In 2012 eduroam celebrated its 10th anniversary, at the same time, Brazil celebrated the first implementation of eduroam in Latin America.
ELCIRA aims "to establish the necessary co-ordination and agreements to move towards better integrated mobility services
for researchers by establishing the necessary agreements to deploy a federated eduroam service for Latin
America and to establish an eduroam Exchange Point for Latin American NRENs as well as supporting the
necessary dissemination activities with the NRENs in order to foster its deployment by RedCLARA's partner
NRENs."
eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community.
eduroam allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when visiting other participating institutions by simply opening their laptop.