Bulletin n° 52 March 2018

TICAL2018 and 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting: Back to Cartagena!

RedCLARA and RICAP sign agreement to create cooperation mechanisms

Chile inaugurates the first stretch of its high speed optical network

Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas Edition María José López Pourailly Contents

Contents María José López Pourailly Luiz Alberto Rasseli

Translation into Portuguese A clear path for your data Luiz Alberto Rasseli Graphic design: We empower your research and developments Marcela González Garfias

Press Contact: Editorial María José López Pourailly 4 Communications and Public Relations Manager 6 In continuous evolution: RedCLARA introduces its new brand image and website [email protected] (+56) 2 2584 86 18 # 504 TICAL2018 and 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting: Back to Cartagena! Avenida del Parque 4680-A 8 Edifico Europa, oficina 108 Ciudad Empresarial William Confalonieri, Deakin University’s Chief Digital Officer, Australia: "Information Huechuraba 12 technologies will cause a total disruption in the university model" Santiago, CHILE Martin Hilbert: “Most individuals of the human species entrust their lives to Artificial 17 Intelligence every day”

22 RedCLARA and RICAP sign agreement to create cooperation mechanisms 24 Chile inaugurates the first stretch of its high speed optical network 26 Researchers from Chilean universities developed a method for predicting earthquakes 28 In the framework of BELLA: First 100 Gb/s link of the IPê network starts operating

System collects data to minimize climate change 30 impact on the Amazon

32 New international 100 Gb/s connections are activated in Fortaleza and Chile 34 BELLA Project offers free courses on optical networks and networks defined by software

Towards Open Science: LA Referencia presented its new policies of scientific data at 36 international event in Rio 38 Agenda

3 Editorial

Since the first edition of Since its inception, RedCLARA has experienced great New alliances, the sustainable growth of our backbone and brilliant moments, such as the success of the and use cases that reflect how the capabilities of our DeCLARA, in April 2005, infrastructure projects ALICE and ALICE2, that gave RedCLARA and its member networks are effectively we have undergone many birth to our backbone, its collaborative projects offering development opportunities for science changes. Some of them were -ELCIRA and MAGIC-, and the approval of the BELLA and collaborative work in our region, are some of just external, just "makeup", programme and all that it will bring not only to the themes we want to share with you through this Latin America but also to the cooperation of our bulletin. like the six different graphic continent with Europe and the rest of the world. I would also like to highlight the material on TICAL2018 designs that this bulletin We have also experienced difficult times, especially and the 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting that with regard to the financial aspect; how many times has had during these 13 will take us back to the wonderful Cartagena, in have we sweat with the word 'sustainability'!. More September. Meet William Confalonieri and Martin years. Others, however, were recently, we also had the departure of some important Hilbert, two of the international speakers invited fundamental. And it's because members of this family with continental dimensions: to share their experiences on digital transformation Florencio Utreras and Carmen Gloria Labbé, who were of these and all those years within the university and sociopolitical framework. in charge of producing this Executive Director (since the formation of the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks, until So we started the year 14 of DeCLARA, with winds newsletter - the first in the June 2017) and Deputy General Manager (2011-2017), of change and renewal, with new goals and dreams, digital magazine format respectively. Yes, we have lived ups and downs, but and above all with you, with you all! Thank you! Thank among the advanced networks we have always left those "downs" with a renewed you to everyone for all these years, thank you for María José strength and a great desire to grow and fight for always accompanying us on this high flight that is our environment - that I took intercontinental and transcontinental collaboration. scientific, technological, educational and innovation the decision of writing this communities in Latin America. López Pourailly Much of that strength and of the value that we give editorial, the first one written Communications to change is reflected in these pages, and it would and Public Relations Manager by its editor in all these years. be impossible to have something different when we see the new spirit that Luis Eliécer Cadenas, our RedCLARA Executive Director since August 2017, brought to the organization. Seeking to reflect this new moment, we face the mission of renewing our brand and modernizing our website, not only with regard to what is aesthetic, but mainly in what concerns to our speech, vision and recognition of the content needs of our members. This is one of the most transversal issues in this edition of DeCLARA.

5 In continuous evolution RedCLARA introduces its new brand image and website Luiz Alberto Rasseli

www.redclara.net at 2018-03-27

The last step of this process was presented this Wednesday, Almost 15 years have passed March 28th, with the launch of the renewed RedCLARA logo and since the creation of the Latin its new website, result of a long work held together by different areas of RedCLARA’s work team and its member networks. The American Cooperation of Advanced result can be seen at the usual web address: www.redclara.net. Networks, RedCLARA, during this "This is an important moment for RedCLARA, it started with period the network advanced in the arrival of Luis Eliécer Cadenas, our Executive Director, and continued with the new institutional focus centered on the its mission of strengthen the member networks and our services. From the point of view development of science, education, of communications, we understand that all this must also be reflected in tour brand", says María José López, Communications culture and innovation in Latin and Public Relations Manager of RedCLARA.

America through the innovative As for the logo, the option was to modernize it, maintaining the use of advanced networks and distinctive isotype (the terrestrial globe with the Latin American profile inserted in it) and updating the colors to reflect what consolidated as institution. In this RedCLARA is and does. From the red and black of the old logo, context, RedCLARA's growth must the brand now features orange and blue tones, representing be reflected in the evolution of its energy and communication, respectively. institutional brand and website, The new website, in turn, represents an improvement to show even more clearly the services and projects developed by the in accordance to the advances of regional network, such as Colaboratorio, the TICAL Conference technology and the events that and the BELLA project. Above all, it seeks to highlight the central relevance of the member networks. The new design marked the institution's history. offers simpler, direct and intuitive navigation, keeping features of the old site such as the English and Portuguese versions and the access to weekly news content. The mobile version follows the same parameters. Evolution of the RedCLARA logo

www.redclara.net at 2018-05-09

6 7 TICAL2018 and 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting: Back to Cartagena!

It was July 2013 and the third edition of TICAL was at full steam in the Colombian Caribbean. For its beauty, Cartagena de Indias already dazzled us, but what left us with remarkable memories of the event was not only the beauty and joy of living that are typical of the Open until June 11, the calls of TICAL2018 and 2nd Latin Caribbean, but the fact that we had managed to double the number American e-Science Meeting are individual and different from of participants in relation to 2012, from 200 to 415 assistants. At each other. This is due to the different audiences to which they that moment, we had a certainty: TICAL was consolidating. are driven, to the thematic lines they propose and, above all, to the approach they give to the subject of digital transformation - TICAL treats it from the view of Higher Education, and the But if that thing that the tango says is right, "20 years is nothing", e-Science Meeting does it from the perspective of Science and what about five years? It’s just a sigh, but a sigh full with history, Arts. The theme 'Digital Transformation' will be the backbone that will sustain the achievement of both events. change and evolution. Returning to Cartagena de Indias between And while the Committees await the papers, two of the the 3rd and the 5th of September, will be like returning home, to international speakers expected to share their experiences with a place that, due to the shared affection, experiences, knowledge the Latin American ICT community were announced. They are the Argentine William Confalonieri, Digital Director of Deakin and laughter, we feel it is already ours. However, we have a few University, and the American Martin Hilbert, professor at the doubts: Will we be able to continue growing? Will we satisfy the University of California, Davis. Awarded with the CIO Award 2018 by IT News, Confalonieri will bring to TICAL2018 his experience expectations of those who have been with us during all these with the Deakin Genie project, chosen as the best IT project years? Can we seduce those who will be part of our Conference in Australia. Hilbert will share his experience of more than 10 for the first time? And will the e-Science Meeting be able to bring years at the ECLAC of the United Nations Secretariat, where he created and coordinated the Information Society Programme, together scientists and ICT leaders from regional higher education and his vast experience in big data. Get to know a little more institutions around common goals? There are many questions, but about them in the interviews on the following pages. we have a great desire: To meet you in Cartagena and be able to say Early registration with discounts

"We have achieved our goals!". Those who want to know firsthand the experiences of Hilbert and Confalonieri, as well as all those who know that TICAL2018 María José López Pourailly and the 2nd e-Science Meeting are unmissable for anyone who

8 9 Categories and prices for registration Venue until August 2, 2018: The TICAL2018 Conference and the 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting will be Public not belonging to RedCLARA member networks: held jointly between September 3 and 5, 2018 at the International Convention and General public: USD$ 400 Exhibition Center Las Americas, located a TICAL Authors: USD$ 320 few minutes from the airport of the city of Cartagena de Indias. Members of RedCLARA’s member institutions: The place counts on environments lead the development of ICT and Science Assistant: USD$ 320 with capacities for up to 5000 people, in the Universities and Study Centers TICAL Authors: USD$ 256 distributed in several types of scenarios: of Latin America, can now ensure their the New Granada hall, the La Santa Maria participation. The registration page Pavilion, the Plaza Mayor and the Plaza de for the events is already working and la Independencia, besides the portals and the registration guarantees, besides Categories and prices for registration gardens. participation in the plenary and parallel after August 3, 2018: sessions, a place at the Gala Dinner, As in previous years, the event organization the delivery of the material, lunch and sought deals with hotels to get promotional Public not belonging to RedCLARA member networks: coffeebreaks. Those who register until prices. In 2018, we will have discounts at all August 2 will be entitled to special Las Americas Group hotels, which can be General public: USD$ 500 discounts. viewed on the Conference website http:// TICAL Authors: USD$ 400 tical2018.redclara.net/. Members of RedCLARA’s member institutions: Assistant: USD$ 400 TICAL Authors: USD$ 320

Important: The authors of the e-Science Meeting do NOT pay.

10 11 More importantly, those that are devoted to providing services, are affected by them from the root.

The level of change required to survive in the upcoming years is enormous and only those organizations that are able to see what is necessary and change in William Confalonieri, Deakin University’s Chief Digital Officer, Australia: that direction, will be able to survive in the long term. Again, the "driver", the motivation of that change, is technology “Information technologies will and digitalization. How did you decide to build a cause a total disruption in the digital transformation agenda until university model” 2020 for Deakin University? What would you say is the Well, it was not my decision to create contribution of digitization to it. At the beginning of 2012, as a result How did start the story that led an Argentine to move his family - with university work? of the arrival of a new President, I was recruited by the University. The President three very little children - to live in Australia and become a kind of Well, if we understand digitization in its envisioned that Deakin had to take rock star in the world of ICT and within it, in the complex university broadest sense, that is, the contribution advantage of all the digital movement of ICT and digital innovations, I would that was transforming the world. As a scene? It started with his need of offering a better quality of life to say that the contribution to the consequence of that, I was chosen as his family. That is what led William Confalonieri in a journey that, university and the university model the first CIO of the university; before is enormous, at least in the university there was an IT Support function for among other things, made him winner of the CIO of the Year at the model in which I work. Technology is the university, but my role came with Australian Executive Awards (CEO Magazine) in 2016, and two years basically at the heart of all operations, the mandate to place Deakin as one of from managing all the processes of the the global leaders in terms of digital later of the same award, granted by IT News, recognizing the Deakin professional and administrative part of innovation. Genie project as Australia’s top IT project. In September he will be the university, to providing platforms for teaching and learning, laboratories, The description of my role was not only one of the main characters of the plenary sessions that will gather experiments and support for students a service provider, it was expected that life in general. Everything has a large IT would influence the strategy of the TICAL2018 and the 2nd Latin American e-Science Meeting in the Las technology component. On the other university in the right direction to be Americas Convention Center, in Cartagena de Indias, which is the hand, technology and digitalization are successful and survive the different permanently affecting and changing waves of digital transformation that reason why we invited him to have this conversation that we know the pedagogy, the way in which the would affect all organizations. Thus, as will awaken your desire to know him and to be awaiting the chance of teaching service is applied. That is an of 2012, the entire executive level of important component. Finally, we are the university worked to create a new learning from his experience. entering an era where digital technology strategy, and an important part of this María José López Pourailly and innovation are generating a great was the "moto" we chose: "Driving the impact in the organizations, not only digital fronteer". It was a clear indication in universities, but in all organizations. that we wanted to do things differently

12 13 and better than most institutions in this I was the only person in Australia, for digital aspect. That was the 2020 agenda many years, and I think I'm still the only of the university; it was an aspiration, one in the university sector, that being there was no detailed plan. responsible for the digital area, has a seat at the executive table. In all other From that point, with my team we started cases in Australia, the IT function is one preparing annual and three-year plans level down, it does not participate in on technology and digital innovation, making strategic decisions. We had a which were refreshed during all these lot of work to get and keep that place, years. The aspirations remain the same, and to convince the organization that a but the plans are open and every three different way of working was possible. years I rewrite a digital strategy that has an annual chapter. Of course, in addition to that, it was a lot about understanding what the reality of What was the process and which the industry was in terms of innovation, were the steps you had to follow to tools, platforms, and imagining achieve the goal of building the digital something better, imagining that it was transformation agenda? possible to do in a certain time what The process was basically to understand would put us ahead of what the rest. what was the situation at that moment, It was about dreaming and inspiring and which was the final goal, and try to and coming up with very ambitious understand the path we should follow projects that, today I can say, gave us a huge political effort. Having influence point of view. So the change is mainly towards the future and the components formidable advantage compared to other across the organization, to really make philosophical and then technological. that we had to work with. Obviously a universities at national and international the agenda a reality, is also vital; all central issue was to work with my team, level, of course. the management of that change, of Is it possible to imagine a university to handle the cultural issues of the team the way to behave and understand without ICT? I received -formed, then, by 250 people, What subjects would you highlight the things that the organization has, is Not really. It's really hard to try to imagine and today, by 450-, and to understand as the most relevant of this digital fundamental. anything, any organization without a core ans solve certain problems of focus transformation agenda? I always say that the answer to digital of technology that makes the operation on certain things... the team members I always say that technology, that the disruption or the process of digital possible. I have a very specific vision came from an administration that saw technological part, is the easy part and transformation is not technological, it about the university model, but to technology nothing more than as a the complex part is when we have to is -first of all- philosophical. You have to understand my vision it is necessary to support and not as a force for change, so incorporate the human part. What I mean start to understand things in a different understand that the university model in we had to make many cultural changes, is that the whole process of managing way, and that will be one of the topics which I work is very developed; we have incorporate new disciplines, in some people, interacting with people or of my presentation in TICAL. Clearly, the a lot of resources to invest in technology, cases make people change and give my creating influence is the difficult part. philosophy and the way the organization and that is why we are much closer to team the power it needed. As I said before, putting my team in the understands this process is fundamental. the vision that I am going to propose. right place, with all the capabilities and On the other hand I had to work with If an organization is only concerned But I think that in the future, in not all the necessary opportunities, was a the organization and it was a very with improving the technology, it will many years, the university experience very big work. Creating influence and important political work, in the sense not go anywhere. It is necessary to will become completely disruptive. The putting our area at the highest level of getting a new place, one that was not change the DNA and actually respond game will completely change when we of the organization, to operate with the traditional one for the discipline of to the environment in a completely get maturity with respect to technologies ambitious plans, always requires a technology and the digital area. Even different way from the organizational like AI, augmented reality, contextual

14 15 technology... all these things will What are your expectations converge on a model that will make the regarding TICAL2018 and what can college experience be much bigger in we expect from your presentation? the living room of your home than in a Well, from a professional point of view, physical place in a physical university. I've been away from Latin America for I believe that the days of physical thirteen years. Although I frequently campuses and physical universities are travel for personal reasons, I am not numbered. There will be exceptions, aware of the professional reality in this but the university model, the teaching region, so it will be very interesting to model of the future, in my point of view, contact and complement my vision. I will have two characteristics: it will be have traveled the world for different totally digital and remote, and highly conferences and I confess that I need Martin Hilbert: personalized, based on intelligent agents to complete this vision with the Latin and augmented reality. Something American experience. no university, no entity, has been “Most individuals of the human able to do so far, which is to provide About my presentation, I think I can highly personalized teaching on a provide a very interesting perspective. massive level, these technologies that Together with my organization and team species entrust their lives to I have mentioned before will do so; the we have been doing really interesting traditional university we know today will things in recent years, we have won Artificial Intelligence every day” be a poor experience compared to what many awards on a global level in terms will be possible in the future. Therefore, of innovation and with our successes it is inot only mpossible to imagine a and mistakes we have learned a lot in university without technology today, but this process. The contribution of the information technologies will cause a experience is phenomenal. I am sure His website has his name and there you can find all the posts total disruption in the university model that I can present a very provocative and studies in which he has worked, his videos, interviews in the upcoming years. and interesting perspective. and scientific publications, besides, of course, social network content. Our interviewee is probably the strangest "fish" in the waters of TICAL and the e-Science Meeting because, unlike all those who have passed through the plenary sessions until now, he does not come from the world of ICT or of the "hard" sciences, but from the humanities; in fact he is Professor of Communications at the University of California (Davis, USA). This is one of the activities of Martin Hilbert, Big Data expert who will go to TICAL2018 to share his experience in using the big data for the development of complex models and public policies.

María José López Pourailly

16 want to change the world. In doing so, they are. They record most business human beings and the ways in which you remain in the world of ideas, without transactions with a financial footprint governments can improve the living attaching them to reality. and tell us who their friends are and conditions of its citizens? what they communicate with them. More than once someone may have Most important when it comes to working With this we can predict their future already said that it seems strange or with massive data, it's not the data itself, actions with an accuracy of 85-90%. For curious to find a person coming from but the algorithms, which summarize the example, knowing to which radio bases the world of the Humanities working and patterns in the data. In other words, it is your cell phone was connected, I can making such an interesting and efficient the knowledge that you can extract from predict with 90% accuracy where you use of the big data for analyzes that are the data. Discover the patterns behind will be tomorrow afternoon and next deeply associated with people's lives it, see the shadow of the mechanism year. This begins to be science. and the course of social policies. Do you that created the data, a mechanism agree that this 'interchange' is curious? What seduces you most in data that shapes the reality we see. The data analysis work? is the shadow in Plato's cave. We are What is traditionally called "humanities" interested in what generated the data, is now becoming science. We, who were Understand society and how it works, to the mechanism behind that generation; an art, became science. Traditionally, see how we can improve it. is the knowledge of how the world works when one could explain 15% of the and that is what this current paradigm variance in some social / economic / In terms of public policy Martin Hilbert leads to: knowledge. political study, it could be published in development and advice to the most respected scientific journals governments in this line, you have We are in transition from the information in the world. 15%!? How is it possible been through a long way. From this, society to the knowledge society. An You come from the world of to make public policies based on the how would you explain to the world algorithm is knowledge. The digital Humanities; journalist, sociologist, understanding of 15%? We were not in which you work the importance era had three phases, the first was Doctor of Economics and Social science, we were more art than science. of the big data for the generation communication (phones and the Internet Sciences. Why and at what time did of policies that affect the lives of all in the 1990s and 2000), the second, you start integrating the big data Now, with more than 99% of all into your work and life? technologically mediated information in digital format and 98% mobile When I started this work at ECLAC penetration worldwide, the digitization (United Nations Regional Commission of human interaction produces an for Latin America and the Caribbean), impressive digital footprint of society. one of the first steps was to create an This has transformed the social sciences Observatory for the Information Society and economics, traditionally poor in (called OSILAC), creating indicators to data, into the most comprehensive area measure ICT, working together with of empirical evidence to date. Physicists the NSOs in the region. Some of these do not know how many stars there are indicators were even adopted by the in the Universe, and biologists do not United Nations Statistical Commission know where the fish are in the ocean. for global collection. I realized that Our 7.5 billion study subjects all carry when you have data from the world, it a location sensor in their pockets, and is useless to think about how exactly you we know every second of the day where

18 19 information (social networks and big pilots. The main source of energy of What are your expectations data), we are now entering the era of mankind (the electric grid) is completely regarding the participation in knowledge, algorithms (machine learning in the hands of artificial intelligence; TICAL? What can we expect from and artificial intelligence). Development three of every four transactions in the your presentation? is a process of knowledge. How can you largest homo sapiens stock market (the I want to learn from your challenges! I want to improve the living conditions US market) are executed by automated just got back from the 6th Ministerial of citizens without knowledge? Today, trading algorithms; and with one in Conference on the Information Society the five most valuable companies in the three marriages in the United States of Latin America and the Caribbean world work with this issue. A couple of starting online, digital algorithms have (eLAC2020), which also took place at years ago, these were still oil or industrial also begun to play an undeniable role the Hotel Las Americas in Cartagena. giants. Today, however, they are data in sexual mating and in the genetic 26 governments, 23 of the region with and machine learning companies. So for inheritance of mankind. almost 1,000 delegates, discussed the me, this question is at the heart of the If you told me, "Martin, we found an themes of the sixth version of the eLAC development of a society. alien species, and they delegated to Regional Action Plan. The discussion What is or should be strategic in the the machines almost all their power included topics such as blockchain, management of social networks for distribution decisions, 3/4 of their Internet of Things and Artificial university institutions, governments resource allocation decisions, and an Intelligence. When I wrote the first and community organizations? average of 1/3 of their procreation version of eLAC on a Sunday afternoon decision, it would be difficult to deny in 2003, I would never have imagined I think the whole society should reflect how indispensable these machines are that 15 years later that plan would still a little more on the effective use of to this species. We are this species. exist and that I would worry about issues social networks. Those more dominant There is no need for a chip in the like that! But the issue is stronger and nowadays are not so social; are primarily brain (although it is on the way). On a more important than ever, and there are commercial. Originally, it was a quasi- sociological level, we have merged with always new issues on the agenda. So, I'm socialist ambition that led Silicon Valley least did not depend on that. Facebook artificial intelligence. already looking forward to seeing what to create free services for all. And it's and Google are completely dependent I can learn at TICAL2018! true, today you can use Facebook for on commercials and this does not leave free, like YouTube. But in the end, to them much flexibility. We have to rethink make it viable, they sold themselves out if it was not better when we paid for the to the commercials and created the most landline, but with the guarantee that no Get to know Martin Hilbert better: controlling capitalist machine we've ever one would distort our communication http://www.martinhilbert.net/category/ seen in history. The result has been that for commercial purposes. in-the-news/ all communication between you and me http://www.theclinic.cl/2017/01/19/martin-hilbert- is mediated by ferocious commercial From a sociological point of view, is experto-redes-digitales-obama-trump-usaron-big- interests. it possible to understand the current data-lavar-cerebros/ world without ICT? Why? http://www.theclinic.cl/2018/04/18/martin- This is very different from a traditional hilbert-escandalo-facebook-estamos-atacando-los- At this time, most individuals of the human media model, where you pay a monthly sintomas-no-la-enfermedad/ fee to talk on the phone and where species entrust their lives to artificial there is no distortion, or in the case intelligence, every day. For example, of public television, which is not the relying on the anti-lock braking system subject of commercial interests, or at in cars (ABS) or on authomatic aircraft

20 21 Luis Eliécer Cadenas, Executive Director For Luis Eliécer Cadenas, the MoU between of RedCLARA, and Rafael Mayo, RedCLARA and RICAP is promoting a way Coordinator of RICAP, are the signatories of acting that is key for the academic of the agreement, valid until the end of community in the region. "Sharing the the year 2020. invested resources, generally scarce, promoting local or regional initiatives so Based in Madrid, Spain, RICAP is a that the entire community has access to thematic network that provides to the it, gives a value to the cooperative effort region a strategic infrastructure in the that goes beyond pure connectivity," field of high performance computing he analyzes. The Director also explains from an advanced architecture that what the next steps of the initiative will includes High Performance Computing be: "We will define, together, a work (HPC) and High Productivity (HTC). plan that includes online training and For this, it brings together several the structure of the technical methods organizations and develops different required for members of any academic software tools designed to facilitate network in Latin America, in order to the access and the computational Collaborative work allow them to use these resources with efficiency of this hardware infrastructure, security guarantee". encouraging free use through various RedCLARA and RICAP dissemination actions. The MoU does not imply any type of binding legal obligation and may The agreement with RedCLARA is be renewed automatically for 39 another step in that direction, given sign agreement to create months at the end. To obtain more that it also seeks to increase awareness information about the Memorandum of and information on the activities cooperation mechanisms Understanding and its resolutions visit of each network by its members, as RedCLARA’s website. well as by potential users and those Aiming to establish a regulatory framework with respect to responsible for making decisions within The agreement with RICAP is the third cooperation mechanisms between the Latin American Cooperation the respective beneficiary communities. of the type signed by RedCLARA in the "The importance of the MoU is really last months. In September 2017, the of Advanced Networks (RedCLARA) and the Ibero-American Network vital given that, without RedCLARA, the regional network signed a MoU with the scope and impact that RICAP could have Bolivian chapter of Internet Society for of High Performance Computing (RICAP), both institutions signed, would be much more limited. Thanks to the development of Bolivia's advanced on December 11, 2017, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in all the activities that RedCLARA regularly national network and its subsequent carries out, RICAP will be promoted and integration into the regional network, which commit, among other actions, to exchange and promote its will be able to fulfill its commitments and in December the agreement with experiences and best practices, provide and carry out joint training more effectively. Likewise, RedCLARA SOS Telemedicina, of Venezuela, was will benefit from the fact that it will announced, to extend and develop and teaching activities, and integrate its cloud computing platforms provide its associates with a much initiatives in the area. greater computing capacity", celebrates into a single infrastructure. Rafael Mayo. Luiz Alberto Rasseli

22 23 Between Santiago and La Serena Director of the AURA Observatory in the leadership with Ecuador and Colombia Chile; Roberto Muñoz, General Manager that inaugurated their networks last year", Chile inaugurates the first stretch of Telefónica in Chile; Dr. José Palacios, concluded. Chairman of the Board of Directors of For more information about the REUNA, and Dr. Fernando Liello, Director for inauguration and to read this information of its high speed optical network Europe of the BELLA project - Building the from its source, visit http://www.reuna.cl Europe Link to Latin America, an initiative In a milestone of collaborative work between scientists, professionals that is working on the connection of Latin America and Europe through a submarine from the world of technologies and academics from La Serena and Santiago cable that will unite both regions, and (northern and central Chile), and with direct connection by videoconference on the improvement of the capabilities of RedCLARA (and its step towards the between both cities, was held on April 19, the inauguration ceremony of constitution of an optical backbone in South America), which will be directly the first stretch of the High Speed Optic Fiber Network of REUNA, the benefited by the REUNA effort.

Chilean National Research and Education Network. "This first milestone is the materialization Luiz Alberto Rasseli / Comunicações REUNA of a dream we coined in the 90s, working on the construction of networks to interconnect research centers and This new network is the first result of Montt, to finish between 2020 and 2021, universities. This time we take a leap a project that, framed in the Strategic with the potential integration of REUNA in speed and technology, deploying Development Plan of the Chilean Networks to the Southern Optical Fiber an avant-garde network with world- advanced network, is led by REUNA with of the Government of Chile, to unite the class standards that has been catalyzed Authorities in La Serena; from left to right: Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, Rector of the Universidad de La Serena; Lucía Pinto, the participation of the AURA Observatory, scientific and teaching community in the by Astronomy projects, but that in its mayor of the Coquimbo region; Dr. R. Chris Smith, ,director and head of the AURA Observatory Mission in Chile; as responsible for the Great LSST Telescope extreme south of the country. anteroom is extended and shared with Paola Arellano, executive director of REUNA. project, and Telefónica, as a technological research centers and universities in the The inauguration brought together public, partner. The digital route was designed as network", commented Paola Arellano, academic and scientific authorities and an infrastructure for the enormous amount Executive Director of REUNA. experts from the world of astronomy and of data that LSST will generate as of 2021, the industrial area, located in Santiago and will be available for the open access The mega digital infrastructure, which and La Serena, who analyzed the impact of astronomers, scientists, academics and extends over 800 kilometers of optic of having enabling infrastructures such students between Santiago and La Serena. fiber, becomes a large digital highway, as high-speed networks and access with transversal access and capable of The stretch will be illuminated with to huge repository of freely available moving huge volumes of data at high multiple channels of 100 Gigabits per astronomical data, laying the foundations speed. Chile thus ranks as the vanguard in second and in the rest of the year, another for the various industries that increasingly Latin America in digital development and stretch will be inaugurated with the produce and analyze more and more data. high quality connectivity for research and same technology, connecting the cities The event included a telepanel between education. According to Arellano, there are of the Santiago, Concepción and Temuco. both locations, with the participation of: few regional networks with these purposes Subsequently, between 2019 and 2020, Christian Nicolai, Executive Director of that have long-distance infrastructure like REUNA will launch stretches between La Conicyt; Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, Rector of the this: "Today, thanks to this step, we share Serena-Arica and then Temuco-Puerto University of La Serena; Dr. Chris Smith, Photo authorities in Santiago; from left to right: Fernando Liello, Bella project director; Roberto Muñoz, general manager of Telefónica Chile; José Palacios, president of the REUNA Board; Christian Nicolai, executive director of CONICYT. Credits: Communications CONICYT.

24 25 Researchers from Chilean universities developed a method for predicting earthquakes

Chile is one of the most seismic countries in the world, which is why its scientists and researchers work hard to understand and deal with these natural phenomena that have caused so much damage to the country throughout its history and, more profoundly, in the last decade. And in 2018, after three years of data collection and analysis, a team of researchers from the University of Chile (linked to the Chilean advanced network, REUNA) and Tarapacá, made a breakthrough that could result in this direction: a mechanism of prediction of earthquakes.

Enrique Cordaro, photograph published by Qué Pasa magazine in http://www.quepasa.cl/articulo/ciencia/2018/04/terremoto-en-el-cielo.shtml/ Luiz Alberto Rasseli

In analyzing the behavior of the installed on the ground. We observed According to the researcher, this The complete study, which drew the magnetic field in the Earth's southern abrupt changes in the near magnetic discovery is a first step that opens the attention of the Chilean and international hemisphere, the team led by Enrique field before the movements which possibility of predicting earthquakes. media, is entitled "Latitudinal variation Cordaro, a researcher at the Faculty of generated oscillations that ended only 2 "Now, together with our co-investigator, rate of geomagnetic cutoff rigidity in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences of to 6 hours before the event [earthquake] Dr. David Laroze, and our thesis active Chilean convergent margin" and the University of Chile and the Faculty occurred", explains Cordaro. Similar researcher, Patricio Venega, from the was published in the prestigious German of Engineering of the Autonomous behavior was found in the earthquakes Department of Geophysics of the magazine Annales Geophysicae, being University of Chile, found an anomaly of Maule (Chile) in 2010, Sumatra University of Chile, we want to deepen available for consultation at https:// that, after approximately 30 days of (Indonesia) in 2004 and Tohoku (Japan) this relationship between geomagnetism www.ann-geophys.net/36/275/2018/ its occurrence, is followed by a major in 2011. In all three cases, every time an and earthquakes, and so we are analyzing earthquake in some sector of the planet. earthquake could occur, the magnetic the last three major earthquakes in field fell. After a while, the earthquake Chile, Maule in 2010 (8.8 degrees on "From our three observatories of cosmic actually occurred. the Richter scale), Iquique 2014 (8.2) radiation and geomagnetism in Putre, and Illapel 2015 (8.3). The idea now is Santiago, and Antarctica, we measured According to the evidence, terrestrial to seek the necessary funding to keep the incoming radiation particles and magnetism and the occurrence of the observatory operation operating the magnetic field with magnetometers earthquakes are strongly linked. continuously", explains the researcher.

26 27 In the framework of BELLA

The delivery of this first circuit is part First 100 Gb/s link of the agreement signed between RNP and the Companhia Hidro Elétrica do São of the IPê network Francisco (Chesf) for the technological evolution of the national academic network, supported by the company's starts operating transmission lines. The infrastructure sharing agreement with Chesf will last 20 years and receives investments from The first 100Gb/s link of Ipê network, the Northeast Connected Program of that connects the Points of Presence of the Ministry of Education to internalize broadband access for education and Paraíba and Pernambuco, in Brazil, came research. RNP Photo: The Director of Engineering and Operations of RNP, Eduardo Grizendi, and the Minister of into operation on March 16. The delivery of The announcement was made on Monday Education of Brazil, Mendonça Filho, in Gravatá (PE). this first circuit is part of the agreement (19th), on the agenda of the Minister of Education, Mendonça Filho, in the city signed between RNP and the Companhia of Gravatá (PE). On the occasion, Chesf's speeds starting at 1 Gbps. By the end of Also in 2018, the backbone project at 100 Chief Operating Officer, João Henrique Hidroelétrica do São Francisco (Chesf) 2019, in the second phase of the project, Gbps will be extended to other regions Franklin, highlighted the benefits of another 77 cities in the Northeast will be of the country, due to the agreements for the technological evolution of the the cooperation for the academic contemplated. signed with Furnas and Eletrosul. First, it community. "More than transmitting national academic network, supported will reach São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, electricity through our transmission The increase in capacity of the Ipê by the company's transmission lines. The and then it will reach other routes lines and substations, this partnership network in the Northeast also indirectly served by the Southeast ring, which represents a technological leap for benefits all the institutions connected to infrastructure sharing agreement with Chesf includes nine states (Minas Gerais, Rio de the Northeast and Brazil, and shows the RNP’s Presence Points in those states will last 20 years and receive investments Janeiro, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, Mato Chesf's commitment to socioeconomic with 100 Gbps technology. This very high Grosso, Federal District, Goiás, Paraná from the Northeast Connected Program development and quality of life of all", performance capability can be taken to and Tocantins). By the end of 2019, other said Franklin. other locations in the countryside by (Programa Nordeste Conectado) of the 100G links will be operational in the the optical network projects undertaken The first phase of the project, scheduled south of the country and in Mato Grosso Ministry of Education to take broadband by the state governments, with its own to be completed in the first semester, do Sul, with international connections resources and in partnership with RNP, access for education and research. includes deliveries of five other on the borders with Argentina, Paraguay with investments from the Veredas backbone links at 100G in the Northeast, and Uruguay. Novas Estaduais Program of the Ministry on the routes between Fortaleza, Natal, RNP of Science, Technology, Innovation and In the North region, the expectation is Campina Grande, Recife, Maceió, Aracaju Communications (MCTIC). The state to meet the RNP’s Points of Presence at and Salvador. In all, 28 campuses of network of Pernambuco (RePEPE) is 100 Gbps through the deliveries of the federal institutions from 19 cities in the already under construction, and the Amazonian Connected Program, led by rural area of the Northeast will benefit delivery of the first phase is scheduled the Brazilian Army, which implants fibre directly from this first phase, with for June. optic cables in the Amazon River basin.

28 29 System collects data to Due to connectivity difficulties in the minimize climate change Amazon, the responsible agency uses the Brazilian National Research and Educational Network RNPs e-Science impact on the Amazon service, Cipó, which creates end- to-end circuits to use a direct data The Amazon region is one of the ecosystems on communications channel with the University of São Paulo. The service the planet most affected by global climate change. facilitates the daily work of researchers The reason is variations in the Ecuador line cause who require guaranteed bandwidth and better performance in data transfers events like floods, droughts and storms that directly where the time factor is critical. This is the case of the STARNET network, which affect the environment and the local population. carries out updates every five minutes.

According to Censipam, data from RNP / In the Field the SIPAMHidro system contributes to advances in research on the Earth’s hydrological cycle, where the Amazon is one of the most active regions. Also the data serves as basis for real-time applications in the areas of water resources, meteorology, aviation security and in the energy sector. Also, river navigation benefits from the SIPAMHidro n seasonal periods of low rainfall and information to be used by the scientific São Paulo (IAG/USP). This academic unit system, a valuable help in this region, high air temperatures, river water community, public agencies, and by coordinates an international cooperation where rivers are the most important levels in the Amazon basin get too low the general population. SIPAMHidro network, STARNET, for detection of transport routes. for navigation, leaving communities is operated by the Operational and atmospheric discharges. isolated. The droughts also cause fires Management Centre of the Amazon For Censipam’s Science and Technology Monitoring can be followed on the that alter the ecological balance in the Protection System (Censipam), linked to analyst Márcio Lopes, this information Raios Online portal, which shows the Amazon Forest, which holds 12% of the the Ministry of Defence. makes it possible to forecast severe geo-referenced information of two world’s biodiversity. Deforestation by weather and issue alerts that can save One of SIPAMHidros tasks is the sensors in the Amazon region, in Belém human action aggravates this scenario lives:“In the Amazon, public agencies such monitoring of atmospheric electrical and Manaus, and ten other sensors – even more. as state and city Civil Defence can access discharges in the Amazon measured nine in Latin America and one in Cape real-time information on floods, droughts Given the effects of these climate by radio frequency receiving antennas, Verde, Africa. Sensor data are collected and severe storms, followed by flooding phenomena, a monitoring system was which can locate lightning up to 7,000 and processed in São Paulo and made and inundation, to minimize the impacts launched in Brazil, integrating hydro- km away. The data is sent from the city accessible to researchers in the country of natural disasters on inhabited areas”. meteorological data from the Amazon, of Belém, in the North region, to the and abroad. such as rainfall and river conditions. The Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and system, called SIPAMHidro, generates Atmospheric Sciences of the University of

30 31 New international 100 Gb/s connections are activated in Fortaleza and Chile

The new links are part of the AmLight The Amlight consortium, which Express and Protect (AmLight Exp) manages international connections project, which receives resources from the National Science Foundation (NSF) between the United States and and lasts for five years. The connections Latin America for teaching and form a ring between Miami, Fortaleza, Sao Paulo, Santiago and again Miami, research purposes, has announced which makes the 100 Gb/ capacity also available in Santiago and Fortaleza. "This the activation of new 100 Gb/s ring will soon be connected to future Ellalink (from Portugal) and SACS (from international connections in Fortaleza, Researcher at the Florida International and international scientific collaboration Angola) submarine cables, forming what University (FIU), Julio Ibarra highlighted in the American continent", commented. Brazil, and Santiago, Chile. With these should be called the South Atlantic the geographically strategic positions Crossroads-SAX," said the RNP R&D The AmLight consortium is a group of new links, researchers and students of the two cities. "By adding Santiago director, Michael Stanton. local, regional, and national academic and Fortaleza to the AmLight-ExP 100G and university networks: the Florida in both countries will have access to The high-performance connections will ring, educational and research activities International University, RNP, ANSP, the also serve the LSST (Large Synoptic between the United States and South a new network infrastructure with ten academic networks of Chile (Reuna), Survey Telescope) project, a telescope American countries will be able to rely Florida (FLR), the United States times the bandwidth, to the benefit of that is under construction in Cerro on a more resilient and high-capacity (Internet2), RedCLARA, which connects Pachón, Chile. "The network will allow network infrastructure", celebrated the international academic collaboration. academic networks in Latin America, the LSST data to travel to our data unit at the researcher. Association of Universities for Research University of Illinois National Center for According to the project coordinator in Astronomy (AURA) and the telecom RNP, with information of Amlight Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) of the São Paulo academic network operator Telecom Italia Sparkle. in a matter of seconds. There, it will (ANSP), Luis Lopez, the reliability of high be processed in real-time for transient bandwidth is a challenge in a continental event alerts and annual releases of country like Brazil. "This great work of data containing billions of galaxies and RNP with Brazil's electricity companies stars", said the LSST project manager will allow us to extend a 100G backbone Jeffrey Kantor. from the rainforest of the far north to the plains of the south. We need not to say how important this is for national

32 33 Training The courses are taught by experts in The CLARA EDX platform works better the respective areas, namely Dr. Ricardo with current versions of Chrome, Firefox Alberto Olivares Veliz, Head of the or Safari, or with Internet Explorer version Department of Electronic Engineering at 9 and higher. To register, simply access BELLA Project offers free courses UTFSM, Valparaíso, Chile (Optical Network the EDX module through Colaboratorio Systems), and Javier Richard Quinto, https://colaboratorio.redclara.net), click on optical networks and networks Master of Electrical Engineering in the on the desired course and fill out the Area of Computer Engineering by the registration form. After registration, more defined by software State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) information will be sent to your email. and student of Doctorate in Electrical Engineering in the Area of Computer Both courses are part of the training activities developed by the BELLA Engineering, also by the UNICAMP project (Building the Europe Link to Latin America) and are now available (Networks defined by software). free of charge to all those interested at CLARA’s EDX platform.

Luiz Alberto Rasseli

Through both courses, BELLA aims to prepare the National Research and Education Networks of Latin America, and the network engineers of its affiliated institutions, for the substantial change that RedCLARA's new optical backbone, which is being developed through BELLA, will impose. The networks defined by software, in In the course "Optical Network Systems" turn, constitute the new paradigm in the students will have the get access to network architecture, which seeks to the concepts and foundations of Dense improve flexibility, programmability, Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) cost and security in data networks. Move and Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing from an intelligence model distributed (CWDM) optical network systems. in the network elements to a centralized The content includes the theoretical control model, with switches based on description of the types of modulation the Openflow protocol. In this course, used for the transmission of multiple students will understand how this optical channels on an optical fiber protocol works, its characteristics and the wire, and describes the elements that network elements involved in a software affect the transmission, as attenuation, defined network architecture (SDN). The dispersion and non-linear effects that students will also have the opportunity must be taken into account when to perform practical exercises, using the designing or operating optical networks. Mininet simulator, Open vSwitch and the Opendaylight driver.

34 35 On the occasion, Alberto Cabezas, The Latin American and Caribbean Executive Secretary, participated in Scientific Data Management Workshop Panel 2 of the first day of discussion, was convened by the World Data System called "Challenges for data management (WDS), an interdisciplinary body of the projects in Latin America & the International Council for Science (ICSU), Caribbean". The Secretary presented the responsible for creating an international article "Public goods for scientific data network of data services to support policies in Latin America", developed international science, and by the Brazilian jointly with Bianca Amaro (IBICT), Paola Academy of Sciences. The workshop Azrilevich (SNRD Argentina), Patricia offered the opportunity to explore the Muñoz Palma (Conicyt Chile) and Silvia data landscape in Latin America and the Nakano (Mincyt Argentina). The links of Caribbean, identifying initiatives in the the documents and the presentation in area, its strengths and limitations, and PPT are available at the end of this page. new opportunities for collaboration. In addition, trends and future perspectives The presentation is a synthesis of the for the scientific data systems were vision generated by LA Referencia’s analyzed, as well as the criteria and Council at the beginning of the year. standards for the certification of data It addresses open science in general Towards Open Science repositories. The Latin American and and the open scientific data for Latin Caribbean Scientific Data Management America, describing the regional Workshop had the support of ICSU- context, the priorities and the public LA Referencia presented its Rolac, of the Brazilian advanced network, policies that should guide the action. RNP, and of the Brazilian Institute of In addition, the document presents Information on Science and Technology new policies of scientific data at the internationalization progress in the (Ibict), among others. context of Coar (Confederation of Open international event in Rio Access Repositories) and OpenAIRE, the Horizon2020 program platform for Open LA Referencia – a Latin American initiative for Open Access and Science, concluding with a reflection on the alignment with the F.A.I.R. Principles. Science generated by RedCLARA - participated on April 17, at the Latin "The above represents an effort to set American and Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop of the priorities of public goods in the medium term and an approach to the World Data System (WDS) in Rio de Janeiro, which aimed to discuss challenge of scientific data, coherent the best practices of scientific data management developed by to the trajectory of Open Access in the region, in areas such as technology, research institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean and identify licenses, guidelines, among others. It ongoing initiatives, among other aspects. is a common vision that aims to avoid the duplication of efforts and deepen a Luiz Alberto Rasseli model of regional collaboration in this area", explains Cabezas.

36 37 AGENDA 2018

June July

6 - 8 | EUNIS 2018 Annual Congress 4 - 5 | 14th Service and Technology Forum Paris, France Poznan, Poland http://www.eunis.org/calendar/eunis-2018-congress/ https://eventr.geant.org/events/2911

10 -14 | TNC18 - Networking Conference 9 - 13 | CHEP2018 Trondheim, Norway Sofia, Bulgaria https://tnc18.geant.org http://chep2018.org

18 - 21 | CANHEIT 14 - 20 | IETF 102 Burnaby, Canada Montreal, Canada https://canheit-tecc.sfu.ca https://ietf.org/how/meetings/102/

24 - 29| FIRST Annual Conference Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia https://www.first.org/conference/2018/hotel August 25 - 26| The Digital Assembly 2018 Sofia, Bulgaria 5 - 9 | 46th APAN Meeting https://eu2018bg.bg Auckland, New Zealand http://apan46.nz/apan46

38 39 The Editor wishes to make it clear that the statements made or opinions expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the contributors and cannot be taken to ref lect the views of CLARA