Educational and Industrial Benefits

The ultimate goal of ISTEC is to enhance human resources in the region and thus contribute to the educational development of science and technology by creating partnerships between industries and universities. At ISTEC, we believe that partnerships among industries, universities, international agencies, and government agencies will lead the region to:

• Enhancement/creation of graduate and under-graduate programs that would increase the number of degrees in Ibero-America.
• Dissemination of information technology rapidly throughout Ibero-America in a cost-effective fashion
• Creation of critical mass to address challenging problems
• Distance education programs with Internet course preparation and delivery by ISTEC member institutions, using multimedia production centers and additional telecommunications equipment for course design and production

In addition to the expansion of laboratories, activities in support of the R&D Initiative include training, demonstration of collaborative efforts with other ISTEC initiatives, the development of web-based information and exchange mechanisms to collect and disseminate projects being implemented in the laboratories, the implementation of R&D labs to conduct research in the fields of wireless, networking, DSP, simulation and control, image processing, and VHDL among other topics, the exchange of students and professors, and the dissemination, through the Liblink initiative, of research information. These objectives are executed in coordination with the IT conferences, R&D workshops, Liblink events, and activities that ISTEC previously programs throughout the region. To maximize this effort, ISTEC is also creating a database that will become functional through its web page and it will serve as a portal to analyze the trends of Information Technologies throughout the region. To participate in this initiative please refer to the section on how to become a member.