ELCIRA Virtual Days:
Successful experiences of scientific collaboration in Latin America

Videoconference rooms connected to advanced networks, participants invited in each of these rooms, virtual participants on the Internet and renowned Latin American scientists and academics are the ingredients that come together every month to carry out the ELCIRA Virtual Days, an initiative which to date has addressed topics like culture, infrastructure, health and communication are highlighting the new role of ICT in the world.

“Virtual Days are an initiative carried out by the ELCIRA project in order to bring researchers together so they can learn about the potential of academic networks”, states Luis Núñez, RedCLARA’s Academic Relations Manager, who coordinates the initiative.

According to Núñez, since 2012 14 Virtual Days have been carried out, addressing topics like infrastructure, health and digital communication. These fourteen meetings had brought together more than 160 videoconference rooms, mostly in Latin America, and a few in Europe (France, Portugal, Italy and Spain), and featured the participation of more than 600 people through videoconference plus one hundred via streaming.

“The idea of the virtual days is to incorporate researchers and, above all, to demonstrate the potential of the advanced network to researchers that still doesn’t know about it. Why an advanced network? Because actually, if we want to make innovations in our continent, if we want to create new information products, we need a platform which allows us to experiment, which allows us to develop new products over the high capacity and stability of a network like RedCLARA and its member networks throughout the continent”, indicated Núñez.

Download the presentations and videos of each Virtual Day from the following links:

• Virtual Day "Advanced Network in the academy and research of Latin America"
http://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/313/

• Virtual Day on e-Health: Strategies, National Programs and Academic Networks: March 12, 2014
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DVE-salud

• 2nd Virtual Day on The IGUAL Project: December 11th, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DVIGUAL

• Virtual Day on Social Innovation: November 28th, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DVInnsocial

• 4th Virtual Day on Autism: November 27th, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DVAutismo4

• Virtual Day on Data Science: November 20th, 2013
http://www.redclara. net/indico/evento/DVCdDatos

• Virtual Day on The IGUAL Project: November 13th, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DVLaclo

• Virtual Day on the LACNIC IPv6 Certification Initiative (Certiv6): October 24th, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/ipv6

• Virtual Day on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Latin America: October 23th, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DVEmprendimiento

• 3rd Virtual Day on Autism: September 25th, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DVsindromeasperger

• Virtual Day: The Internet of the Future: July 31st, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/internetdelfuturo

• Virtual Day on Identity Federations: June19th, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DV_FederacionIdentidad

• 2nd Virtual Day on Autism: May 29, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DV_autismo2

• Virtual Day “To the universality of the Open Access”: May 22nd, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/webinario_acceso_abierto

• Virtual Day on Learning Objects: March 13, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/objetos_aprendizaje

• Virtual Day on Autism “The common and the different in the autistic spectrum ": February 27, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/autismo

• Virtual Day on Free Access to Complex Laboratories, Virtual and Tele-operated Laboratories: January 23, 2013
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/laboratorios_virtuales

• Second Virtual Day on e-Culture: December 05, 2012
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DiaVirtualEArteECultura

• Virtual Day on e-Communication: November 21, 2012
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DiaVirtualeComunicacion

• Virtual Day on High-Energy Physics: October 24, 2012
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/DiaVirtualFisicaAltasEnergias

• Virtual Day on e-Health: September 12, 2012
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/diase-salud

• Virtual Day on -Infrastructure: May 8, 2012
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/diase-infraestructura

• Virtual Day on Culture: March 28, 2012
http://www.redclara.net/indico/evento/diasdecultura1