010). Dr. Terry Heng, Vice-President of Motorola, presented the IT Challenge committing $500,000 for the next five years (2000-2004).

Objective The objective is to sponsor conferences, workshops and forums with the

participation of high-ranking government officials, academia, industry and international organizations to create awareness, analyze existing IT models in other regions, develop an IT agenda, and obtain commitments to implement an IT plan for the next decade. The agenda will address issues such as the automated process for production, e-commerce, e-government, distance employment and education, S&T policies, IP protection, social and cultural values, health, strategic alliances, and universal access to information.


Knowledge Management

Consortia Purchasing Options:• Individual Reduced Pricing: price per organization less

than buying on your own• Group Price: price for a minimum number of

participants. Individual price is decided among members

• Regional Pricing Scheme: a set price for a region where every additional member reduces the price for existing members

• Regional Resell Pricing: same as above but administered by a Consortium like ISTEC. Allows more flexibility in pricing.


Knowledge Management

Democratize the access to high quality scientific information Complete integration with local resources Common Bibliographic Entry with links to full text resources

where they exist Unlimited access to databases


Thomson - Gale

BUSINESS CASE (HH, SS, S&E):•$15.1 million / 2,500 institutions = $6,048.42 per year per institution.•$15.1 million / 12.2 million students and Faculty = $1.24 per year per student and per faculty.

Analyzed at the institutional level orFTE level, this is an unprecedented deal!

Create “lock-ins”, Consortia


Strategic Alliances

Intranets/WEBX Sun Microsystems Hewlett-Packard Intel Microsoft Khoral Research IEEE-ABET-DL Nortelnetworks Motorola National Instruments CEOexpress Xilinx

AMD Texas Instruments CEITEC (Brazil) LNNE (Mexico) COE-UDEM CAF, OAS, IDB iGate -BPL Brightstar Thomson - Gale Los Alamos Mobiletec YIP, Webfonepartners (VoIP)


Ibero-American Center for Advanced Electronics Technology

Ibero-American Center for Advanced Electronics Technology

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GOVERNMENT OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL STATE

CITY OF PORTO ALEGRE

PUCRS Univ. UFRGS Univ


A set of strategic actions and investments aiming at the goals:

CMOS Integrated Circuit Prototyping facility (first submicron CMOS in Latin America).

Infrastructure for advanced electronics technology.

Focusing on the attraction and creation of new strategic technology enterprises.

Strong R&D partnership with companies worldwide.

C E I T E C


Focus on Partnerships

Government Companies

Universities

CEITECCEITEC


Case Studies

These are concrete examples of

creating opportunities


New Models - ISTEC

University-Industry Relations. Why? Access to pre-competitive research Early warning of potential technology breakthroughs Pursue industry-relevant research Access to high-skill resources Conduit for intellectual creativity Branding and market development Long-term partnerships Curricula development Accreditation Internationalization


Recommendations


NAFTAMercosulMercosul + 1 Non-members of OMC

Prospective OMC members

Integrate first, negotiate second


Contact Information

We believe the ISTEC Model will help in bridging the Digital Divide that afflicts all nations. This divide can be transformed

into Digital Opportunities with Information Technology and TRUST

(DD… to… DO IT!!!)

Obrigado, Gracias, Merci, Thank Youwww.istec.org


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DD … to … DO IT!!!!

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