<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2" color="#000000" face="Verdana"><font size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Volume 4, Issue 4 </font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">September 30, 2008</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Western Hemisphere Research and Education Networks (WHREN)-Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) Report summarizes activities from participating networks. The WHREN-LILA Report is published under National Science Foundation (NSF) Award # 0441095 and Academic Network at São Paulo (ANSP) award Projeto Fapesp no. 04/14414-2.</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">September 2008 Issue: </font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1. WHREN-LILA Activities</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2. FIU-CIARA Activities </font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3. AMPATH Activities</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4. CENIC Activities</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">5. Pacific Wave Activities<br></font></font><font size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">6. AtlanticWave Activities</font></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">7. CUDI Activities </font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">8. CLARA Activities </font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">9. RNP Activities</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">10. ANSP/NARA Activities </font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION</font></font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="">1. WHREN-LILA Activities</b></font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">IPv6 is enabled on WHREN-LILA connections.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">RedCLARA, RNP, ANSP, REUNA and others have IPv6 enabled on their networks.</font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As part of the WHREN collaboration, the CLARA NOC shall provide NOC services for the WHREN-LILA circuits.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Indiana University Global NOC provides NOC services for the WHREN-LILA circuits.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The CLARA NOC services will augment information by which the WHREN collaboration can proactively monitor and manage the WHREN-LILA links and correlate data from multiple resources.<br><br>For more information about WHREN-LILA, visit <a href="http://www.whren-lila.net" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.whren-lila.net">http://www.whren-lila.net</a><br></font></div> <div class="bodytext" style=""><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style=""><br>2. FIU-CIARA Activities</b></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Upcoming events:</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">October 13th, 2008 the Caribbean Emerging R&E Networks Special <br> Interest Group will meet in the afternoon at the I2 Members Meeting.<br><br> October 20-22nd Chinese American Networking Symposium hosted by <br> Indiana University. </font> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Heidi is on the program committee. Sessions will cover diverse networking subjects from NOC services, Security, Monitoring, IPv6, and Global e-Science Applications including <br> Hurricane Mitigation (Global CyberBridges Project), Weather Monitoring, Lake Ecosystems and Epidemiology, and e-VLBI radio astronomy, as well as optical astronomy.<br style=""><br style=""></font> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The UltraLight / PLaNetS Networking and Data Management Tutorial is December 2<sup>, </sup>2008.</font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about FIU-CIARA, please visit: <a href="http://www.ciara.fiu.edu/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.ciara.fiu.edu/">http://www.ciara.fiu.edu</a></font> </div> <div class="bodytext" style=""><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style=""><br>3. AMPATH Activities</b></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) connects to the AMPATH International Exchange Point.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This connection will allow UVI to participate in the U.S. R&E and international networking communities to augment its programs of science and education research.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For example, the UVI marine sciences graduate program's research on coral reef science will provide scientists and students with more options to utilize network-aware tools for data intensive science.<br><br>For more information about AMPATH, please visit <a href="http://www.ampath.net" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.ampath.net">http://www.ampath.net</a><br> </font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="bodytext" style=""><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="">4. CENIC Activities</b></font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">CENIC CEO Jim Dolgonas was honored to speak before the Mexican <a href="http://www.diputados.gob.mx/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.diputados.gob.mx/">Chamber of Deputies</a>, the Mexican House of Representatives, as a participant in a forum entitled <a href="http://neural3.ugto.mx/rnc/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://neural3.ugto.mx/rnc/">Red Nacional del Conocimiento: Estrategia Nacional para la Conectividad</a> (A National Knowledge Network: A National Strategy for Connectivity). The forum took place on August 26, 2008 at the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro in Mexico City, home of the Chamber of Deputies, one of the two houses of the Mexican Congress of the Union.<br><br> </font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Distinguished participants included, among others, the former President of the Chamber of Deputies Directive Board Ruth Zavaleta Salgado, President of the Council of Political Coordination Héctor Larios Córdova, President of the Special Commission for the Promotion of Mexican Digital Access Antonio Vega Corona, Undersecretary for Communications of the Ministry of Communications and Transport Rafael Noel del Villar Alrich, Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission for the Government of India Sam Pitroda, and Secretary-General of ANUIES (<a href="http://www.anuies.mx/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.anuies.mx/">National Association of Universities and Institutes of Higher Learning</a>) Rafael López Castañares. Panels in state and federal-level infrastructure as well as university cooperation featured yet more luminaries in the realm of Mexican high-performance networking.<br><br> </font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jim Dolgonas's presentation, <a href="http://www.cenic.org/publications/presentations/MX_JD_082508.pdf" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.cenic.org/publications/presentations/MX_JD_082508.pdf">Knowledge Networking: Exploiting California's Experience</a>, discussed the creation and governance of CENIC and its funding and fee structure, the importance of broadband networking as a major motivator of economic and research-based vigor, and the value of using a separate, fiber-based network to serve the needs of higher education and research. The presentation also included an excellent sample of the types of international research collaborations made possible by high-performance networking, as well as discussing the value of such a network to intra-Mexican efforts.<br><br> </font></div> <div class="bodytext" style=""><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read full article at: <a href="http://www.cenic.org/publications/cenictoday/Aug08_CT.html" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.cenic.org/publications/cenictoday/Aug08_CT.html">http://www.cenic.org/publications/cenictoday/Aug08_CT.html</a><br><br></font></div> <div class="bodytext" style=""><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about CENIC, visit <a href="http://www.cenic.org" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.cenic.org">http://www.cenic.org</a><br><br></font></div> <div class="bodytext" style=""><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="">5. Pacific Wave Activities</b></font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jacqueline Brown and John Silvester attended the APAN 26: Sustainable Networking meeting held in Queenstown, New Zealand August 4-8, 2008. There John discussed with representatives from the AARNet network how to provision dynamic circuit connectivity from AARNet to Internet2 and National Lambda Rail (NLR) through Pacific Wave. The goal is to have a proof of concept demonstration by the end of 2008.<br><br> At CENIC's XD Workshop John Silvester facilitated a discussion of the "Lessons Learned" during the Monday, September 15, 2008 demonstrations and gave a presentation entitled on "eResearch Collaboration Across the Pacific" September 16, 2008 which showcased the capabilties for international collaborations using Pacific Wave and other international R&E resources.<br><br> Larry Smarr of CalIT2 is going to Australia for a whirlwind tour to demonstrate and promote Optiputer and Optiportal applications which is anticipated to increase use of the Translight/Pacific Wave connections in the near future.<br><br> Pacific Northwest Gigapop and the University of Washington will be hosting the upcoming 8th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop in Seattle, Washington October 1-2, 2008 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center.<br><br> Pacific Wave engineers and Supercomputing 2008 (SC08) conference organizers are working on installing a connection between the conference site in Austin, Texas and Pacific Wave for the upcoming November Conference.<br><br> For more information see the Pacific Wave website at <a href="http://www.pacificwave.net/" mce_href="http://www.pacificwave.net/" target="_blank">www.pacificwave.net</a></font> </div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style=""><br>6. AtlanticWave Activities</b></font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On September 9, 2008, the Arecibo antenna achieved the first eVLBI fringes over the Arecibo-EVN baseline achieving throughput of a data bandwidth of 512 megabits per second.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"The 256Mbps demonstration last May at the TERENA conference placed Puerto Rico firmly on the worldwide eVLBI map, the latest one shows that we truly have made the bigger league, said Dr. Arun Venkataraman, Head, Computer Department, NAIC/Arecibo Observatory."</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>AtlanticWave is providing a layer2 service for Arecibo to participate in e-VLBI experiments with the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE), where the correlation takes place of the data streams that are collected from the radio antennas of the experiment.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The data stream from Arecibo utilizes the IRNC link for Translight/Starlight to reach Europe.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A goal of AtlanticWave is to make use of IRNC links for international science collaboration.</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Extending layer 2 services to JIVE is made possible through collaboration with Translight/StarLight, SurfNet and the use of CaveWave.</font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>AtlanticWave will be available for Super Computing 2008 events. Groups interested in using AtlanticWave for SC08 activities (Nov. 15-21, 2008, in Austin, Texas) should contact the AtlanticWave engineering team with their questions and requirements by sending email to the following address:</font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">request@atlanticwave.net</font></div> <div class="bodytext"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>For more information on the conference, please see <a href="http://sc08.supercomputing.org/index.php%3E." target="_blank" mce_href="http://sc08.supercomputing.org/index.php%3E.">http://sc08.supercomputing.org/index.php</a> <br><br>For more information on the AtlanticWave, please see <a href="http://www.atlanticwave.net%3E" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.atlanticwave.net%3E">http://www.atlanticwave.net</a><br><br></font></div> <div class="bodytext" style=""><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="">7. CUDI Activities</b></font></div> <div class="estilo27"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As a result of the Call-CUDI SUN, the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos and the Universidad Veracruzana now house two laboratories that consist of a T-1000 server to provide services to 20 terminals SunRay2. These terminals will function as access points and network consulting and represent an opportunity for community members CUDI increase its infrastructure and improve the services they provide to their users. </font></div> <div class="estilo27"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Most of the terminals are in remote facilities or institutions from the servers in order to test the technology of the IP networks and linking Internet2. The server has to provide access to all terminals in the country, employing load balancing and is subject to the bandwidth available to universities for I2. </font></div> <div class="estilo27"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>The institutions that will share the servers are: </font></div> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font class="google-src-text" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">La Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas</font> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font class="google-src-text" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">La Universidad de Guadalajara</font> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font class="google-src-text" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">La Universidad de Sonora</font> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font class="google-src-text" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="">La Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo</font></font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font class="google-src-text" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="">La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México</font></font><font style="" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></li></ul> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read full article at: <a href="http://www.cudi.edu.mx/boletin/2008/09_boletin_septiembre.html" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.cudi.edu.mx/boletin/2008/09_boletin_septiembre.html">http://www.cudi.edu.mx/boletin/2008/09_boletin_septiembre.html</a></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>For more information about CUDI, visit <a href="http://www.cudi.edu.mx/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.cudi.edu.mx/">http://www.cudi.edu.mx</a></font> </div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="">8. CLARA Activities </b><br>The <a href="http://www.programafrida.net/en/" mce_href="http://www.programafrida.net/en/" target="_blank">Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean - FRIDA</a> - announces the opening of its 2008 Summons (<a href="http://www.programafrida.net/" mce_href="http://www.programafrida.net/" target="_blank">www.programafrida.net</a>) and invites regional research organizations to present projects seeking to be financed through the fund.</font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The form and framework for project proposals are available at the FRIDA website under <a href="http://www.programafrida.net/en/tipos_de_apoyo.html" mce_href="http://www.programafrida.net/en/tipos_de_apoyo.html" target="_blank">"Types of support/ 2008 call"</a>. Those organizations interested in applying to receive support from FRIDA must email their proposal to <a onclick="return true;Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=convocatoria2008%40programafrida.net');; return false;" href="mailto:convocatoria2008@programafrida.net" _onclick="return true;Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=convocatoria2008%40programafrida.net');; return false;" target="_blank" mce_onclick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=convocatoria2008%40programafrida.net');; return false;">convocatoria2008@programafrida.net</a> by August 15, 2008 before 19:00 UTC. FRIDA will start notifying the chosen proposals on November 14 2008.</font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FRIDA is a regional initiative made up by the contributions of CEA/ IDRC (Connectivity and Equity in the Americas/ International Development Research Center), the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA), the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) which is also the manager of the Program.</font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FRIDA operates as fund of competitive projects providing financial support to projects developed by regional research teams through small grants. Projects are selected in an annual summons.</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/canal1.shtml?http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/nuevoeng.shtml?AA_SL_Session=bcfe653e2e911bb67295601b08ff28d1&x=12642" target="_blank" mce_href="http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/canal1.shtml?http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/nuevoeng.shtml?AA_SL_Session=bcfe653e2e911bb67295601b08ff28d1&x=12642"></a><a href="http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/canal1.shtml?" target="_blank" mce_href="http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/canal1.shtml?">http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/canal1.shtml?</a><a href="http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/nuevoeng.shtml?AA_SL_Session=bcfe653e2e911bb67295601b08ff28d1&x=12642" target="_blank" mce_href="http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/nuevoeng.shtml?AA_SL_Session=bcfe653e2e911bb67295601b08ff28d1&x=12642">http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/nuevoeng.shtml?AA_SL_Session=bcfe653e2e911bb67295601b08ff28d1&x=12642</a></font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about CLARA, visit <a href="http://www.redclara.net/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.redclara.net/">http://www.redclara.net</a></font> </div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="">9. RNP Activities</b></font><br></div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> <div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On August 28 & 29, the Workshop on Platforms II cryptography to Infrastructure Public Key and Applications was held in Florianopolis (SC). The event, organized by the Computer Security Laboratory (LabSEC) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), was conducted by the Brazilian Chamber of Electronic Commerce (Camara-e.net) and had support from the National Network of Education and Research (RNP), The National Institute of Information Technology (ITI), the Institute of Real Estate Registry of Brazil (IRIB) and the College of Notaries Brazil (CNB-SP). Two weeks prior, in Rio de Janeiro, the RNP hosted the inaugural meeting of its two experimental new services: <a href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919-coord01.html&usg=ALkJrhiuIlX9I5bSOnCaWjMQaNyv6L8Odw" target="_blank" mce_href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919-coord01.html&usg=ALkJrhiuIlX9I5bSOnCaWjMQaNyv6L8Odw">Infrastructure of keys for the Public Education (ICP-EDU) and</a> <a href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919-coord02.html&usg=ALkJrhh1FwuTuEXKWh01J84PpezKSX4hhA" target="_blank" mce_href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919-coord02.html&usg=ALkJrhh1FwuTuEXKWh01J84PpezKSX4hhA">Academic Community Federica (CAFE).</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919-coord02.html&usg=ALkJrhh1FwuTuEXKWh01J84PpezKSX4hhA" target="_blank" mce_href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919-coord02.html&usg=ALkJrhh1FwuTuEXKWh01J84PpezKSX4hhA"><br></a></font> </div> <div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The workshop in Florianopolis consisted of lectures, panels and demonstrations of projects LabSEC and its partners who represented the RNP, Iara Machado, and the Department of Innovation. Two lectures were given on the new experimental services of the organization: Infrastructure Public Key for Education and Research (ICP-EDU) and Academic Community Federica (CAFE). </font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To see the full program of lectures and demonstrations during the workshop, visit: <a href="http://www.labsec.ufsc.br/arquivos/cronograma.pdf" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.labsec.ufsc.br/arquivos/cronograma.pdf">http://www.labsec.ufsc.br/arquivos/cronograma.pdf</a>. </font></div><div style=""><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Read full article at <a href="http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919.html" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919.html">http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2008/not-080919.html</a><br><br></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about RNP, visit <a href="http://www.rnp.br/en/index.php" mce_href="http://www.rnp.br/en/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.rnp.br/en/index.php</a></font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="">10. ANSP/NARA Activities</b></font><br></div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">During the 60<sup>th</sup> Meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), held at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), the TIDIA Ae (Electronic Learning) project, funded by FAPESP, was presented to event participants. They got to view the initial version of the environment management learning and collaborative research project.</font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The TIDIA-Ae project brings together more than 150 researchers from 20 laboratories of the leading universities in the state of Sao Paulo, and aims to promote training of human resources and scientific and technological production, applied to education, to help the institutions of education and research.</font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Version 1.1 of the Ae environment offers its users tools for managing courses and collaborative projects, as the repository of information and interactivity between participants. Using Ae, the user can keep a personal profile, a shared agenda, define and monitor the plan of study for each subject or the plan of project activities, communicate with the participants through tools of interaction, provide and share content teaching and technical.</font></div> <br><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read full article at <a href="http://www.nara.org.br/central-de-noticias/tidia-ae-lanca-nova-plataforma-de-e-learning/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.nara.org.br/central-de-noticias/tidia-ae-lanca-nova-plataforma-de-e-learning/">http://www.nara.org.br/central-de-noticias/tidia-ae-lanca-nova-plataforma-de-e-learning/</a></font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information on ANSP/NARA, visit their website at <a href="http://www.nara.org.br/" mce_href="http://www.nara.org.br/" target="_blank">http://www.nara.org.br/</a></font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The WHREN-LILA newsletter is intended to provide useful, up-to-date information about WHREN-LILA through short articles with web links and email addresses. 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