Archived Workshop Details for years before 2003

ACE Workshops

Fourth workshop about Internet Networks Technology, Merida - Venezuela. The objective of this workshop, sponsored by the Universidad de los Andes in Merida Venezuela, was to identify and establish individual and institutional relationships that can contribute to the development of Internet based national and regional activities. For more information about the workshop and the projects presented at the event please click here.

"Technologies in Education", Bogotá - Colombia
The University Jorge Tadeo Lozano of Bogotá held a workshop to analyze the challenges that education faces regarding the use of new technologies. ISTEC made a presentation and offered its experience as a role model to offer solutions for problems such as the deficiencies of the educational systems in the region through associative mechanisms between universities and the private sector. This event took place on August 28 and included the participation of representatives from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, ALCATEL, Copex Ltda, and IBM.

I Course for the Training of Project Directors for Electronic Thesis and Dissertations ETD -Net -Cartagena - Colombia The I Training Course for Electronic Thesis and Dissertations ETD-Net that will take place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from August 30 to September 1, 2000. The course was organized by UNESCO, the VII CYTED, Universidad de los Andes and ISTEC, whose Library Linkages Initiative seeks to promote easy access to scientific information in the region, especially to thesis and dissertations of master's and doctoral candidates.

Digital Image Processing and Graphics, Lima - Peru
Professors Ed Angel and Ramiro Jordan from the University of New Mexico delivered a 40-hour graduate course at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP). This course is one of a series under a joint PhD program managed by the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) and PUCP. The course consisted on theory and practice in Digital Image Processing, Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization. The course was held at PUCP July 31 to August 5.

CLEI - Mexico City, Mexico During the XXVI Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informatica, September 18-22, in Mexico City, hosted by TEC de Monterrey - Campus Estado de mexico, Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informatica (CLEI) and ISTEC reached a strategic alliance. The agreement will be presented, discussed and voted for its approval by ISTEC members at the X ISTEC General Assembly. The agreement facilitates the exchange of knowledge, joint conferences and workshops, on-line publications, public relations, funding of projects, cross memberships, and R&D efforts in the areas of Computer Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering.

I Jornada de Tecnología "Diseño e Implantación de Estrategias de Negocios en el Gran Mercado Virtual" - Carabobo, Venezuela On October 4 - 6 in Valencia, Carabobo - Venezuela, Professor Willie Moreno from USF gave a presentation on ISTEC latest achievements. The purpose of this workshop analyzes the challenges of the Information Technologies in Latin America.

Global Disaster Information Network - Honolulu, USA
Professor Willie Moreno from the University of South Florida (USF) participated on behalf ISTEC in the Latin America Forum within the Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) in Honolulu, on October 9-11. This forum was organized with the Support of NASA, the Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA) at the College of Public Health at USF. Professor Moreno presented "The Potential Use of the Existing Latin & Ibero America ISTEC Network for Disaster Events".

EduCause - Nashville, USA Sun Microsystems invited ISTEC to present its model to EduCause on October 10 -13. EduCause is the largest fair in the world that integrates all the companies that work in the development of new technologies to improve higher education. As a result of this participation, ISTEC has reached and ambitious strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems that will provide ISTEC academic members the opportunity to access to Sun new developments in networking, system administration, and software, incubating program, equipment purchases, certification and curriculum enhance, e-services and support for ISTEC Information Technologies workshops.

Actualización Permanente Tecnológica por Operación Virtual (APTO) - Guadalajara, Mexico Under the Advance and Continuing Education initiative, the ISTEC Executive Office inaugurated on October 26, a series of courses denominated Actualización Permanente Tecnológica por Operación Virtual (APTO) . This courses will be develop by the Technical Vocational Institute, ISTEC, and el Centro Universitario de la Costa del Sur (CUCSUR) de la Universidad de Guadalajara. These seminars consist of monthly classes transmitted from the industrial or university site and received in the classrooms of Universidad de Guadalajara - CUCSUR. The theme will be state-of-the-art technologies and their applications. This participation will be negotiated on an individual basis with the different agents involved.

The Schargel Consulting Group- Albuquerque, USA The ISTEC Executive Office met with Dr. Franklin P. Schargel to identify collaboration efforts to bring Quality Control in the Education processes. As a result of this meeting, ISTEC with Dr. Schargel will develop an Action Plan for the next two years.

II Training Course of Directors of Project Electronic Thesis and Dissertations ETD-Net - Montevideo, Uruguay, UNESCO Montevideo and the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM), with the sponsor of ISTEC and CYTED will organize the II Training Course of Directors of Project Electronic Thesis and Dissertations ETD-Net to be held in Montevideo, December 7-9. The main goal of this initiative is to create a group of specialists responsible of the dissemination and management of electronic dissertations and thesis for masters and PhD students.

Conference on the "Universalization of Access to Information for Educators in Latin America and the Caribbean" / Center of Regional Cooperation for the Education of Adults in Latin America and the Caribbean (CREFAL) This conference, to be held at the CREFAL headquarters in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, México, will take place on October 9-11, 2000. The purpose is to contribute to the enhancement of the quality of education of youths and adults in the region, and facilitate access to pertinent information for the educators that will be responsible for these educational programs.

Digital Library Linkages Workshops

IberoAmerican Digital Library Joint Project
Held on March 19-21st in Campinas, Brazil.  This event was co-sponsored by NSF & Campinas.  The following results are displayed in video format on RealAudio.
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Primer Taller Mesoamericano y del Caribe de Biblioteca Digital y Educacion a Distancia - Pueblo, Mexico
Held on May 17th, 2002.  Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Tonantzintla.  Co-Sponsored event on digital library developments in the region.

Fundacion Global Democracia y Desarollo.  Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  Digital Libraries workshops and ISTEC consultation visit on April 4th - 6th, 2002.
Trip report by Johann van Reenan
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II Encuentro Sociedad y Technologias de la Informacion.  Santiago, Chile.
December 14, 2001.  Librarian leadership for the development of digital libraries (4 hour workshop) and a talk on "Managing and leading change in the electronic workplace".

EDUC. AR, Consortio de Bibliotecas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
November 15 - 16, 2001.  Consultation visit and talks for EDUC-AR, co sponsored by the Organization of American States and ISTEC.  Topics included: The importance and impact of Open Archive initiatives for digital libraries and "Maximizing science and technology information access through consortia: experience gained from the Alliance for Innovation in Science & Technology Information and ISTEC Library Linkages".

Jornadas ISTEC, Montevideo 2001: Gestion de la Informacion en el siglo XXI.  Montevideo, Uruguay.
ISTEC sponsored digital libraries event including a three day workshop on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
by Ana Pavani

Seminario/Taller Latinoamericano de bibliotecas digitales.  Merida, Venezuela.
ISTEC sponsored digital libraries event.  Topics included a 4 hour workshop on "Decision making and leadership for developing digital libraries" ("Toma de decision y liderazgo para el desarollo de la biblioteca digital"), the Open Archives initiative, and the development of electronic theses and dissertations.

Alliance Meeting - Albuquerque, USA Personnel from ISTEC Executive Office participated in the Alliance bimonthly meeting. The Alliance is a non-profit organization grouping libraries of different academic and scientific centers. The vision is to move from a buyers club to an innovators club, that is, actively participating in the design of future scientific publications and knowledge sharing and management. ISTEC is a member of the Alliance. The meeting was held at the University of New Mexico August 18.

InfoEdu 2000 - San Luis de Potosi, Mexico Personnel from the ISTEC Executive Office, Johann van Reenen and Ramiro Jordan, participated at the "Informacion y Educacion: Agentes para el Desarrollo de la Humanidad" that took place in San Luis de Potosi, Mexico, September 13-15. In this event the ISTEC Digital Library Linkages and ACE Initiatives were presented as well as a talk on Science and Technology Trends and Needs in the region.

Common Market of Knowledge Project, Organization of American States - Washington DC, USA ISTEC Director/Coordinator Library Linkages initiative, Johann Van Reenen, participated in the "Common Market of Knowledge Project" meeting sponsored by Inter-American Agency for Cooperation And Development (IACD), an specialized institution from the Organization of American States'. In this occasion, the National Librarians from Peru, Brazil and Chile were present, as well as the Latin American Reading Room Librarian from the US Library of Congress. This project aims to facilitate the integration process in the region through a project of exchange of information in which National Libraries will play an important role.

First Seminar - Workshop of the Network of Mexican Digital Libraries (REBIDIMEX)- Colima, México The REBIDIMEX-ISTEC digital libraries workshop, that will be held during the INTERFACES event at Universidad de Colima from November 19-21 has the main objective of creating awareness among a select group of politicians and administrators that make important decisions regarding the importance of a cooperative program to create, develop, and maintain digital libraries. The objectives of this seminar-workshop are to propitiate a space to exchange experiences, encourage the development of digital collections and electronic publications, present a new global landscape of general processes associated with the creation of a digital library, establish working alliances in the short term, and train participating personnel in this initiative.

Master in Library Science - University of South Florida (USF)- Tampa, USA The Director/Coordinator of Library Linkages, Johann van Reenen met with the School of Library & Information Science (SLIS) at the University of South Florida (USF) on October 26 to begin negotiations to provide a web-based distance education Masters in Library Science for Latin American students. In addition, Professor van Reenen discussed USF Library potential support for Digital Library Linkages document delivery.

MentorGraphics - Palo Alto, USA As it was posted at the ISTEC Quarterly message, Mentor Graphics absorbed Veribest earlier this year. Because of this merge, ISTEC had to redefine its working relationship with Mentor Graphics to continue providing ISTEC members with the Veribest and Mentor Graphics licenses. In the latest communiqué that Mentor Graphics sent to the Executive Office, it announced that they would continue to provide ISTEC member with Veribest tools. For now, Mentor Graphics will renew and/or deliver the Veribest tools, and it will provide a full package to include the Mentor Graphics devices as well. Please be aware that the students utilizing this technology will require an agreement of confidentiality. The Executive Office will send the necessary forms.

ICIP 2000 - Vancouver, Canada As a result of the research performed by Vinicius Licks for his EECE MS Thesis at UNM, a paper was presented at the International Conference in Image Processing. Vinicius Licks got his BS at the Pontificia Universidade de Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and came to the University of New Mexico Electrical and Computer Engineering Department under the new scholarship program launched by the Chair of the EECE Department Christos Christodoulou in the IX ISTEC General Assembly meeting.

II Simposium Internacional en Tecnologias Inteligentes - Apizaco, Mexico Professor Howard Pollard delivered a short course on Microcontroller Technologies and Applications at the Instituto Tecnologico de Apizaco, October 23-24, during the "II Simposium Internacional en Tecnologias Inteligentes." In addition, the ISTEC Executive Director gave a keynote talk in Science and Technology Reality Check in Latin America, and was designated Honorary Chairman of the Symposium.

Concapan XX - Course of Microcontrollers - San Salvador, El Salvador Professor Howard Pollard from ISTEC Executive Office will teach course of micro controllers using two Motorola micro controller/microprocessor in the Concapan XX to be held on November 21, 2000. The course aims to examine and understand what types of things can be accomplished with these processors. The course will examine the processors and identify the fundamental concepts that do not change as technology advances, and also identify the characteristics that are different in the newer technologies.

Motorola M*CORE Personnel visit to ISTEC Executive Office - Albuquerque, USA Motorola personnel will visit the ISTEC Executive Office November 13-16 to setup the necessary infrastructure for the dissemination of the M*CORE technology to ISTEC academic members. The announcement will be presented at the X ISTEC General Assembly meeting. Once the methodology has been tested and debugged, a similar procedure will be followed to disseminate the DSP technology already licensed to ISTEC.

V Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil This event will take place at the convention center of Hotel Plaza Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 2-5, 2001. The National Council on Neural Networks and the IEEE Council on Neural Networks are the organizers of this event. The V CBRN will consist of workshops in the application of neural networks to the energy financial markets, and in conferences and presentation of technical articles and expositions on products and services.

Electronics and Telecommunication Research & Development Symposium, Colombia, November 1999 ISTEC, the Colombian Association of Engineers, and COLCIENCIAS-Colombia sponsored this event in Bogota to analyze R&D shortcomings such as financing, policies, and partnerships (academia-industry-government) in science and technology in Colombia.

Meeting with CONACyT-Mexico Directors and Microsoft representatives Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March 2000
On this occasion, the regional directors of the CONACyT research centers in Mexico and ISTEC participated in a series of discussions to explore joint ventures including Digital Libraries, Internet 2, and projects with various ISTEC members in that country. Dr. Ramiro Jordan invited CONACyT Directors to participate in several ISTEC initiatives, and review alternatives for financing projects through joint endeavors with other collaborators.

Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Motorola DSP licensing, Cancun, Mexico, March 2000 This was the third in a series of biannual international conferences intended to provide a forum for exchanging recent information, knowledge and experience, and for establishing personal professional contacts. The conference covered several fields of Electronics Engineering from basic scientific theory to industrial applications dealing with research, development, design, technology and applications of electron devices, the theory, analysis, design, and practical implementation of circuits, and the application to systems and to signal processing. The program had an interdisciplinary character and included an ISTEC presentation.

NSF-Argentina and NSF-Chile workshops, Santiago - Buenos Aires, May 2000 The US government through NSF is in the process of creating a network for Education, R&D, among universities and industry in Chile and Argentina. These are similar projects to the ones established with Brazil and Mexico. There is a report where it clearly states that for the US to maintain its competitiveness it needs to establish strategic international networks among academia, industry and government agencies. ISTEC participated in these events, the ISTEC model was clearly a working one and with delivered results. Because of our presentation, several US universities have shown interest in joining ISTEC. These universities are part of the proposal submitted to the Motorola Foundation. This proposal was designed for Motorola to pioneer in the creation of an IT infrastructure for the region.

First Annual Research and Development Summit (AIRDS), Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2000 The AIRDS will take place on October 16-19, 2000. AIRDS will create and expand opportunities for technological research, development, and application (R&D&A) for the Iberoamerican region. The emphasis of this event will be on project partnering and technology transfer among academic institutions centers of excellence, US federal laboratories, industrial institutions, and government agencies. The long-term mission of this summit is to create and sustain partnerships and alliances among participants from the Iberoamerican region, address science and technology needs, and pursue innovative and collaborative ventures.

R&D Andean Summit in Bolivia, March 2001 ISTEC will host another IT Summit for the Andean region and Mercosur in Latin America to Identify a collaboration mechanism to encourage investment in science and technology in the information technology field emphasizing the creation of a human, legal and physical infrastructure that will promote this area's development. The summit will carry forward the Florianopolis S&T Plan for the region presented at the ECOSOC meeting. These events bring together academia, private a public sectors, as well as international organizations.

R&D Mercosur Summit in Rio de Janeiro, July 2001 ISTEC will host a second IT Summit for Ibero- America to Identify a collaboration mechanism to encourage investment in science and technology in the information technology field emphasizing the creation of a human, legal and physical infrastructure that will promote this area's development. This will follow the Florianopolis S&T Plan presented at the ECOSOC meeting.

The CHI 2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seattle Washington, March 31- April 5 2001.
The CHI 2001 Conference On Human Factors in Computing Systems. Much Work is needed to promote research and development in countries, which do not have well-established academic and industrial communities in the area of Computer-Human Interaction (CHI). Some of the outcomes of the conference were:

• raise the awareness of the CHI community about the characteristics and the importance of the large user communities in Latin America,
• increase the participation of researchers from Latin America in defining future directions for HCI research,
• provide a forum for the discussion of recent developments and findings at research centers throughout Latin America,
• foster communication and collaboration among researchers from countries in Latin America.
  

ICEE - Taipei, Taiwan ICEE 2000 is the International Conference on Engineering Education. It was held in Taipei, Taiwan on August 14-16, 2000. Related workshops were carried out at Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. Members of the Executive Office and USB submitted a paper about the Portal Project of ISTEC, which was accepted and presented at the conference. During the International Conference in Engineering Education, a special steering committee meeting took place to analyze the existing format and propose a more dynamic and interactive participation of attendees. NSF organized this meeting and the purpose was the creation of industry-academic networks throughout the world. The ISTEC model was presented and from it we began identifying institutions in Asia (Taiwan, China, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia) and in Eastern European (Poland, Hungary, Check Rep., Rumania). Separate meetings were held with these groups to explore the possibility of replicating the ISTEC model in other parts of the world. In summary, the contacts have been made, the projects explained and all agreed to replicate the ISTEC model.

First Digital Culture Course, Cartagena - Colombia ISTEC and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), along with the Ibero-American Science and Technology Program for Development (CYTED) organized the First Digital Culture Course, in Cartagena, Colombia from August 29 to September 1. The main objective of this course was to transfer knowledge, information, documentation, and accumulated experiences from elite groups to all those who will participate in the week's program.

Prince of Asturias IT Endowed Chair at University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, USA ISTEC Executive Office participated in a ceremony held at UNM, October 21, where the Crown Prince of Spain, Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias announced the establishment of a new endowed chair in information science and technology. The Prince of Asturias Endowed Chair is being funded by US$ 1.5 million from Iberdrola.

Minister of Science and Technology, Anna Birulés, meets with ISTEC - Santa Fe, USA On October 23, ISTEC Executive Director met Anna Birulés, Minister of Science and Technology of Spain. The purpose of this encounter was to establish a strategic alliances between private and public sector, to facilitate international cooperation on science and technology, promote the exchange ideas, organize workshops, sharing of policies, information, and carry out joint projects on research and development.

ICEE/iNNER Steering Committee Meeting - Norway ISTEC Executive Director participated in the ICEE/iNEER steering committee meetings, October 1-4, to organize ICEE-2001 conference in Oslo, Norway, in August 2001. At this opportunity the idea of organizing similar consortiums in Asia and Central Europe was further explored. Agreements were reached to have an organizing meeting in Korea in March 20001 for the Asia network, and a second meeting in Poland or Czech Republic in May 2001 for the Central European network. ISTEC will collaborate in the creation of both networks.

Designing for the Human Experience: The Evolution of the Internet and Society - Boston, USA ISTEC Executive Director participated in the workshop organized by Nortel Networks, October 16-18, to brainstorm on the future of the Internet. Participants came from all over the world and from different sectors; academia, industry, NGOs, and others. Discussions were held around three topic areas as they relate to societal implications, the human experience and technology: Fidelity, Ubiquity, and Simplicity.

Primer Taller Latinoamericano y del Caribe sobre Tecnologías de la Informacion y Comunicación (LACTIC-2000) - Isla de Margarita, Venezuela ISTEC has been invited to participate in the Primer Taller Latinoamericano y del Caribe sobre Tecnologías de la Informacion y Comunicacion (LACTIC-2000), November 9-11. A recent note received indicates that the event has been moved to November 27-28. This event has been organized as a result of the commitments agreed by Latin American countries during the ECOSOC sponsored meetings in Florianopolis and New York in which ISTEC participated. The topics to be addressed are Education, Health, Production, and Trade, under the framework of the Information Society.

Segundo Congreso Internacional de Tecnología y Politica de Investigación Científica - Cuernavaca, Mexico Motorola and ISTEC organize the "Segundo Congreso Internacional de Tecnología y Politica de Investigación Científica" that will be held at Hacienda Cortez, Cuernavaca on November 28-29. This event aims to promote the technological advancement in Mexico, create a forum for the analysis of the science and technology for the society, and to promote the investment in technology in the entire sectors of the economy.

EuroLat-IS - Santiago, Chile ISTEC will participate in the Third EUROLAT-IS Thematic Workshop to be held in Santiago de Chile, on December 11-13. EUROLAT-IS is a thematic network supported by the European Commission and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Its main objective is to stimulate Euro-Latin American collaboration in areas of application of Information Society Technologies, boosting a wide number of concrete actions undertaken by consortia of European and Latin American companies, universities and other institutions, in areas of importance for the social and economic development in Latin America. The Third EUROLAT-IS Thematic Workshop is devoted to "Information Society Technologies in Education and Trainig", action line defined as a research and development priority in the IST 2000 Workprogramme. The Workshop will take place in the Auditorio Gorbea, Escuela de Ingeniería, Universidad de Chile, Beauchef 850, Santiago de Chile. (www.eurolatis.upm.es)

ECOSOC-Latin-America Forum on IT for Development, Florianopolis, Brazil, June 2000 ISTEC presented to all the government delegations of the region. The purpose of the meeting was to identify and develop a regional plan on science and technology for the region. This plan was later presented at the United Nations ECOSOC summit. The only region in the world with a clear action plan was Latin America. ISTEC actively participated in the development of this plan. This plan is the framework for the next 4 years.

Participation in the United Nations' ECOSOC, New York, June 2000 The United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) incorporated the area of Science and Technology as a priority criterion for sustainable growth and development. ISTEC participated in order to share its experience and collaborate in shaping a strategy that can be exported to other regions of the globe. Organizations that participated at this event aside from all governments, were industry such as Nokia, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Dell, and Motorola, as well as organizations like the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and others. The overall agreement is that IT is the driving force for development. Also, the Inter-American Development Bank made a public commitment to support the Florianopolis Plan.

ECOSOC-Latin-America Forum on IT for Development, Florianopolis, Brazil, June 2000 ISTEC presented to all the government delegations of the region. The purpose of the meeting was to identify and develop a regional plan on science and technology for the region. This plan was later presented at the United Nations ECOSOC summit. The only region in the world with a clear action plan was Latin America. ISTEC actively participated in the development of this plan. This plan is the framework for the next 4 years.

Meeting with the Organization of American States (OAS), June 2000 Ramiro Jordán met with Cesar Gaviria, Secretary General of the OAS, and Ronald Scheman, Executive Director for the Agency for Interamerican Cooperation and Development to strengthen existing alliances and to plan future joint endeavors, such as the coordination of several IT hemispheric summits. Additionally, the OAS has supported projects such as the development of the distributed database, the Science and Technology Portal for Iberoamerica (STEP), and the coordination of various international workshops in the areas of digital libraries and research and development.

VII Foro Bolívar for the Latin American Enterprise, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 2000 On July 11-13 ISTEC participated in the annual Foro Bolivar organized by the Interamerican Development Bank to offer business opportunities to small and medium enterprises in Latin America. This forum also provided researchers and professors an opportunity to present their projects and receive eventual support from participating entities. Meetings with the US Embassy personnel to inform them of ISTEC activities with Spain and Latin-America. Meeting with Telefonica officials to invite them to join ISTEC and explore the possibility of Telefonica to provide a backbone to ISTEC institutions, this falls under the Los Libertadores Initiative.