Presentation by Martha Giraldo Jaramillo at TTREN Forum

1. Oct. 10,2011
CKLN - Trinidad and Tobago´s
workshop on appropriation
Martha Giraldo
migiraldo@gmail.com

2. “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

3. “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”

4. CKLN
Caribbean 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.

5. RENATA AND CLARA

6. RENATA
The advanced
collaboration platform
for developing
education, research,
innovation and culture.

7. RENATA Corporation
Private, mixed entity, not for profit, created in May 2007 with the
participation of:
Government:
Government:
RIESCAR
Ministry of Comunications
Ministry of Education
Colciencias
Academy:
• 8 Regional Networks

9. RENATA – IS A MEMBER OF RED CLARA

10. CLARA Partners (ALICE2)
Argentina
Bolivia
Brasil España
Chile Francia
Colombia Italia
Costa Rica Portugal
Ecuador DANTE (UK)
El Salvador
Guatemala
México Cuba
Panamá Honduras
Perú Nicaragua
Uruguay Paraguay
Venezuela

11. RedCLARA June 2011
ALICE2
CLARA
RNP
Porto Alegre
AmLight

12. www.redclara.net

13. RUSSIA (RBNET) Americas
SLOVAKIA (SANET)
Europa-Medio Oriente SLOVENIA (ARNES) RED CLARA
AUSTRIA (ACONET) SPAIN (REDIRIS) CEDIA (Ecuador) Africa
BELGIUM (BELNET) SWEDEN (SUNET) CUDI (Mexico)
CROATIA (CARNET) SWITZERLAND (SWITCH) RAGIE (Guatemala) ALGERIA (CERIST)
CZECH REPUBLIC (CESNET) UNITED KINGDOM (JANET) RAICES (El Salvador)
TURKEY (ULAKBYM) EGYPT (EUN/ENSTIN)
CYPRUS (CYNET) RAAP (Perú) MOROCCO (CNRST)
*CERN
DENMARK (Forskningsnettet) RAU (Uruguay) TUNISIA (RFR)
DANTE (Europe)
ESTONIA (EENET) NORDUnet (Nordic REACCIUN (Venezuela) SOUTH AFRICA (TENET)
FINLAND (FUNET) Countries) RENATA (Colombia)
FRANCE (RENATER) TERENA (Europe) REUNA (Chile)
GERMANY (G-WIN) RETINA (Argentina)
GREECE (GRNET) RNP (Brasil) Asia Central
HUNGARY (HUNGARNET) REDCYT (Panama) ARMENIA (ARENA)
ICELAND (RHNET) GEORGIA (GRENA)
IRELAND (HEANET) Asia-Pacifico INTERNET2 (EEUU) KAZAKHSTAN (KAZRENA)
ISRAEL (IUCC) CANARIE (Canadá) TAJIKISTAN (TARENA)
ITALY (GARR) AUSTRALIA (AAIREP) UZBEKISTAN (UZSCI)
LATVIA (LATNET) CHINA (CERNET,CSTNET,
LITHUANIA (LITNET)
LUXEMBOURG (RESTENA)
NSFCNET)
HONG KONG (HARNET)
RENATA is conected to
MALTA (UNIV. MALTA)
NETHERLANDS (SURFNET)
JAPAN (SINET,WIDE,JGN2)
KOREA (KREONET2)
the world wide
NORWAY (UNINETT)
POLAND (POL-34)
SINGAPORE (SINGAREN) ) academic networks ~90
PHILIPPINES (PREGINET)
PORTUGAL (FCCN) TAIWAN (TANET2,ASNET)
QATAR (QATAR FOUNDATION) THAILAND (UNINET,THAISARN)
ROMANIA (ROEDUNET)

14. 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 …)

15. 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.

16. RENATA´s connected institutions
RIESCAR
UNIRED
RUMBO
RUANA
RADAR
TOTAL
RUAV
RUTA
RUP
Tertiary
Education
26 19 14 12 17 7 15 10 120
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
August 2011

17. RENATA community
International
networks
CORPORACIÓN
RENATA
(Supporting
Appropiation)
Infrastructure:
RENATA network

18. RENATA’s General
Organization Chart Assembly
Auditor
Board of
Directors
Executive
Director
Subdirección
General
Financiera Support
Administrativa
Legal Accounting
issues
Technical Communications Academic
Manager Manager Manager
Comité Comité de Comité
Técnico Comunicaciones Académico

19. GRID
Colombia
BDCOL
Cursos especializados

21. Activities and Servicies

22. Activities/services – Call for proposals
• Financing projects that take advantage of the
Academic Network:
Year # projects
2006 13
2009 27
2010 10
2011 10
• Thematic encounters (2008)
• Dissemination of the financed projects
(www.renata.edu.co)

23. Videoconferencing
Comunicaciones presenciales integradas - MCU- Multi Point Unit Control

24. Virtual Office (webconference tool)

26. 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

27. Academic Training
Capacitaciones CURSO 2009 2010 2011
BDCOL - 40 219 130
Grid Colombia 33 151 24
Curso básico RENATA
(introducción, VC, oficina 80 367 57
virtual)
How to write Competitive
63 --- ---
Research Projects (CLARA)
Curso básico técnico de
140 97 ---
RENATA- Redes regionales
Virtual Objects for learning --- 100 ---

28. 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/iss
ue/archive

29. Dissemination
Services Social Networks
Subscriptions data base
News (web page)
Visits to the Web
Total Transmissions
RENATA en VIVO
Newsletter
Virtual office
(streaming)
Facebook
Youtube
Twitter
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

30. 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

31. CLARA´s
services and projects

32. CLARA´s Services- RedCLARA’s Portal
Looking
for
partners
Funding
Database

33. 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.

34. RedCLARA Communities
1. LACXSER (LAtinoamerican Colaboratory
of eXperimental Software Engineering Re
ComCLARA2011
1. LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst
search) Observatory)
2. ReLANS (Red Latinoamericana de 2. MAPA D2 (Mapa e Programa de artes em danca
Nanotecnología y Sociedad) digital)
3. MAYA (Red de Microorganismos, 3. LACLO (Latin American Community of Learning
Agricultura y Alimentos) Objects
4. MCISur (Manejo Costero Integrado del 4. CoLaBoRa (Comunidad Latinoamericana de
Cono Sur) Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales)
5. LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst 5. FLU‐CAP Programa de Influenza para
Observatory) Centroamérica y Panamá
6. MAPA D2 (Mapa e Programa de artes em 6. TIC en FID Formación Docente Inicial
danca digital) 7. ACHALAI Red internacional de recuperación del
7. LACLO (Latin American Community of patrimonio inmaterial de tradiciones musicales
Learning Objects) 8. Grid Computación Científica y de Alto Rendimiento
8. CoLaBoRa (Comunidad Latinoamericana de
9. ARCU-RED Comunidad de arte y cultura en la red
Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales)
10. IPOL-LA Image Processing Online Latin America
9. URDIMBRE (Research of the impact of 11. CLARISE Comunidad Latinoamericana Abierta
TIC in education) Regional de Investigación Social y Educativa
12. Latin IDE Comunidad Latinoamericana de
ComCLARA2010 Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales
13. CLIC Comunidad Latinoamericana de Investigación y
Construcción de Conocimiento
34

35. ESO Paranal Optical Observatory
• Very Large Telescope located near
Antofagasta in Chile
• VLT Interferometer

36. 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

37. ALMA: Atacama Large Milimeter Array
Vancouver & Other Data
Chajnantor 5000mts
Global High
G-REUNA
Europe, Japan, US Speed Academic
Computing Facilities Networks
San Pedro de Atacama
Storage & Processing

38. 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.

39. 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

40. RENATA PROJECTS FROM OUR CALLS
Financed by Colciencias and
Ministry of Education

41. Distributed processing and
storage capacities
 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.

43. 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)

44. BDCOL

45. 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).

46. “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.

47. “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

48. “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.

49. “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.

50. “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 .

51. “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.

52. “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

53. “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.
RD
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54. “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.

55. “An e-learning Management System (LMS) over a cluster
infrastructure using RENATA”
Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Universidad del Rosario
Sistema 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.

56. “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.

57. 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?.

58. 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

59. 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.asp
x?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)?

60. Some recommendations

61. 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.

62. BUT…
(*) Picture taken from Blue Prints study (Telecom Telematique)
• 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?

63. 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.

64. 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.

65. 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.

66. 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?

67. THANK YOU !
Martha I. Giraldo
migiraldo@